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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 948

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 4, 2021

This is the grave of Strom Thurmond. This malignancy on the world was born James Strom Thurmond, Jr. in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1902, not far from the old plantation of John C. Calhoun. Quite a town. His father was a minor local political figure...

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When the Electoral College Nearly Died

By Erik Loomis

On November 1, 2020

Above right: still the most influential Republican thinker on civil rights I was this many days old when I found out how close the nation came to abolishing the Electoral.

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From the Dept. of False Equivalence

By davenoon

On January 11, 2010

There's not much to add to what Ta-Nehisi Coates has to say about the false equivalence between Trent Lott's segregationist nostalgia and Harry Reid's linguistic incompetence. Still, it's worth remembering.

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