More Canadian military history book reviews at H-Net, written 20 hours ago, H-Net's (www.h-net.org) H-Canada discussion list is the home to a few more reviews of books on Canadian military history.  These include:   Stephen Brumwell, Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General Wo...

The Responsibility to Protect: An International Norm in the Making?, written 1 month ago, The concept of the Responsibility to Protect – or R2P as it is known in policy jargon – has been in the news lately as a result of the (partly man-made) humanitarian crisis that unfolded in Burma after Cycl...

Will government become part of the private sector?, written 1 week ago, Much of of the current debate over whether government should operate more like private business fails to take into account the growing reality that government is increasingly merging with private business. Allan Burman at Georg...

Deference, n., The grand prize in a self-promotion sweepstakes., written 5 hours ago, Deference, n., The grand prize in a self-promotion sweepstakes.

The McCains' Like father like Son?, written 12 hours ago, For years the U.S. Government run by Republicans like John McCain have spent far more than is sustainable, which is neither wise nor particularly conservative(much like our crowd of Rat Bastards) This Friday the FDIC ninjas closed down the Ne...

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Forecasting through games, written 2 days ago, There is a long history of modeling, simulation, and gaming within the intelligence community, dating back to the Prussian General Staff's Kriegsspiel, wherein the intelligence of the day, such as it was, would be used to determine the enemy strength an...

VPGILF A Ron Paul Fan, written 1 week ago, Wow, she compares herself to ron paul? awesome!Published by MTV News on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 1:58 pm.Sarah PalinBy Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Dani CarlsonBack in February, on Super Tuesday, MTV News Street Teamer Dani Carlson did a Flixwagon inte...

Interstate Coordination and Planning Saves Lives, written 3 days ago, A full week prior to landfall, and without full knowledge of where Gustav would make landfall, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was making plans for a full-scale evacuation of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. This evacuation ...

Dow Chemical Leverages Unified Sustainability Platform to Save $2 Million, written 4 days ago, The enterprise is not known for frivolous initiatives. Not to take anything away from the "green" movement, but it wouldn't last long if it didn't result in lower operating costs in addition to m...

TravelMob.com Launch - Traveling with Friends is now just that much easier, written 2 weeks ago, I'm proud to announce that my group travel startup, TravelMob.com launched today! This is a project I started while a grad student at the Technology Policy Program. TravelMob.com ScreenshotsView SlideSha...

Tax rich at higher rate, says TUC, written 15 hours ago, I'm with the TUC on this one, as it is about time that someone advocated proper redistributionist taxation policies.The supposed virtue placed on unearned income - dividends and interest - is based on the false Thatcherite notion that the reci...

U.S Hands over Anbar Province to Iraqi Forces, written 6 days ago, Today something significant happened and news media chose to somehow to play it down. U.S forces have handed over the control of Anbar province. For those who are familiar with this province, it used to be one of the most unstable re...

The Palin Teleprompter Myth, written 3 days ago, Cross-posted at Video Done Right, the blog of Eyeblast.tv ST. PAUL — Word on the cable networks this morning is that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a superstar because she delivered her rousing speech at the convention here last...

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Out-sourced elections: an about-face?, written 5 days ago, It looks like there may some movement away from the current situation in which U.S. elections are increasingly outsourced and privatized.read more

Surrendering, written 22 hours ago, Some of you are such assholes that you don't read Arthur Silber, even when I suggest you ought to. I would like to be kind in telling you that, but it's hard to do while remaining dedicated to truth above all other things. But it doesn't matter. You don't listen, ...

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