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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Randall Forsberg, RIP

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I did not know her especially well, but I met Randall Forsberg a few years ago when she performed some public service reviewing for the Gra...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Department of Peace

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Thursday, October 25, at 3 pm in the Library's Chao Auditorium , I'm participating in a panel discussion on the proposed new Cabine...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Constructive engagement

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One highlight of my weekend trip to Kansas was watching the current KU students debate the 2007-2008 college topic : Resolved: that the Un...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Debate reunion

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I spent about 48 hours this weekend in Lawrence, Kansas, at a debate team reunion. This fall we celebrated the 25th anniversary of my senior...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

More Duck

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Since the Duck of Minerva receives about four times as many reader hits per day as this blog does, then I'm going to be posting most int...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

At the Duck

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Readers might be interested in my recent posts at the Duck of Minerva blog: Today, I blogged "Sarah Sewall and COIN." It concerns...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Is this a coincidence?

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OK, so it has been widely reported that the US is missing a large number of assault rifles in Iraq: The Pentagon has lost track of about 19...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Sputnik

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I'm nearly a week late noting it, but October 4 was the 50th anniversary of the Soviet launch of Sputnik . This is shameless self promot...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Coalition: less and less willing

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October 9, William Kole of AP reported about the continued unraveling of the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. PM Gordon Brown ...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

"Taken with a pinch of salt"

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Patrick Mercer, special security adviser to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was quoted by The Guardian today: 'There is increasing con...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Al Qaeda in Iraq

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Andrew Tilghman, who was an Iraq correspondent for the Stars and Stripes newspaper in 2005 and 2006, has published an excellent overview on...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

The debate about the surge

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Red S Tater is back (see comments here ) and has issued a "challenge" for me to revise my comments about the report General Petrae...

Quacking up

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Over at the Duck of Minerva, I've posted a couple of somewhat comedic items that might be of interest to my readers: Today, I blogged ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

HCFCs and climate

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This past week, the US and nearly 200 other states agreed to an international treaty that will reduce greenhouse gases. The BBC : Nearly 200...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Steroids research

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Professor Roger Tobin has a new paper (pdf warning) soon to be published about the effects of steroid use on home run rates. He estimates t...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

A new NPT?

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Somewhat quietly , the United States is trying to close a loophole in the Non-proliferation Treaty. The NPT allows states to pursue the nucl...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

"That's yesterday's tape"

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For the title of this post, I've quoted a line from "Groundhog Day," the classic Bill Murray movie about a guy who discovers ...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Edwards: Pakistan hawk?

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On September 7 at Pace University, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards outlined his anti-terror plan. Like several of the other D...