Month: October 2014

    Anyone who thought that Barack Obama, having said boo about the Bush Torture Regime while campaigning for president in 2008, would denounce this darkest day in modern American history after taking office was...

Senate elections in South Dakota aren’t necessarily nail-biters, but occasionally they can be. Back in 1996, which was a presidential election year, Democrat Tim Johnson defeated incumbent Republican Larry Pressler by a...

Piggybacking off of Herr Booman’s earlier post about Nazis in post-war America, I thought we should have some appropriate music. So for your enjoyment, some Tom Lehrer: Open lunchtime thread.

I’m keeping an eye on early voting statistics because they are at least real instead of theoretical. However, they are difficult to interpret. From what I see so far, the Democrats have reason for optimism in North...

In the immediate post-war period, if you wanted good intelligence on what was happening in Europe, and particularly what was happening with the Soviets and Soviet influence within European societies, it was hard to find better...