Month: July 2008
The former North Carolina Senator has shuffled off this mortal coil. All condolences to his family but — particularly given the media tendency to downplay these kinds of details when discussing
Abraham Lincoln, special session message, 4 July 1861: It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South be called “secession” or “r
Roughly 1 in 10 pregnancies in the Arab world ends in an abortion, despite draconian abortion bans in most countries. Just another reminder that the reproductive policies favored by John McCain, the R
I agree with Sanchez and Patashnik that there’s no necessary contradiction between Obama’s nominal opposition to same-sex marriage and opposition to the California Restoration of Bigotry i
Matt writes: As you can perhaps tell from my dyspeptic response to some of our Ideas Festival sponsors’ efforts to brand themselves as “green,” (see also Boeing’s hilarious han
Harry Truman, statement on the independence of the Philippines, 3 July 1946: The independence achieved today by the Philippines comes after a period of forty-eight years of American sovereignty over t
Who killed whom here?
This is what I’ve been up to for two of the last three weeks: