In a less-noticed festivity of Treason in Defense of Slavery Confederate Weekend, an outdoor celebration was held to remember Sherman's famous march through Western Canada. Personal to organizers: next time more Metric, less Five For Fighting.
Month: February 2011
Fortunately, rail funding is one area where teabagger resentment actually makes me happy. If they don't want the money for crucial infrastructure improvements because hippie-punching is a higher priority, we'll.
Well, some people will celebrate anything: Wearing gray wool uniforms, hoop skirts, leather jackets and business suits, several hundred men and women marched to the Alabama Statehouse on Saturday afternoon,.
The vast majority of neocon Iraq War supporters never cared about them, of course.
The Thucydides conference is now over, although I still feel like a snake that’s swallowed a water buffalo. Some takeaways; I also have thoughts on Thucydidean maritime matters at Information.
It seems impossible for a conservative to write anything about Wisconsin without noting, for their records, that elections have consequences. The original context of Obama's statement, you'll remember, is a conversation.
My friend Ken Sherrill sends along the following note: Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows: South Carolina - 50th North Carolina - 49th Georgia -...
James Joyner makes a valiant but inherently doomed attempt to defend people who have lionized the Tea Party and the Republican opposition to health care, but have now discovered that.
Shorter Chuck Lane: "Can you believe that Barack Obama is actually lending support to his political allies -- how ghastly. Gabrielle Giffords must be rolling over in her grave. .
As Bahrain, Libya, and Wisconsin burn, I've been in San Antonio for a Liberty Fund conference on "Strategy and Liberty in Thucydides Peloponnesian War". There are sixteen participants, sporting a reasonably diverse set of understandings of the relationship between the state and international politics....
When I see that Michael Bay has produced a movie based on a James Frey novel, I...well, an utter lack of talent has never necessarily been a barrier in the.
The House vote to end Planned Parenthood funding would make very little sense -- in some alternate universe where people who want to criminalize abortion were primarily concerned about protecting.