Democrats were obliged to expand their base after the 1972 McGovern campaign. The Republican Party now finds itself in the same boat. Who knew? It turns out that Fox Television and hard-right radio, long the bêtes noires of liberals, are more harmful to conservatives. Media personalities have sucked the air out of what was once …
Elahe Mohtasham Decision
by | 2012-11-09 | 5 Comments
If you are not familiar with Ms. Elahe Mohtasham’s allegations against various persons associated with the University of Southampton, lucky you. Keep it that way and read no further. I will not dignify the allegations by repeating them. If you have been exposed, however unwillingly, to this ugliness, then you ought to know that the UK …
Nuclear Nightmares Revisited
by | 2012-11-07 | 9 Comments
I’ve been enjoying the comments here at the blog on my piece at Foreign Policy regarding some scary moments involving nuclear weapons. I thought I’d devote a post to a few of my favorite suggestions. 1. CASTLE BRAVO. A US thermonuclear test in March 1954 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The designers were …
Obama vs. Romney
by | 2012-11-02 | 12 Comments
U.S. presidential elections periodically offer a dramatic choice rather than an echo. This was Barry Goldwater’s campaign slogan in 1964 against Lyndon Baines Johnson. Voters chose LBJ in a landslide. Lop-sided victories are the usual outcome when two starkly different choices face U.S. voters in presidential contests. Think of Nixon vs. McGovern, or Hoover vs. FDR. …
