Monthly Archive: February 2012

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Since I’m having a hard time writing new material due to physical limitations more than creative ones, I’m taking a paper I wrote and breaking it into a bunch of blog posts. This is...

Dear readers, the posts by both Blaise and Burt have put me into a contemplative mood. The mention of the Romanovs and Massoud put that germinated into a thought: What does it cost to...

(This blog post was originally intended for Mindless Diversions but, upon publishing it there, I immediately had visions of the political and/or religious comments that would follow. As such, I think that the Front...

Burt Likko says we have no legitimate claim to Afghanistan, using the example of Peter the Great, waging war on the old boyars of Russia. I question this business about being Invaders in Afghanistan....

In his powerful biography of Peter I Romanov, Robert Massie puts words in the mouth of the czar: “I will drag you, kicking and screaming if need be, into the modern world.” Peter could...

I got to spend about two hours with James Poulos yesterday; just the two of us, in person. I enjoyed my (all to brief) visit with James very much and hope I’ll have the...

In the handful of years this site has been active, we’ve banned four users and a couple dozen IP addresses. Trolls are persistent and take on many identities. It requires some work to ban...

Today I want to do a round-up of my blognado experience. First, allow me to explain the origin of the name.  There was a short-lived TV series called The Middleman.  It was perhaps the geekiest show...

Did the ratification of the 14th Amendment in the 19th century abolish “traditional” morality in the 21st? Yes, says a growing body of judicial review. District Judge Jeffrey White’s opinion in Golinski v. United...

At Outside the Beltway, Doug Mataconis points us to a governmental job for which the regular consumption of alcoholic beverages is not only not a problem, but a job requirement. Almost makes me want...

Hello dear readers. Having taken a detour into state formation in fantasy worlds, I’m now going to bring fantasy into policy making. Perhaps a week or so ago, I noticed that Sully brought up...

This post is something of a coda to my Tuesday post on taxes, this time taken from the other direction. The most common objection to welfare system is that it discourages work, leading to protracted welfare dependency.  This can...

By request from Stillwater and Rose, here is a post on the epistemology of peer disagreement. Being the kind of lazy sod that I am in my deepest of hearts, I realised that since...

Attention Leaguers! Starting this week, we will be introducing a new feature here at the League: the Retroactive Table of Contents Subscription. If you wish, each Friday or Saturday we will send you via...

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U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White today ruled in favor of the plaintiff in the case of Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management. Karen Golinski is a research attorney for the U.S. District Court...