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G W Bush’s successful Presidency

William Pitt reminds us to keep the following in mind during this election: It has been more than ten years now since PNAC first introduced itself by way of its…

Admiral Fallon retires early

An admiral takes on the White House: By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – A new article on CENTCOM commander Admiral William Fallon confirms that his public statements last autumn ruling out…

Guantanamo and defense

…among other things, that Pentagon general counsel William Haynes said in August 2005 that any acquittals of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo would make the United States look bad, calling into…

Post flambe

…this talk draws upon joint work with William Gale of Brookings, Robert Greenstein and Richard Kogan of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Robert Rubin of Citigroup, and Allen…

Malingering or science? Part 1

…Today carries a link to a memo the Armed Forces Epidemilogical Board sent to William Winkenwerder Jr., Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs at the Department of Defense, as regards diagnosis…

Just a business expense and opprtunity cost

Salon reports: In April 2007, William Winkenwerder Jr. retired from his position as assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, where he had been in charge of…

Starve the Beast Theory with a Lag

That didn’t take long. When William Niskanen produced a regression that suggested years in which taxes were low also tended to be years in which spending was high, one had…

Buckley on Galbraith

…insulted by the National Review’s version of an obituary for Professor Galbraith, which was to replay this September 2001 smear from William Buckley. Consider, for example, this passage: Prime Minister…