[ by Charles Cameron ]
It’s a very different approach…
I’ve been preparing to write up some of the episodes that represent how warm and close relations between Muslims and Christians can at times be – the meeting of St Francis with the Sultan Malik al-Kamil, the period of considerable tolerance and artistic flourishing under Umayyad rule [...]
Took the children, who had a fistful of gift cards, to Barnes & Noble’s yesterday and picked up a couple of books for myself:
The Spartacus War by Barry Stauss
Marcus Aurelius: A Life by Frank McLynn
The legendary slave rebellion of Spartacus has yielded a relatively thin book by Strauss but it is an opportunity for me [...]
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Christmas holiday!
Do you know why the New START treaty doesn’t deal with tactical nuclear weapons? Because it starts with a f’cking S, that’s why. Last night, the Senate turned back an amendment by Idaho Senator Jim Risch to include a 49 word sentence about tactical nuclear weapons in the preamble of New START — which, recall, [...]David Sanger and Bill Broad have a gossamer story in the New York Times about whether North Korea might have more centrifuge facilities. Unfortunately, the story sort of dissolves when you start to pick it apart. On the first read, Sanger and Broad seem to suggest that the United States has completed a new intelligence [...]The Arms Control Association is, again, holding its annual contest for “Arms Control Person of the Year.” Richard Lugar, as always, has a strong case — but he won last year and it is tough to vote against the 11 year old land-mine victim. And the nominees are … Sumiteru Taniguchi and other hibakusha-the survivors [...]
The following graph details nine major deficit reduction proposals by program recommendation.