- Bravery
- "In principle everything except the explosive can be recycled..."
- A proxy for fear
- $1.87
- Flowers in the garden, perhaps
- Say more, show less
- Our next president
- Election day
- The bad religion of epidemic disease
- Spread the wealth for victory
- Third party and beyond
- Taking the chisel to yourself
- What's the socialists' real plan for America?
- Colin Powell's endorsement
- Failure to self regulate
- The specter of socialism in "real America"
- Narrowing your base
- An IP strike
- The party of xenophobia
- November 4, 2008 - General election recommendations and reasons
- Proposition 3: Children's Hospital Bond Act - recommend No
- Proposition 12: Veterans' Bond Act - recommend Yes
- Proposition 9: Victims' Rights and Parole - recommend No
- Proposition 8 - Elimation of Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. - recommend No
- Proposition 6: Police and Law Enforcement Funding. - recommend No
- Vets for Freedom, but not for accuracy or support for veterans
- Nobelists fighting diseases
- Proposition 7: Renewable Energy Rule Restructuring - recommend No
- Proposition 11: Redistricting - recommend No
- Proposition 10: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Subsidy - recommend No
- Rock the vote, or perhaps the Ukraine
- Proposition 5: Nonviolent Drug Offenses. Sentencing, Parole and Rehab - recommend Yes
- Tan Nguyen indicted
- Proposition 4: Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Abortion - recommend No
- Proposition 2: Standards for Confining Farm Animals - recommend No
- Proposition 1A: High-Speed Rail - recommend No
- November 4, 2008 - General election, twelve propositions
- Flavors of "no"
- A quick correction
- Missed that last hurdle
- McCain urged us not to fund our troops
- Privatizing wealth, publicizing risk
- Or you could, you know, pay taxes
- I just can't imagine anything bad ever happening to me
- Letter to a fallen candidate
- Managing our minerals
- Try sticking to the ethical means
- That's because it IS patriotic, you morons
- "You can't say anything."
- The reason to vote for John McCain
- Six decades and change
- New Zealand, protector of Chinese infants
- The Guardian talks about Rath and the rest
- "No pogroms"
- Whoring his way into office
- Late homework is the same as no homework, Mr. Bush
- Even less murder in the world
- "No financial loss" - adrift in the Interior
- Craig Ferguson on voting
- A unique role
- GAO: Another layer of procurement failure
- The neo-cons and al Qaeda - sharing in their little dream books
- Self interest may win out
- In France, it's a corporation
- Archbishop Tutu has it
- Your tax dollars at work
- What a NATO membership means
- One Cyprus?
- It's that maverick honesty that we appreciate
- Shot while resisting arrest
- Merck primes the pump
- Fraying around the edges
- It's the seventies again
- Filling out your dance card in Europe
- Because it's never fascist to blame a minority
- Fancy a trip to Libya?
- Not so much peacekeeping as warstopping
- Recent links in the conflict chain
- Why are Russian tanks in Georgia?
- Georgia asks China for help with Russia
- Over the line
- Was there something happening today?
- War, more or less
- Illustrating the point
- That was short
- No guns, more talking
- Or they could just shoot at each other some more
- WWSD? Talk to Kopola, apparently
- What would Soslan do?
- Once more, from Rwanda to France
- Up tempo in Xinjiang
- One of the new millennium's little wars continues
- It's that conservative self reliance
- Suppose he's got a pointed stick?
- You see, son, you're just not stabbing in the right place
- Listening to the people on the ground
- GAO - Realistic planning yields real weapons
- Manufacturing knife culture in the UK
- The carbon leans to the East
- "...proved to be largely incorrect..."
- Stable and harmonious, or perhaps simply co-prosperous
- Power creep in city hall
- Fuel efficiency -- you may be doing it wrong
- Tegul saulė Lietuvoj tamsumas prašalina
- This is grim, this will be grim
- South Africa declines to let you kill its citizens
- It's sort of like auditing the poor
- Davis resigns as 42 days passes, and Gitmo is not a closed book
- Clothing is scary, and so forth
- June 3, 2008 -- Primary elections, and two propositions
- Proposition 99: Limiting Eminent Domain - recommend Yes
- Proposition 98: Removing Rent Control - recommend No
- KBR taking on water
- Persistence to remove persistents
- Symptomatic, perhaps
- A multirole, supersonic copyright violation
- KBR, a leading global fraud services company
- Who debunks Zionist conspiracy myths? That's right, al Qaeda.
- Israel receives, gives, and keeps
- Bounceback on BAE
- Another relay, after a fashion
- "...one of the most important principles is not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries"
- Splash one UAV, add more international strife
- Lobbying for Israel's other best interests
- Russian peak oil, sort of
- Another potential positive feedback loop from global warming
- Risk analysis fails in the UK, and BAE walks
- You are not the Chinese people
- Did Gavin Newsom do an end run around China?
- Writing a letter about wasteful privatization
- GAO - Outsourcing to contractors costs us money
- Strictly untrue
- You're all tied to us
- Returning to the relay
- Xinhua, an entirely legitimate news source
- An incomplete relay in Paris
- An Olympic legacy, after a fashion
- I wouldn't worry about it until they appoint someone named Alexander
- GAO: All the waste uranium may be worth something again
- Is this our fault?
- A judge rules on the plausibility of history
- More French troops to some part of Afghanistan
- One in four
- Tribalism rears its head (right?)
- Good times and a free hand for the PRC
- Look at them, not at me
- If I wish very hard, it becomes true
- Those left behind
- Paisley out
- Zimbabwe's death spiral
- Death detained
- Blood in the black garden
- A message and maybe another message
- The British can do these kinds of things right, but we seem to suck at it
- Reciprocal collective punishment all 'round
- Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco
- Good for us
- Pragmatism and optimism in California budgeting
- Banning the elements of persistent warfare
- WMD documents -- UK edition
- Identity from nationality, or nationality from identity?
- Sixty years later, it's still a crime
- All types needed
- If it's worth doing, it's worth going to jail for it
- This might have happened earlier
- What you must do and what you can't do with NIH money
- Don't be that person
- Kansas, seriously?
- Congratulations on your reboot -- here's some cash
- "Not only for the lives of the people, but also for the animals..."
- Super Tuesday
- The best part of your government at work
- Iran roundup - gas, atoms, executions, and apostasy
- The FBI's Cambodian office
- One of these things is, sadly, not like the others
- Pity the Kremlin
- Manley lays down some groundrules for Canada in Afghanistan
- 2008 Primary election - proposition roundup
- Proposition 94, Proposition 95, Proposition 96, Proposition 97 - Amending Southern California Indian Gaming rules - recommend No
- Proposition 93: Revising Term Limits - recommend No
- Proposition 92: Community Colleges. Funding. Governance. - recommend No
- Proposition 91: Transportation Funding Protection - recommend No
- Election time: February 5, 2008
- Sign of the times
- As a reminder...
- GAO - More money and more minorities in higher education
- A little bit more Lincoln
- Listening to the widsom of the past
- GAO - Who's helping in Iraq, part II
- When you hammer out a new constitution, some parts may fall off
- Mike Huckabee, logistics masters
- On the top of your list, if you're in Western Sahara
- GAO: Housing is one way we fail our veterans
- One stitch across the divide
- NATO is willing to precision bomb your swords back into plowshares
- Fernando Trapero and Raul Centeno
- Going home, for one reason or another
- Notes from the NIE
- The most expensive way to feel special
- That's quite a few zeroes
- Disrespect
- The Vatican does what it does in Iraq
- Shades of Tan Nguyen in Australia
- Through the winnowing lens of time and disease
- GAO - UN reforms move ahead in fits and starts
- Waiting for a trend line to form
- Our modern medicine
- The eighth sues the first
- GAO - DOT drug testing can be spoofed
- Oh, and again with tainted products
- With our people there...
- Sole sourcing - bad for procurement, bad for intelligence
- Beating the war drum bloody
- Downstream effects
- We are a friendly folk
- So maybe you don't travel to Indonesia
- Running low on places to stand
- Looking into the difficult rights
- Public health for a buck a day
- The ungoverned blue
- It must be impossibly good
- As Saint Anne leaves us
- Burning
- The big picture
- Rounding up suspects as needed
- What little you had, you have no more
- Risk and pragmatism
- The other side of Burma
- Ethnicity versus geography
- Bleeding from the head
- Okinawans protest historical revisions in Japan
- That's not an answer
- Hint: Don't do this
- That's not really the way it works
- Killing people
- Metal detector wins
- Still a proxy war, even with dead advisors
- Anatomy of a bio-accident
- GAO -- Reselling magnetic tapes is probably safe
- More Putin-era BS
- Civilian deaths in Iraq
- No more Blackwater in Iraq
- The free market of air defenses
- Putin's chain of custody
- Blood poppies
- GAO: Calling out Bush on Iraq's progress -- sectarian violence has not decreased
- GAO -- Get your Earned Income Tax Credit earlier
- American science slipping? Maybe, maybe not
- Sourcing Marburg
- GAO: Be more realistic when you plan
- Do learn your history, Mr. Bush
- There's honestly no such thing as a friendly intelligence agency
- HIV enters a new stage in China
- On the 18th time around, Thai voters say "maybe"
- Old home week
- Letter to the president: You obviously don't believe it's a real war
- Stasis
- GAO: Fewer sensitive military items are being sold to the public
- This may have public health consequences
- Fact checking, people. Fact checking.
- PEPFAR, pledges, and harm enhancement
- Following Lt. Col. Yingling's advice
- BAE expands in the States
- Toward a better world
- Changing the zero sum
- It's just a couple orders of magnitude
- GAO - Slacking off in defense procurement costs us money
- Sixteen more from Gitmo to Saudia Arabia
- Revoking a different sort of amnesty
- No American, part II
- GAO - Alien detention system has some phone issues
- "No American wants to allow a single soldier or Marine to be deployed without meeting the military's standard of readiness."
- Lieberman, Bush apologist and habitual misrepresenter
- Global...something on...something
- Change, just like that
- Katrina haunts KBR
- Alan Johnston free
- I applaud your support for immorality
- Grim economics of democracy in Africa
- Disease, big and small
- Lugar and Voinovich call for an exit
- One fuel tank away from a riot
- Culture and chaos
- People on the ground can make it real
- AIDS - what's special about Africa?
- You've heard about this one...
- Who do we pick as the world's policeman?
- No longer a simple gesture
- Hedge like mad
- Taking a cue from Iran
- An American perspective on Gaza
- Recess appointment? Enjoy your volunteer job.
- Another head chopped off the JI hydra
- Moving toward harm reduction statewide
- The new ways and the old ways
- Lou Dobbs isn't stuck on "facts"
- No honor, no degree
- The PRC is not so consequence averse
- A template for writing about Al Hurra
- The Voice of Bush's America
- Pinnacle or Second Chance?
- China's unsurprising solidarity with Myanmar
- Right of return and royal prerogative
- The best axis of evil ever
- Tracking your banana dollar
- The consequences of half-assing it
- A pathological fear of consequences
- GAO - Global warming as an insurance issue
- Pollution with subtext
- Lead on with that sustainable economic development
- Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle - Jose Padilla goes to trial
- Five dead, three missing
- What, are you high?
- GAO - Who's helping in Iraq?
- GAO - Service procurement is a little broken, too
- Energy productivity and greenhouse gas reduction
- With Iran as everywhere else, mismatches abound
- Climate change -- more than just "warmer"
- You can't rush a good failure
- George Tenet, medal winner
- Lt. General William Odom pushes for a signature
- Lt. Col. Paul Yingling tells us about "A Failure in Generalship"
- A little slice of why things don't work in Iraq
- One more of Bush's strong beliefs
- Propositions in the pipeline
- That Soviet flavor again, just off shore
- Bombings in Baghdad
- HIV drug access -- improving, but still not there yet
- It's all about what you have
- Shameful tallies
- The compounding effect of rewarding incompetence
- Slow news day?
- Another fine Indiana day
- Ah, we're using the magic bombs
- GAO - Procurement is a place for realism, not optimism
- No surprise at all
- Like the 1920s all over again
- To reiterate: Liar
- It's hard getting those hostages back once you let them go
- Jeffersonian democracy is not a given
- Smart
- Liar
- Oh John, you kidder
- McCain gets specific
- A lawsuit dismissed, with its evidence accepted
- He agrees with one Senator from Arizona, at least
- "Reform" in Egypt
- Iraqi casualty estimate is credible
- Hypocrisy and the role of Congress in ending a war
- GAO - The VA is improving, but may be behind in more ways than one
- 'Working," in a manner of speaking
- Flashing back more than a decade in Mogadishu
- More damaging silence, this time in the UK
- Cost-benefit analyses
- GAO - Not so fast, KBR
- A snapshot of life in Iraq
- "Lives are literally at stake."
- GAO - What's standing between Iraq and security?
- GAO - Liquid natural gas is safe-ish, but questions remain
- Litigation in the GWoT toolbox
- Another one of those small-town riots...
- GAO - Taking aim on airlift procurement
- GAO - Fuel efficiency standards finally moving again
- Take a lesson from the winning team
- GAO - You can't meet standards DOE doesn't set
- On separation and consolidation
- Which one fits?
- Pulling back or switching over?
- Tailgunner II, the sequel
- Moving to where it matters most
- GAO - Army may not be properly re-equipping itself
- British drawdown -- timely, replicable?
- War plan: Insanity
- Give me shelter
- Roadside bombs and sectarian violence all 'round
- Rendition, the CIA, and you -- about time
- Gold star for *you*, Jong Ill ssi
- Sensible priorities
- Encouraging morals in Zimbabwe
- We're waiting on those 8,000 soldiers
- This is neither surprising nor new
- Pull out of Iraq to achieve your goals
- More patient dumping in Los Angeles
- The Sukhoi: it's not just for cranks anymore
- Illegal immigrants, now available in "White"
- Fifteen percent or fifty-eight percent?
- We all dislike renditions, but not enough to put it in writing
- Citizenship in the Nation
- Russia's Monroe doctrine under a polite veneer
- Local Italian politics messing with one of our guys
- Lord Lawson teaches us the benefits of climate change
- The Klan, as ridiculous as ever
- DNA collecting hits the Federal level
- Amnesty Wireless
- GAO - Food stamp errors and fraud on the decline
- GAO - What the Congress should be on the lookout for in Iraq
- HIV: The wildly wrong and the distinctly unhelpful
- These two things are probably related
- Connecting those dots that don't really connect
- God damn it
- They obviously just clicked "okay" on the EULA without reading it
- Neither emperor nor general to us all
- The straw man: "Come up with your own plan."
- Applying the three Rs to satellites
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, January 25, 2007
- Hope
- On Raptors and Juche, or "Things I learn from propaganda"
- State of the Union 2007: What was promised, what was claimed?
- Maybe they just didn't think of that
- Bring on the pragmatic restraint
- Something for the speech?
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, January 23, 2007
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri disagrees
- India ascendant
- Iraq violence reporting, Monday, January 22, 2007
- Iraq violence reporting, Sunday, January 21, 2007
- No, that's not an "American missile"
- Tyrant, in the Greek sense
- That's some solid distancing there
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, January 18, 2007
- Antisatellite weapons for China
- Maybe not the kind of quagmire he imagines
- Iraq violence reporting, Wednesday, January 17, 2007
- Now that's interesting
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, January 16, 2007
- This is preventable
- Chechen amnesty expires
- Cruelty takes aim on California
- Going off the rails
- GAO - The comptroller says we're headed the wrong way
- I don't really go to Chrysler for my forecasting
- That looks awfully familiar
- "Look what you made me do!"
- Actual GWOT action
- Compare and contrast
- Iraq violence reporting, Monday, January 8, 2007
- What will 10-20,000 troops do?
- If you're blowing things up, you're killing people
- Africa, to al Qaeda: "Yeah, whatever."
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, January 4, 2007
- Treating conditions that matter
- Abstinence? Not hardly.
- Which bias would that be? Not liberal, surely. Western?
- Don't bother to ask, because it's okay
- It really is children's week...
- Surging
- It's better when the fanatics stop killing people
- Look at me, redux
- Iraq violence reporting, December, 2006
- We absolutely believe your entirely reasonable story
- Iraq violence reporting, Friday, December 29, 2006
- Going back, and still farther back
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, December 28, 2006
- Mogadishu "falls"
- The siege of Mogadishu
- Why the Brits popped al-Jamiyat
- Which flag do you fly?
- The AU gives Ethiopia the nod
- Protecting borders in Central Asia
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, December 26, 2006
- GAO: Have your own car
- Iraq violence reporting, Monday, December 25, 2006
- One in sixteen already have
- Planes over Africa
- Iraq violence reporting, Sunday, December 24, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Friday, December 22, 2006
- Look at me. No, at me!
- Like a child
- Iraq violence reporting, Wednesday, December 20, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, December 19, 2006
- Iraq violence increasing, but reporting isn't
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, December 14, 2006
- The fourth-generation blockade
- We should probably listen to them
- Iraq violence reporting, Wednesday, December 13, 2006
- Meanwhile, in Somalia
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, December 12, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Monday, December 11, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Sunday, December 10, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Saturday, December 9, 2006
- The left and right hands making an effort not to interact
- Surprise! It's the biology
- Iraq violence reporting, Thursday, December 7, 2006
- Iraq violence reporting, Wednesday, December 6, 2006
- I bet you thought this was over
- Iraq violence reporting, Tuesday, December 5, 2006
- More problems between Russia and its neighbors
- A deadly rain of logistics
- "Just say no" in Arabic
- Why use facts when you can be patronizing?
- Iraq violence reporting, Monday, December 4, 2006
- That empiricism thing
- Selling poison as an AIDS cure
- If there are no Confederates, is it a civil war?
- So you'll be entering a guilty plea then, Mr. Pinochet?
- Sectarianism, in actions and words
- For the record, it's not the teens
- Russia flexes and flexes
- Cultural differences
- It begins... First war crime charges against Rumsfeld
- That's not actually funny
- Edging closer to 600,000
- No more lying, please
- Faith is on Bush's radar, honestly
- Election 2006: Proposition AAR
- First actual losses for Airbus
- Welcome to the WTO, Vietnam
- Changing my opinion on Prop 83 (to "No")
- Tempting Faith - a testimony on the misuse of religion
- No more auditing in Iraq
- The president believes, but rarely knows
- Alliot-Marie declassifies following claims of French complicity in Rwanda
- Russian reprisal? Maybe not.
- Mandean update
- Exactly the problem with the administration
- Election 2006 - informal information and voting guide (props)
- Proposition 89: Political Campaigns. Public Financing. Corporate Tax Increase. Campaign Contribution and Expenditure Limits. - recommend Yes
- Global cooling, but not in a good way
- Tunisia and the U.S., together at last
- Arguments against Prop 86
- France accused of complicity in Rwandan genocide
- Proposition 83: Sex Offenders. Sexually Violent Predators. Punishment, Residence Restrictions and Monitoring. - recommend No (change of position)
- Tan Nguyen -- worse than I thought
- Community action against sex tourism in Cambodia
- Shades of Michelle Malkin in Orange County electoral race
- Yes, civil war
- Proposition 1D: Kindergarten - University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. - recommend No (with caveat)
- Compounding a bad situation
- Tyranny
- False premise for a nuclear Japan
- Proposition 90: Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property. - recommend No
- Radiation traces found following North Korean test
- Proposition 1C: Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. - recommend No
- Proposition 1B: Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security - recommend No
- Proposition 1A: Transportation Funding Protection. - recommend No
- 600,000 violent deaths
- Tony Snow misdirects on North Korea
- North Korean nuclear test
- Proposition 88: Education Funding. Real Property Parcel Tax. - recommend Yes
- Proposition 87: Alternative Energy. Research, Production, Incentives. Tax on California Oil Producers. - recommend Yes
- Proposition 1E: Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006. - recommend No
- Proposition 84: Water Quality, Safety and Supply. Flood Control. Natural Resource Protection. Park Improvements - recommend No
- Proposition 85: Waiting Period And Parental Notification Before Termination Of Minor's Pregnancy - recommend No
- Eta won't disarm, but isn't doing much else, either
- Proposition 86: Tax on Cigarettes - recommend Yes
- Election time again: November 7, 2006
- Fear sells fear
- Colombian Lysistrata
- Acceptable and unacceptable jihad
- Pick one
- I am troubled...
- Flames and pestilence
- And why were you flying over Ossetia, Minister?
- Lucky breaks in Germany
- News or not?
- Obama and Lewis speak truth to lunacy
- Think of it as the Persian take on American money
- The politics of past and present, and a plan that's failed in advance
- Al-Hariri: Syria worse than Israel
- Scope of the problem
- World conflict roundup, mid-August 2006
- Conditional acceptance and war crimes
- Two out of three probably isn't good enough
- Raising the Earth's carrying capacity (reengineered rice)
- Media management
- How to generate a crisis
- Hugo Chavez, alive and well in the 70s
- The UK reaches an environmental accord with California
- China attempts to muscle Canada into behaving
- Lou Dobbs calls President Bush on his neglect of laws
- Somalia, part 2 (of many)
- While your attention is elsewhere (Ethiopia in Somalia)
- Civil war in Iraq? Yes.
- Where are your cameras aimed?
- What's on your mind, then?
- The free market of military power
- Wipe out endangered species and catch diseases
- Cost-benefit analysis -- do we deflect bullets or political criticism?
- Introducing NNN
- A simple method to maximize the disinfecting power of bleach
- Russia in Iraq
- Speaking of wasted money...
- Shameless and stupid -- Louie Gohmert
- You Don't Own Me, part II (Chechnya and al Qaeda)
- A vote of no confidence in Iraqi security forces