After reading an excerpt from George C. Herring’s LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War, I realized that the similarities between the Vietnam War and our current debacle in Iraq are all too striking. While these parallels should not be overstated, Presidents Johnson and Bush made very similar mistakes in war; or rather, President [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on March 25, 2007 | 13 Comments »
What Do Middle Easterners Think?
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iran, Iraq, Media, Oil, Social concerns, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance, War-on-Terror on March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This spring break (in the snow), I discovered Mosaic. This Peabody Award winnig show is only available on LinkTV or via a free video podcast; its relative anonymity, however, should not detract astute news consumers. Mosaic presents a collage of video clips from various Middle Eastern news sources and offers a Middle Eastern viewpoint on [...]
Ann Coulter Declares Edwards a “Faggot”
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Ann Coulter, Gay Issues, Igor Volsky Posts, John Edwards, Media, Mitt Romney, Social concerns on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney introduced columnist Ann Coulter by pronouncing, “I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!” After her speech Coulter, with a smug and knowing [...]
-
Archives
- July 2007 (9)
- June 2007 (5)
- March 2007 (3)
- February 2007 (13)
- January 2007 (8)
- December 2006 (4)
- November 2006 (16)
- August 2006 (3)
- July 2006 (2)
- June 2006 (4)
- May 2006 (4)
- April 2006 (2)
- March 2006 (15)
- February 2006 (5)
- August 2005 (2)
- July 2005 (2)
- June 2005 (11)
- May 2005 (10)
- April 2005 (3)
- March 2005 (2)
- February 2005 (28)
- January 2005 (36)
- December 2004 (118)
- November 2004 (21)
-
Categories
- 2008 Presidential Election (6)
- Al Gore (1)
- Ann Coulter (1)
- Barack Obama (2)
- College Politics (3)
- Compassionate Conservatism (11)
- Constitutional Law (2)
- Dan Black Posts (29)
- Debt and Trade (3)
- Democratic Leadership (8)
- Domestic spending (4)
- Environment (5)
- Essays (7)
- Ethanol Critique Series (3)
- Gay Issues (3)
- Healthcare (3)
- Hillary Clinton (2)
- Igor Volsky Posts (73)
- Iran (3)
- Iraq (37)
- John Edwards (3)
- Media (22)
- Mitt Romney (1)
- Morning Links (8)
- Oil (7)
- Renewable Energy Politics (3)
- Rudy Giuliani (1)
- Sean Hannity (1)
- Social concerns (28)
- Sustainability (3)
- U.S. Foreign Policy (32)
- U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance (11)
- US Supreme Court (1)
- Veterans Affairs (1)
- War-on-Terror (25)
-
Pages
