A Government with No Military and No Territory
By Michael Schwartz

President Bush marked the Iraqi election of December 2005 as the beginning of a new era. A freely selected permanent government would begin asserting its sovereignty over the country, building an administrative infrastructure, and rising to the challenge of governing an unruly and often violent constituency.

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Stupidity About Way More Than Yellow Tibet

Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not wanting to know.

March 12th is the anniversary for Tibetan king Songzan Gambo’s marriage to Chinese princess Wen Cheng in 641. Although the union later formed the basis of China’s claim to sovereignty over the region, 100 out of 100 (“Free Tibet“) lefties who I interviewed didn’t know squat about the Tang Princess or China’s territorial arguments

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Shark and Awe
From the Annals of Full-Spectrum Dominance

We already have "stealth" aircraft, but what about a little of the stealth that only nature can provide?

Navy Seals, move over -- here come the Navy sharks. According to the latest New Scientist magazine, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the blue-sky wing of the Pentagon, has set yet another group of American scientists loose to create the basis for future red-in-tooth-and-maw Discovery Channel programs.

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George's Inferno
And Other Images from a No-Name War

Look at the polls. When Gallup's pollsters go out to ask Americans about the Bush administration and Iraq, they frame their questions this way: "Do you think the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, or not?"; "Do you favor or oppose the U.S. war with Iraq?"; "Who do you think is currently winning the war in Iraq?" Mind you, never the Iraq War -- like the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or the Gulf War -- but the war in Iraq.

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