Newt Gingrich is an embrassment to the historical profession. Not only is he corrupt, but his dissertation defended Belgian rule of the Congo, which really sums up the man. He throws historical references around with abandon, but it's entirely unclear whether the gasbag knows what...
wingnut butchery of history
First, she confused her John Waynes, and now her John Adamses. Shorter Michele Bachmann: I don't care if John Quincy Adams was only nine, he was a founding father.
Shorter Maggie Gallagher: "Roe v. Wade helped destroy the country by reducing the number of unwanted births that would otherwise result from anal sex." And the nuttiness doesn't even end.
I know we've dealt with part of this already, but here's more Goldberg tendentiousness: Lepore mentions that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Buck v. Bell case, led by liberal hero Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a passionate eugenicist who considered “building a race” to...
Kevin Levin has been having some fun with Larry Schweikart's recently published -- and oddly titled -- 48 Liberal Lies About American History. (I mean, only 48? Seriously? He couldn't.
There's a passage from Henry Morgenthau's diaries that has been a staple of right-wing New Deal denialism over the years. In it, FDR's Treasury secretary describes a meeting with the.
What the hell? It wouldn't have been difficult to predict this, but the stupidity of Deborah Solomon interviewing John Yoo does indeed approach the density of a degenerate dwarf star. After describing Yoo's new book as "an eloquent, fact-laden history of audacious power grabs by...
The latest tear-jerker from Glenn Beck will remind some readers of that drunken idiot who cornered you at the last reunion and wasted ten minutes of your life describing, with.
I realize this is only scraping midway down the barrel of Glenn Beck's yawning madness, but for reasons I can't adequately defend I was actually listening yesterday when he explained.
From the "Let Me Google That For You" file, here's Jack Moss complaining about Rick Perlstein's outstanding piece in the Post, wherein he notes that -- unlike today -- news anchors of years past never felt obligated to provide airtime to people with dissenting views...
It's nice to see so many wingnuts lifting Helen Thomas -- the recipient of so much of their loathing over the years -- and bearing her aloft on their shoulders.
Um, no one cares what Jose Maria Aznar thinks, but this is an especially useless effort. The comparisons between Iran and the Soviet Union are delivered with the stupidity that's.