This is the grave of Shelby Cullom. Born in 1829 in Monticello, Kentucky, Cullom's family moved to Illinois when he was an infant. Cullom was a teacher for awhile and then went into politics, being a committed Whig. He was admitted to the bar in...
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This is, in its way, amazing: Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps.
Paul observed recently that the New York Times hired one Chris Buskirk, grand poobah of the Trump propaganda outlet American Greatness. He is back, with some analysis of the Greatest.
I beginning to think our president is not entirely hinged: President Trump feuded with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and threatened to impose penalties on foreign automobile imports Saturday, capping an acrimonious meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations that further frayed ties between...
This is the grave of Dan Rostenkowski. Born in 1928 in Chicago to a Polish immigrant family, Rostenkowski grew up in politics. His father was a ward captain and that.
This is the first post in a new LGM series that will likely involve a number of writers. The average LGM writer drinks quite a bit more beer than the.
Your daily update on the moral turpitude that is the United States government. A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an...
Jeff Sessions's farcical effort to take away protection for people with pre-existing conditions is something that should be highlighted for the midterms. And smart Democrats are talking about nothing but.
The thing about old white male plutocrats is that even if they're generally liberal they can have appalling gender politics: Soros, who said he wants to avoid dividing the party,.
A friend who is in the finance world evaluates this morning's comments from America's political leader: These Trump comments after bailing on the G-7 early are fucking mind blowing. Yes, I know he is a dim witted asshole who somehow became POTUS, but he is accelerating...
We're doomed! RealClearPolitics generic House ballot average on June 8:2010: GOP 42.8%, Dem 42.3%2014: GOP 41.8%, Dem 41.3%2018: Dem 46.0%, GOP 38.4%— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 8, 2018 Sargent has.
Being constitutionally disinclined to stay home for more than a few days at a time, I was roaming around northwest Pennsylvania yesterday and visited Pithole City, which was a oil.