An extraordinary number of police retire the day before potentially serious disciplinary hearings. It's a remarkable coincidence. (View Post)

There's also another issue (which I think is just human nature): we tend to assume that our own group is heterogeneous, while other groups are homogenuous. Hence the bizarre belief that a Muslim… (View Post)

I don't think he's a Russian "asset", but I'm wondering how would his behavior be any different if he was? (View Post)

The smartest thing about this move is that it means that the US can't just negotiate with Russia, and then present it as a fait accompli, because now there's something that the EU has that … (View Post)

That does ignore Lend-Lease ahead of their formal entry into the war. (View Post)