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Following up on the Professor’s post on the Virginia-class attack subs and the war on terror, the indispensable Fred Kaplan has a piece in Slate today on the rest of Rummy’s cold-war-era expenditures (What would I do without Fred Kaplan? I’d have to READ the actual Defense budget! Yikes!!).
Some of the [...]

Unfortunately, this is not an article about the ever-expanding girth of Seattle’s mayor:

(2nd from the left).

It’s a sad but true fact that pretty much everyone I know from the land of the Maize and Blue who’s gone to college doesn’t live in Michigan anymore. Now, statistics confirm this. I’ve (only half-jokingly) referred to this as the “Michigan Diaspora.” Now, it’s not even half a joke.
Unfortunately, it’s also [...]

Credit where due:
President Bush will seek deep cuts in farm and commodity programs in his new budget and in a major policy shift will propose overall limits on subsidy payments to farmers, administration officials said Saturday.
Such limits would help reduce the federal budget deficit and would inject market forces into the farm economy, the officials [...]

I’m fascinated by stories of personal courage and quietly noble lives, especially those involving WW II.
I was always under the impression Max Schmeling wasn’t someone to be particularly fond of. Guess I was wrong.
What a life!

Are my eyes deceiving me, or is Glenn Reynolds in the pockets of the trial attorneys:

Hmm… quick search of his archives shows he’s not necessarily opposed to them. Fair enough, he is a law professor, after all.

I don’t know, Professor, Even though Wolfie isn’t into the idea, I bet you could outfit these Virginia-class attack subs with some real neo-conservative firepower. The article reads:
One well-placed source told JDW the navy could build as few as 10 of the boats before switching to a new design in about 2012. The service [...]

Sorry, Bruno.
Looks like Seawolf (er, Virginia, anyway) won’t be parked at Grand Central defending Democracy anytime soon.
Bizarre that the military usually makes the right decisions when it comes to funding, and its the pols that want useless crap … C.f. Comanche.

Looks like the NYPD has nabbed Nicole DuFresne’s killers. Hallelujah.
I can’t say that I knew Nicole, though she did run in nearby circles in Seattle’s theatre community. Her memorial party was held at CHAC, where the Prof and I broadcast from.
It’s amazing that they were able to find the killers so quickly. [...]

As loyal Professorheads will remember, he earned his honorific studying banking policy with a researcher at the Minneapolis Fed. The good Doctor Boyd was one of those rare conservatives - a man so far to the right that he’d truly come ’round the circle and espoused many of the neo-progressive ideals that Bruno and [...]