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Crab Technique

Needs more work.

Also, it looks like “Funchal” might not be an entirely appropriate name for the airport.

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Blowback

Washington, famously, is Hollywood for ugly people. Unlike Hollywood, no one  in the federal has weighed in on the Roman Polanski matter, although Hillary Clinton has been getting phone calls from her French counterpart, who may himself be out of step with France. Bill – perhaps sensing a certain vulnerability on the issue of [...]

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Pax Americana

From Wikipedia:

The modern Pax Americana era is cited by both supporters and critics of the United States foreign policy after the Second World War. Many commentators and critics focus on American policies from 1992 to the present, and as such, it carries different connotations depending on the context. For example, it appears repeatedly [...]

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“Elite”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle

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Electronic Attack

The Navy’s first Growler squadron goes operational:

The first operational Growler squadron to attain “safe for flight” status since the first EA-18G arrived Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in June 2008 recently returned from a successful carrier qualification detachment on board USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) with a 100 percent qualification rate.

Operating [...]

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Meanwhile, Back in Iraq

All of the focus seems to be on tortured Afghanistan these days (and teetering Washington), but as Greyhawk points out, there are still 130,000 pairs of dusty American boots in Iraq.

A good read, plenty of links to chew on and a preview of history’s second draft.

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Talkin’ Bout My Generation

Mixing pleasures.

(H/T to Glenn Reynolds)

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Gun Control

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A teenage girl says she killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser’s home in a remote village in Jammu region on Monday and started beating her parents in front of her.

Ms Kauser, 18, and her brother [...]

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Expert Advice

The New York Times headline surprised me, drew me in: How to Press the Advantage With Iran

It was an op-ed piece written by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Everett, respectively the “director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University” and “the [...]

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Steyn’s Rules

The American left was truly terrified of Ronald Reagan. They pretended to detest him for his cowboy jingoism, supposed intellectual deficiency (he only went to Eureka College, you know) and his obstructionist stance across our National Path to Greatness. Which was largely defined, of course, by ever-increasing government control by Wise Government Bureaucrats over [...]

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