Rhode Island's own: When Fr. John McLaughlin ran against the Vietnam war and won the GOP nomination for US Senate in Rhode Island pic.twitter.com/3lCGyTX5vV— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) August 17, 2016 This is a bit misleading, as McLaughlin was already well on his way to becoming a...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="432"] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18092683[/caption] John McLaughlin has passed. A troubling presence in many ways, he nevertheless played a critical role in how much of a generation conceived of political space. .
I am soon returning to East Coast Exile, reality, and regular blogging. Until then, this. 1980's Soviet Estonian TV ad for minced chicken meat by filmmaker Harry Egipt. A vegetarian's.
Leo Botstein has been, among many other things, president of Bard College for the past four decades. This profile, published in the New Yorker a couple of years ago, describes Botstein as being extremely good at raising money but even better at spending it: Botstein has...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446"] *sniff* Onward and upward, guys.[/caption] The Nightly Show has been cancelled. I'm sad. I'm not sure the show ever quite found its footing, and the.
Woo-hoo America! Berks County DA John Adams also said at a Monday press conference that the couple had previously had “domestic disputes,” and that police were called to the home.
Having it all ways, with Kelly Ayotte: Sen. Kelly Ayotte has often found herself in a familiar spot with Donald Trump: Keeping her distance. But in this fiercely independent state, Ayotte is gambling that voters might reward her for rebuking her own party's nominee. She has...
On August 16, 1819, British cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 workers in a field in Manchester, England who had gathered to demand parliamentary representation and the repeal of.
OHMYGOD SAVE US JOE BIDEN WE'RE DOOMED! Donald Trump’s post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it’s really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing.
I am pleasantly shocked that the NFL Seniors Committee named former Seahawks safety Kenny Easley their finalist for the Hall of Fame. Easley's career ended at the age of 28 because of a kidney injury but he was as good as his contemporary Ronnie Lott during...
Shorter verbatim Rudy Guiliani: "“Before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States." The one, and only, useful thing Donald Trump has.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640"] Sketch of Tsingtao, 1906. From a photo taken by pratyeka at the Qingdao Beer Musem, 2004-10-03., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47864832[/caption] Because at some point in every boy's life,.