Benjamin Harrison, in a letter to the Virginia Baptist Convention, 21 May 1892:Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of crime; they brutalize the participants and shame our Christian civilization. I have not time to explain...
Politico, via Drezner:John McCain's campaign is using their campaign website to encourage supporters to post supportive comments on political blogs, including the most well-known liberal site in the blogosphere. And.
Shorter Joe Lieberman:What America needs right now is a president who -- like his cold war predecessors -- responds to every conceivable threat by launching disastrous, multi-decade wars that wreck.
You know, it was really nice yesterday to see so many conservative bloggers -- like Michelle Malkin, or this happy fellow here -- taking a few moments to express their sympathies for Ted Kennedy and his family. But I'm wondering if there isn't anything less plausible...
Make it stop:If I'm not mistaken Terrry McAuliffe just announced two new goalposts.1. Hillary has gotten more votes and delegates since March 4th.2. Hillary has gotten more votes in a.
Reproductive healthcare in prisons in the U.S. sucks.First, there were prisons that were refusing to allow pregnant inmates to get abortions, even when the women could pay for the procedures.
Ronald Reagan, during remarks at the signing of the Just Say No Week proclamation, 20 May 1986:Because of these grassroots efforts, all of us, inside government and out, are seeing a change of attitude about drug abuse. Public awareness has increased dramatically in the past several...
The greatest hitting catcher ever retires.Whether he is the greatest catcher ever is tough to say, of course, since it all comes down to how much the defensive edge of.
I predict that if Barack Obama wins a double digit victory in Kentucky today, Senator Clinton will concede. Judging solely by conversation with my small group of Lexington friends, this.
So the National Fatherhood Initiative -- one of the great sluice boxes for wingnut welfare -- has linked arms with the tee-totalers at Anheuser-Bush to create a site called "Positive Parenting," which aims to provide wholesome advice to anyone seeking to discourage their teens from drinking....
GOP vote suppression guru Hans Von Spakovsky cries in the Wall Street Journal about unfairly being denied a spot in the FEC for such trivial matters as lying to the.
As Vito Fossella ends his political career in disgrace, let us remember such things as his belief that the Constitution of the United States should be amended to explicitly make.