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The Russian Federation has given the United States an ultimatum. It must choose between Georgia and Russia. The American answer was not long in coming. Poland and the United States reached an agreement Thursday to base American missile interceptors in Poland, the prime minister said, going ahead with a plan that has angered Russia and…

Is it 1939 all over again? No. Far from it. What we have is a much milder variety. What we have is a nudist war. On the one side white bottoms burn in the sun. On the other side conservative swimming trunk-wearers turn up their noses at the naked beachgoers. Now a heated argument has…

If this video report is true, and we should know in a few days, it proves the Russians have not changed at all. Murdering bastards. The New York Times has a report: Of gripping importance to the Georgian government now, Western diplomats and Georgian officials said, is whether the agreement gave the Russians room to…

Recently Chicago Magazine, the magazine of the University of Chicago, posted a short bit on a protest by a group of about 100 faculty members against the Milton Friedman Institute. The Chicago Maroon has more details. More than 100 academic faculty members have united in protest over the University’s soon-to-be established Milton Friedman Institute, sending…

A man who runs a gay cruising site has taken flak for the crime of being a gay person who dared to support John McCain. Reflecting on the rather strange rule that All Gays Must Support Barack Obama Or Else!, Richard Miniter asks some good questions: Why should a particular sexual orientation demand a particular…

That is a take off on the “joke” going around that the Russian troops are “touring” the beautiful Georgian countryside. This has to be another complication for the Russians. This whole Georgian episode is spinning out of control for them. It has got to be bad for business. And if there is anything the gangsters…

From: i Report Text of the Presidents message .

Hormones are powerful. I know this from personal experience, as I was put on steroids as a kid to make me grow, and it did a number on me. Hormones can have unintended consequences, and I have often wondered about whether birth control pills might do more than simply prevent pregnancy. The evidence accumulates that…

The Air Force Times reports that the US is going to fly supplies into Georgia. Air Force officials are putting plans together to fly supplies into Georgia following Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s order to end all military operations in the former Soviet state. Air Force C-17s flew all of Georgia’s 2,000 troops deployed in Iraq…

As a long-time fan of the inimitable and controversial Kitchener, Ontario comics creator Dave Sim, I was intrigued when my girlfriend pointed out Judenhass on the rack at my favorite comic shop. Judenhass is a German term which means “hatred of Jews”. Sim chose the terms because he found antisemitism to be inaccurate in that…

The war is over in Georgia and it looks, from the oulines of the peace agreement that Georgia won. I predicted that this would be the outcome in Perhaps They Miscalculated and Winning. Let us start with a report by the Volokh Conspiracy on the main points of the agreement. Russian agreements to conclude all…

A lot of folks around the ‘net are saying Russia won in Georgia. So let me pose a question. If the Russians were winning in Georgia why would they stop after 5 days? It is not their way.

Anyone remember the “end of history”? I do, and I thought it was one of the most idiotic ideas ever floated by the intellectual classes (which is saying something). George Will offers a terse reminder that history has not ended again: WASHINGTON — Asked in 1957 what would determine his government’s course, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s…

There is an excellent discussion of the dust up in the Republic of Georgia going on at The Belmont Club. There is lots of news about an impending Naval Blockade of Iran. Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval…

According to The American Forces Press Service American planes are flying into Georgia. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2008 – The U.S.-assisted redeployment of Georgian troops from Iraq to their home country should be completed today, a Pentagon spokesman said. American military aircraft began shuttling the brigade of Georgian forces yesterday, as clashes with Russian forces intensified…

Via an article in the Examiner (“Wine-and-Cheese Thuggery“) I learned that a new group of left-wing activists is playing the hardest sort of political hardball with people who give money to conservative (and presumably libertarian) organizations they don’t like: WASHINGTON (Map, News) – Tom Matzzie is mailing threatening letters this week to nearly 10,000 people…

Nick has left an interesting comment on my error in the post Blazing Economies. Seems to me the difference won’t matter once the winter comes and the Russians shut the lights off on Germany. I seem to recall that Secretary of State Rice warned the Europeans about getting too deeply dependent on Russian Energy supplies.…

Obama has a couple of statements on Gerogia. “I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected. All sides should enter…

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Would Barack Obama ever dare to attempt a nationwide smoking ban? Richard Miniter thinks it is possible. It occurrs to me that if something like that were seriously proposed, it would take a considerable amount of time to implement. This might offer a nice business opportunity for some political guerilla marketing, and I already came…