Satellite destruction

Last night (5:36pm HST) the USS Lake Erie supposedly shot down that oh-so-threatening hydrazine-laden satellite (I’ve seen no physical evidence that it really did, which is why I use the word “supposedly”). I still wonder about the actual motives behind this action. In an online chat yesterday at the Washington Post, Ivan Oelrich, the Vice …

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Fidel

Via Kevin Drum comes this interesting blog post about Castro and his legacy. However much the aging revolutionary has done for his people, he refused ever to trust them ? to openly debate political questions, and to choose wisely in a genuinely competitive political system. Instead, it was Father knows best, on an epic scale. …

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