Sam Ulmschneider

Doesn't this kind of depend on how well various stealth measures do or don't translate to a space context, which is something we just don't/can't know yet? If they do translate, then finding the other guy and their asset strength remains an important part of the engagement?

Read Robert Dahl's 'On Democracy,' 2015 edition w chapters by Ian Shapiro, immediately predating the Current World Situation with my students over the last month. One of the most rewarding experiences of my career, they are so engaged and complicated and thoughtful, the book so germane. Recommended!

They've barely even had it for a century at this point! RETVRN to before the Judges Bill of 1925?

I can't think of any doctrinal clusterfuck I find more frustrating in the modern era than Chevron/Major Questions/Non-Delegation/Skidmore. No one knows what they're actually doing at, seven different cases and approaches point fourteen ways every time an agency promulgates a significant rule.

What does this conflict even look like in, say, a month? When Iran has mostly exhausted their strongest ballistic missile and drone strike capacity and the US and Israel are still bombing whatever few military targets remain, but (maybe?) the regime itself is still mostly in place and unchallenged?

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

That’s no saying you’re wrong by the way - just elaborating on your thought.

Marx acknowledged earlier modes of production (like the medieval mode depicted in Robin Hood) but I’ve never seen a Rob Hood whose depiction of the medieval mode of production matches Marx’s view of it or its relations to the historical/material dialectic, Rob Hood wants a virtuous king to return!

Norfolk/VA beach/Hampton are non college town urban areas entirely w/in the state, but they’re also less drivers of highly educated job growth than other regions are.

Federal legislation and court jurisdiction, rather. Not correcting you at all, John, just giving you some additional evidence for your position.

The 14th Amendment also allows federal legislation to impact state elections if state action is denying voters equal protection of the (voting and election) laws.

Anecdata: I have a history MA, a poli sci/govt MA, two state certs and a national cert but even at the end of my career at the top of my scale I’ll barely crack 90k (and the Richmond region, while not exactly NYC or Seattle, does have its cost of living challenges).

Is any version of Robin Hood really particularly “Marxist”? There ain’t much in the way of bourgeoisie or the proletariat in a tale set in the 13th century in most tellings…

Also I think they fundamentally misunderstand the difference between gendered behaviors/norms and gender identity (the sort at issue in dysphoria) itself, esp the physical dislocation aspects of it. But my suggested reading is at least a way to be charitable to them while hoping for improvements.

My most generous read here (and it's a stretch) is that some people prefer much looser understandings of existing gender norms rather than the ability to transition BETWEEN different sets of gender norms. Now, that's a bit silly - you can have both those things without contradiction.

The American policy abt Taiwan's sovereignty and defense is, like a lot of policies, about a lot more than just Taiwan's sovereignty and defense on their own. Always odd that people imagine we just have some kind of principled stance on this topic rather than it existing in a complex network effect.

This is generally correct. Solid salaries but with levels of education would in other fields besides education typically put them close to or in a higher category of wages. Here's a fairly recent study. In Virginia, the average wage penalty is about 30% compared to similarly educated professions.

I'd really like to read a good biography of Geraldine Ferraro. Putting that on my list for this summer.

I'm way out of my depth on military law! But I just try to be deferential to religious freedom in a diverse officer and enlisted corps and remind myself of our troubled constitutional history around Quakers, Catholics, Jews etc in the military context and try to take a careful position, that's all.

I agree in principle. But I honestly don't know enough about UCMJ and codes of conduct for commanders vis-a-vis what pre-engagement things they are supposed to or can say to those under their command, and similar topics on to know for sure what does and what doesn't violate established expectations.

tbh unless they really can't obey their oaths or something similar I do think the Free Exercise Clause rules here. If you obey the chain of command and don't freelance and do a good job, your (wacky?) beliefs about the ultimate theological import of your actions is kinda your own to decide.

Subculture-within-a-subculture type thing, where the military, especially officers, are a very particular group and then even within them there are those who are pretty good officers in most normal respects but are ALSO part of the warriors-of-the-end-times contingent, too.

I've always understood on background that there's a network of such people constituting a significant portion of officers and a lesser but still meaningful proportion of enlisted people. Nowhere near a majority in either case, but the true warrior-of-god types are well entrenched in a lot of places.

Ah! Me, overlooking and overthinking instead of the obvious thing staring me in the face. Duh, thanks.

but I agree he was kind of a turd in some ways. The easiest was probably personality. He's always struck me as a profoundly un-fun and complicated, sour person to be around a lot of the time and only Dolley really made him a tolerable social presence for many people.

Fed papers are overrated for sure (except 37, I'll die on the hill of 37 being a work of genius). But the party press essays and some of his other ghostwriting work, his Congressional work in the 1790s, etc seem pretty strong intellectual contributions.

ok, people who understand middle east geopolitics and military analysis better than me: why hasn't Iran targeted US assets at airbases and facilities in Turkey? They're just as in-range as the stuff in the Gulf countries of Iran's missile arsenal (I think?). And there are just as many $$$ there.

Like, as on a personality level? Or an intellectual one? Political? Moral?

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

Thanks! It’s easy to mistake this order for a more general overthrow of the larger midterm redistricting scheme that NY wants to undertake.