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Joe Girardi has agreed in principle to become the next manager of the Florida Marlins, exiting his role as the Yankee bench coach. Details of the contract will be finalized tonight. Funny Joe Girardi story. In about 1993 or 1994,...

I still can't get last night's NLCS game out of my mind. Albert Pujols inflicted more damage on the Houston baseball psyche than the law ought to allow. The sound of that stadium when that bomb he hit ricocheted off...

I've been writing about free speech of late because some of SDP's critics are so obviously hostile to the idea. Fortunately these would-be bullies are about as threatening as the Smurfs discussed in my last post. NCATE is another matter....

'The Great Game' Returns

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice completed her visit to Central Asia and Afghanistan last week. This is a tough neighborhood, which plays a key role in the forthcoming global game between the West and the rest.

The U.S. has growing geopolitical competition in the region from Russia, China and the global Islamist movement. Ms. Rice is now playing the 21st Century version of the "Great Game" in which, 100 years ago, the British Empire and Czarist Russia competed over the heartland of Eurasia.

What a phrase can evoke - "The Great Game" - recalling the not always glorious days of Kipling and Victoria:

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier?So-oldier of the Queen!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Last week my colleague here at SDP Jason mentioned an article from the Argus Leader which detailed some of the complaints levied against Pine Ridge Tribal Chairman Cecelia Fire Thunder. Friday's Rapid City Journal has another article which allows Fire...

Oh, this is absolutely delightful: Sheehan thrashing 'war hawk' Hillary. Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "peace mom" on a crusade to end U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, is publicly blasting Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for her continued support of the...

Roll Call:Democratic Think Tank Mixes Ideas With Bush-Bashing October 17, 2005, ROLL CALL By Morton M. Kondracke, Roll Call Executive Editor Behind a sulfurous fog of anti-Bush diatribes, there is a Democratic new-idea factory operating at the Center for American...

This is to demonstrate how potentially easy it could be to start a conspiracy theory.

Has anyone elxe noticed the resemblence between Homeland security boss and Lenin?

Nah. Couldn't be, could it?

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