And I hear Manzanar is nice this time of year

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Victor Davis Hanson assumes the Virgil Goode position on immigration:Remember that many of the 9/11 terrorist murderers had lived for long periods in the United States -- dressing, talking, and entertaining themselves like Americans, as they despised the very culture they apparently enjoyed.The father of the...

A Passing Unmourned

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Enjoy sharing the hotseat with Augusto Pinochet. In fairness, you made the General look like a rank amateur.... to pre-empt misunderstanding, I don't think his ouster was worth the bones of a single Prussian Grenadier, I'm sure that his execution will have no effect on the...

C.D. Alston Day

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Chris Bray at Historiblogography urges us to celebrate December 29 as C.D. Alston Day, in honor of the Air Force Brigadier General who predicted confidently one year ago that Iraqi.

Webster

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Read Loomis' nice essay on Daniel Webster. Webster is among the most forgotten of the forgotten legislative titans of the 19th century, although I think that, outside of Lexington, even.

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