Monthly Archives: March 2012

Seven Kingdoms

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Game of Thrones this weekend. That is all.  

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Cyber Offense, Pt II

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

I blogged earlier this week about the US’s capabilities in cyber war from an offensive perspective. So this article headline- “U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War”- caught my eye. I get that we have serious issues in our cyber-defense capabilities, but … Continue reading →

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Making me a believer

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

I’ve always been a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to college football…I still oppose a substantial change to the BCS system, and up to recently opposed changing the amateur-status rules that govern paying college athletes. But interviews like this … Continue reading →

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Rubio’s Too Smart for THAT

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

I predicted that coverage would shift to the VP slot, and there’s been a little bit of it here and there, but not as much as I thought there would be at this point in the race. That said, despite … Continue reading →

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Stand Your Ground

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

The coverage of the shooting case in Florida has been pretty breathless so far, and much of it has focused on the particulars of the peculiarities of the self-defense laws in Florida. George Will made an excellent comment on Sunday … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Coin

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

The US military is far from perfect, as the recent shooting in Afghanistan shows. And while the “hero” word has been thrown around so much it’s become somewhat devalued, it’s worth a reminder now and then that the real kind … Continue reading →

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Marriage Crunch

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

The whole “Thinking Like a Fox” comes from Philip Tetlock’s work at UPENN, where he’s found that prediction makers tend to be most wrong when they make broad, unequivocated statements. The problem is that when a person makes a prediction that’s … Continue reading →

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Perceptions of American Power

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

American politics seem to be pervaded right now with a gloomy tone – Mitt Romney in particular has been playing up a rhetoric of “Restoring” America (with the implication that we are already fallen, not just that we are headed … Continue reading →

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Open Mic, Insert Foot

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

So President Obama is getting some flak for an open-mic gaffe he made today: In a private conversation about the planned U.S.-led NATO missile defense system in Europe, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for space on … Continue reading →

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National ID Card

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

I read this Op-Ed advocating for a National ID card and agreed with pretty much the whole first half of it, especially this summary: In other words, the U.S. has created two forms of de facto ID: one (Social Security) … Continue reading →

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