I shit you not. Theft • At 7:56 p.m. Sunday, a 36-year-old man reported the theft of a Sarah Palin cut-out from the Alaska Shirt Company in the 400 block of Franklin Street. The cut-out has an estimated value of $1,400. No word on whether Rich Lowry is back in town this week.
Month: July 2011
My latest at WPR expresses skepticism regarding the practical import of a realist/neocon divide in the GOP: However, it is probably too soon to expect the return of a “realist” foreign policy esta
Yesterday’s big tabloid story actually has some things in common with our discussion about the DSK prosecution yesterday. Correct me if I’m wrong — I don’t claim to have fo
Alyssa Rosenberg (whose work I think is fantastic) poses a great question: …it struck me all over again how few movies we have about the Revolutionary War. I’d looked into this a couple of years ago, but it’s really kind of stunning. The success of America’s war for independence from Great Britain is incredibly remarkable, […]
This occasional series will highlight moments in American labor and working-class history writ large, including the history of American radicalism and the history of slavery, which too often takes a b
I agree with Nocera: For the life of me, though, I can’t see what Vance did wrong. Quite the contrary. The woman alleged rape, for crying out loud, which was backed up by physical (and other) eviden
New Hampshire’s list is very weak. Basically, it’s suffered from being a very small state bordering the state with probably the most prestigious list, Massachusetts. If you created a list of political figures born in New Hampshire, it would be a lot more impressive. New Hampshire also suffers from a history of not reelecting people […]
Global Post manages to interview a member of Assad’s army. Fascinating, disturbing, very very interesting. Perhaps most interesting to me was the breakdown of how hierarchy operates in the Syria
If we can infer from their preferred prospective GOP candidate, their worldview is a logical extension of the Sermon on the Mount: savage attacks on education and services for poor people and murder
Speaking of the Newtster, let’s review: The fact that George Wallace really wasn’t that racist, and probably only supported segregation for careerist reasons isn’t a point in his favor. And so with one of the “narrow constituencies” that was once supposed to help form Newt’s unconventional coalition: As speaker of the House in the 1990s, […]
In the kind of article that makes you wonder if the journalist in question is in on the joke or not, Newt Gingrich has finally uncovered some of the vacation-generated Deep Thoughts that will surely p
This week, I’d like to highlight a recent discovery, Native American Netroots. This superb blog mostly consists of lengthy posts on Native American history which are well-written and enjoyable t