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The West as Nuclear Proliferator

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Lee

(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading →

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The Captives of Years

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Lee

On Monday the United States officially returned all security duties for Anbar province to Iraqi police and military. The collapse of the Sunni insurgency there now appears to be almost total, with attacks having declined 90% from only two years … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged 1968, 2006, Anbar, Anbar province, attacks, Blogs for Victory, chart, Creighton Abrams, David Petraeus, Iraq, New York Times, security, sunni insurgency, Vietnam, Vietnamization | Leave a comment

On that “Permanent Underclass”

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Kind of an interesting little chart. Is it conceivable that most of our political narratives are nonreflective of economic reality? Don’t answer that. (Investor’s Business Daily)

Posted in Economics | Tagged chart, graph, income growth, Investor's Business Daily, narratives, political, undreglass | 23 Comments

The Scale of the American Economy

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Lee

Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Lee's Page | Tagged , American, business, chart, China, Economics, economy, GDP, Germany, GSP, image, map, regions, scale, states, strange maps, UK, United Kingdom, US, visualization | 7 Comments

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The West as Nuclear Proliferator

The Captives of Years

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The Scale of the American Economy

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