Three recent moves: Nats Sign Paul Lo Duca 1/3~5 Yanks Sign LaTroy Hawkins 1/3.75 Brewers Sign Eric Gagne 1/10
We’ll begin with the Nationals, they signed Lo Duca to bolster their suddenly empty catcher cabinet, Lo Duca will probably start instead of former Rule 5 pick Jesus Flores, and should out hit Brian Schneider, but […]
Trio of Inkings
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
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Tear Down This Wall
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
A little over twenty years ago, President Ronald Reagan, while standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, challenged Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” It was a speech that changed the world. Less than 2 1/2 years later, East Germany opened the Wall and the Soviet Union […]
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WAR: Estimating Iran
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
A few thoughts on last week’s announcement of the National Intelligence Estimate, which estimates that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003:
1. As Reagan used to say, trust, but verify. U.S. intelligence has historically been lousy regarding other nations’ WMD programs, especially police states, going back as far as the USSR and […]
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POLITICS: Huck Amok
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
A blistering editorial from National Review:
On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement […]
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