
Walls make better ones!
Two observations about this photo montage, which I just spotted over at Daylife:
#1: Will our purported Commander-in-Chief ever actually find the time between sightseeing to actually make the hard decisions it takes to, well, "Command" the military he supposedly runs?
And #2: It's' [...]
In a word, cool:
There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday.
“Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference. “And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount.”
The [...]
Independent Journal
Saturday, November 10, 1787
[John Jay ]
To the People of the State of New York:
QUEEN ANNE, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the Union then forming between England and Scotland, [...]
Rob Farley has an interesting observation about the alleged threat of a future Iranian nuclear weapon against Israel - that is, if Israel has such a kick-ass missile defense system, exactly what does Israel's government have to worry about a single Iranian nuke? [...]
Party and campaign operations folks are telling me this morning that turnout in traditionally Republican-leaning precincts in Prince William County are ranging in the 8-9% range, while Democrat-leaning precincts are hovering in the 3-4% range. Although I expect this gap to narrow throughout the day, the gap should widen back [...]
Independent Journal
Saturday, November 3, 1787
[John Jay]
To the People of the State of New York:
IT IS not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and well-informed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere for many years in an erroneous [...]
I don't usually comment on a blog post that comments on another blog post, but I believe Matt Yglesias hits on an important issue in his observations on Andrew Exum's interview with Washington Post reporter and author Greg Jaffe.
Greg Jaffe, speaking to [...]