Month: June 2015

My predecessor as Web Editor at the Washington Monthly, Ryan Cooper, has a book review in the latest issue of the magazine. He takes a look at the work of political scientists Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox: Running from...

This morning I am going to quote from South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes of Secession which they issued on December 20, 1860, more than three months before Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office and was inaugurated as...

Remember this solemn parole of honor? The official surrender document of Lee’s troops to the Union Army, signed at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865: We, the undersigned Prisoners of War, belonging to the Army of...

In his recent post Why Does S. Carolina Love Their Treason Flag? Booman rhapsodizes panty-twistingly over the current Confederate flag brouhaha being waged in the media (and in the halls of...

I carry a heavy skepticism of Gallup polling, but if their finding is true that Americans would sooner vote for an atheist presidential candidate than a socialist one, I think the brainwashing has gone further than I ever...