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
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 afte
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 Diss
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
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 – 48th Texas – 47th Virginia – 44th If you are […]
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 subsequent to an
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. Real
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. The structure of the conference is quite interesting, with a […]
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 mass-production film business. If yo
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