Archive for September 10th, 2008

Cold War Part Two is here

The recent news that two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela’s Libertador military airfield and “will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base,” signals, in my mind, the beginning of the second phase of the cold war. As we argued here,...
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Finally, a Democrat fights back!

The campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama have been on the verge of being dismissed as another go-round of “stupid” politics with the dangerous veering toward the ridiculous. The latest round of this is the recent spat between the Obama  and McCain campaigns over “lipstick on a pig” comments. As anyone who has...
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