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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 823

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This is the grave of Sam Ervin. Born in 1896 in Morganton, North Carolina, Ervin would sum up the complexities and contradictions of many southern politicians in the twentieth century. He went to the University of North Carolina, graduated in 1917, and then went to war....

Crime pays

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Well it does if you're Ken Starr: From wikipedia: Patrick Dennehy was a junior forward who transferred to Baylor University following his sophomore season at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 2001–2002.[1] In the summer of.

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America needs you Harry Truman

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I'm working up an article about Harry Truman that will feature some BOMBSHELL REVELATIONS, although somebody has to agree to publish it first, so who knows when these will be unleashed on the world. In the interim, here are a few tidbits that I don't think...
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Republicans are bad for democracy

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Glad to see a new working paper by my colleague Jake Grumbach getting a lot of attention. The latest writeup is at Vox: In late March, Georgia passed a restrictive new voting law that, in effect, permits the Republican state legislature to put partisan operatives in charge of...

Pop Up?

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Hey all, We are receiving reports in comments that there has been a new pop-up ad that launches on a post-click. We haven't authorized anything of the sort, and would.

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So much of the debate over college loan forgiveness revolves around narratives of upper middle class kids being forgiven $200,000 because they majored in underwater dance or some such thing. But what this completely ignores is the number of college students who are outright poor people,...

Monday NatSec Roundup

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By Armando Mancini - https://www.flickr.com/photos/armando46/4686520932/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12018790 To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by. Lotta detail here on.

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