…wars, you can say you’ve won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender? It’s hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”…

…wars before 1981. Keynes is not to blame for Reagan and Bush43’s fiscal irresponsibility. Update II: Trent Lott was FOR the Pozen plan BEFORE he was AGAINST it. And true…

…called “pro-Likud intellectuals” who went off “fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv.” Under Bush, the diplomats agreed, the U.S. had inflamed the Arab world and had forfeited its…

…billion in 2009. If anything, that may understate the size of the deficit in coming years because it does not include any additional costs for the wars in Iraq and…

…Institute’s William Niskanen points out that since WW II, spending growth has been slower under divided government, and wars have been less common. The Bush administration certainly fits Niskanen’s theory!…

This is utterly unsurprising, but still depressing: The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing…

…he did just say, “I will not privatize it.” – Blogger’s actin’ up again. – Kerry: “Eleven other presidents, 6 Democrats and 5 Republican, had wars, had recessions. Had great…

…6 of the last 9 presidential terms in office. Nixon#1, Bush Sr., and arguably the Reagan terms (if you count his intensification of the Cold War) experienced wars. Nixon #2…

…bubble, a recession, a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, a big tax cut, and not one, but two, wars. So without an analogous comparable, making a prediction with a…

…R&D did not decline from the 1980s to the early 1990’s. If O’Reilly wishes to attribute the late 1990’s boom to defense R&D (e.g., Star Wars), why did he claim…