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A Strike on Syria is a Legacy of the Iraq War 27 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
It strikes me that the entire Red Line business, which has now painted the president into a corner over Syria, is a direct result of US policy in the post-9/11 period in which WMD usage became a centr...
More Evidence Action on Syria is Coming 27 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
The BBC just issued a breaking news item: UK Parliament recalled over Syria. Given that legislatures are typically recalled for the purpose of doing something rather than noting, one suspects that t...
Limited Strikes, Limited Utility, Unlimited Fallout 27 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective. As Ken Dilanian notes in a page 1 analysis in the LA Times, it’s not as if there isn’t ...
United States Knew Saddam Was Using Chemical Weapons Against Iran 27 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
On the same day the United States all but promised military retaliation against Syria for chemical weapons strikes that “should shock the conscience of the world,” constitute “a moral obscenity” and a...
Of Course You Realize This Means War 27 Aug 2013 | 02:37 pm
Yesterday morning, I read the tea leaves and noted that Syria intervention looks inevitable. Yesterday afternoon, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a speech which seemed to confirm that point. ...
President Gerald Ford Testifies on Squeaky Fromme Assassination Attempt 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
The Sacramento Bee has released this remarkable video of President Gerald Ford testifying about the assassination attempt by Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme. The testimony itself is only mildly interesting...
Monkey Cage Moving to Washington Post 27 Aug 2013 | 01:48 pm
John Sides announced yesterday that his award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post: After 5+ years of writing and growing as an ind...
Republican Congressman Vows Push To Fix Voting Rights Act 27 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner made some news today when he said that he intended to make an effort to address the problems in the Voting Rights Act that caused the Supreme Court to throw out the pre-c...
Greece May Need More Aid 26 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
It’s been nearly a year since the economic crisis in Greece reared its ugly head, but there are signs now that the nation may need to turn to Europe (read, mostly Germany) for more aid in the near fut...
On Being “Natural Born” 26 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
Garrett Epps has a nice piece over at The Atlantic on the “natural born citizen” clause in the constitution: Would the Founders Have Cared Where Ted Cruz Was Born? The bottom line, as most know: th...
