See how far you can get into their marketing gibberish before you give up. There’s so many things wrong with … Continue reading Christopher Nolan is Making a Movie About Robert Oppenheimer, and Variety Wants Me to Care
This tweet by Mickey Kaus reminds me of an irritating chesnut that pro-immigration types love to trot out whenever they … Continue reading Please Stop Using The Indians in Immigration Arguments
I’m starting to think I should keep all my short-form content free on Amazon. Sarah Hoyt advises it, and now … Continue reading I Get Bad Reviews
150 years ago, today, my great-great-great-grand-uncle, Dallas Patrick, a private in 11th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry
(40th Volunteers), was taking part in the largest land battle ever to take place on the North American continent. I’ve been to Gettysburg on several occasions, and some part of me would kind of like to be there to see the re-enactment of Pickett’s Charge. But another part of me is just fine with sitting here and breaking down some of the mythic detritus that has gathered around this scar of history. To wit:
Early Advocate of women’s education and abolition. Presided over the Senate’s first impeachment trial, that of Supreme Court Justice Samuel … Continue reading Little-Known Facts About Aaron Burr
Face in the Blue has a most excellent question of great historical and political import: In a Mass Knife Fight to the Death Between Every American President, Who Would Win and Why? Which brought to my mind the bit of campaign fluff about whether Barak Obama is the kind of guy the average American would enjoy drinking with, especially compared to Mitt Romney, who as a Mormon, does not drink. So I thought I’d do a brief peruse of our 44 heads of state and figure which ones would be the most fun to sit down with at a table in a bar and knock back a few. These are my utterly unfair guesses: Continue reading “So Which President, Living or Dead, Would You Like to Drink With?”
Daley Gator and I have a long exchange in the comments of his blog about the origins of the Civil … Continue reading I Get Into Arguments About the Civil War and Gun Control.
The usual round of books and look-backs on the War of 1812 commenceth. Austin Bay seizes upon a book on … Continue reading Scrapping With the British Navy
In National Review of all places. (h/t: Memeorandum) I’m skipping over the “you know, the wogs never had it so … Continue reading Conrad Black Says Some Rather Silly Things About the American Revolution
It was our first official war, and we very nearly lost it. Today it is remembered chiefly for giving birth … Continue reading The War of 1812
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