I hate to quibble with this post on Saint John McCain by Ben Adler since I agree with his conclusions. Ben explores the bizarre phenomenon in which gullible pundits refuse to believe their lying eyes and convince themselves that...
Read More[Cross-posted at Progressive Historians.] In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner penned The Significance of the Frontier in American History, the monograph that inaugurated the study of cultural history and identified one of the...
Read MoreLets see if this story makes you mad or not. Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic candidate to be the next governor of New York, has received a check for $50,000 dollars from a prominent Republican. Patrick Barrett, the former head of...
Read MoreNo end in sight: The U.S. military will likely maintain or possibly even increase the current force levels of more than 140,000 troops in Iraq through next spring, the top US. commander in the Middle East said Tuesday in one of...
Read MoreHere is the AP story. Here is the data from CIA on Thailand’s political system. Executive branch: chief of state: King PHUMIPHON Adunyadet (since 9 June 1946) head of government: Prime Minister THAKSIN Chinnawat (since 9...
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