I am looking for authors for concise monographs (48 – 150 pp.) for books in a new series called DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE 21ST CENTURY. My inspiration is THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD by Sir Edward Shephard Creasy. I am thinking of key moments like 9′/11, Tora Bora, Operation Anaconda, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Surge, etc., but I am open to out of the box ideas like Mumbai, Lehman Brothers, Bush-Gore, the Russia-Georgia War, etc. If this strikes a chord, please contact me at wfz at nimble books dot com
The first book in the series is a “nimble” republication of the U.S. Senate’s report on Tora Bora.
It may seem arrogant to take the Americans to task to such a degree.
Yes.
But at least in Europe, many are willing to question their own lifestyle and to look at events beyond their own borders.
For example, by reading opinion articles from foreign newspapers.
via Opinion: Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.
Obamas brother speaks out for first time – washingtonpost.com.
Ndesandjo bears a striking resemblance to Barack Obama — lean, with a similar face. This is what America’s 44th president would look like if he shaved his head, wore a bandana, favored black T-shirts and sported an earring in his left ear.
Will future Presidents express strategic goals in terms of Twitter graph theory? That is almost a certainty.
via Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets .
It’s almost a certainty that no President will ever mention graph theory.
Yes, of course this would have happened to a white professor who yelled at a cop. Common sense 101.
The police report said Gates was arrested after he yelled at the investigating officer repeatedly inside the residence then followed the officer outside, where Gates continued to upbraid him. “It was at that time that I informed Professor Gates that he was under arrest,” the officer wrote in the report.
Gates, 58, declined to comment today when reached by phone.
“He and I both raised the question of if he had been a white professor, whether this kind of thing would have happened to him, that they arrested him without any corroborating evidence,” said S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor who spoke with Gates about the incident Friday. “I am deeply concerned about the way he was treated, and called him to express my deepest sadness and sympathy.”
via Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe.
Washington … is fundamentally not a city of competitive industries, but a giant taxpayer-funded office park, surrounded by museums and memorials.
via Washington, DC: The Real Winner in this Recession | Newgeography.com .
Thank God for the United States Supreme Court, which would never uphold such a vague and weaselly standard.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
Named and shamed: the 16 barred from UK – UK Politics, UK – The Independent.
new unit of measure for Iraq, Katrina, bank mess, Obama budgets: the kiloDirksen, in honor of the late Senator Everett Dirksen, who is widely credited with the quip:
”A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”
He may not have actually said those words, but he might as well have, because it’s an essential observation that is indelibly associated with him.
This is one of the places where intent of the founders becomes tricky to parse. Did they envisage a District of Columbia large enough to need a representative? Doubtful. Would they have been willing to allow hundreds of thousands of mostly African-American citizens to be permanently disenfranchised? Er, yes…
I wonder if the 14th Amendment doesn’t play a role here as well.
Questions over the constitutionality of a D.C. voting bill have dogged the proposal throughout its journey through Congress. Some legal experts say that because the District is not a state, the proposal does not square with a constitutional requirement that House members be chosen “every second year by the people of the several states.” Others argue that the Constitution gives Congress broad power over the District, including the ability to grant it a full House seat.
via Some in Justice Department See D.C. Vote in House as Unconstitutional – washingtonpost.com.
Not a big fan of the Sixties and “flower power”, but it is ridiculous to blame? associate? correlate? the end of a well-intentioned mass movement on the behavior of a sociopath who shared none of its aims. Sloppy writing and thinking.
This August marks the 40th anniversary of the Manson killings, which stunned the nation and effectively marked the end of the counter-culture, “flower power” era of the 1960s.
via Aging Charles Manson captured in prison photo | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times.
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