Author: Real History Lisa

I was inspired by BooMan’s post re Iran Contra to revisit this speech, one of my early forays into Real History. Robert Parry spoke at an event in Los Angeles sponsored by FAIR. Parry, currently the proprietor of...

I’m not kidding. Your vote is seriously at risk, and we have possibly only the next two years to fix it. Two years into Bill Clinton’s term, we lost Congress, and didn’t gain it back until nearly twelve years...

Los Angeles is busily preparing for the Super Bowl of the Entertainment Industry, the Oscars. The Hollywood and Highland complex that hosts the Kodak Theater has been bristling with security for days, guarding the newly...

There are a lot of good minds in the blogosphere with time on their hands, who care passionately about the issues and read blogs all day long. But many of these same people have never read a bill, including the ones they comment...

I’m glad that Booman did not follow the mob and join in the anti-Caroline hysteria, neatly disguised (however thinly) as anti-dynasty hysteria. Dynasties can be good and bad. Would Jane and Markos have also opposed the...