And this is the rest of the story:

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In 1999, while stationed at Keesler AFB for technical training, a friend of mine, Airman Eberhart, randomly mentioned to me in line for chow one day that 16 people had been killed by pirates the year before. I remember my reaction as being, first, “Pirates!?” and, second, “Where did you find that out?”
Sure enough, it […]

Yesterday, while catching up on my The Economist reading, I read Tony Blair’s recent rundown of his lessons learned while in office. It was largely the same platitudes we’ve been hearing from both London and Washington, but this out-right lie really caught my eye:
We can debate and re-debate the rights or wrongs of removing Saddam. […]

Ector County Independent School District has hired Liberty Legal Institute, a Plano-based religious-right litigation group, to represent the district in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the district’s use of the controversial, Chuck Norris-endorsed National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools Bible course. (By the way, NCBCPS is the worst […]

Abu Muqawama, a blogger anyone interested in COIN operations or Afghanistan should read regularly, points to a This American Life profile of The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas — not far from Kansas State University, where I’ve applied for a graduate program in security studies.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. Their true import, as far as respects individuals, must, like all other laws, be ascertained by […]