Forget the Alamo?
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
All things political. If you are reading this, you are doing something political. If you talk to someone about this later, you are doing something political. Basically anything that involves another person is probably going to be political as well as social. So yes. What I’m saying is that sex is political and dinner is political. So much for avoiding politics during dinner. Try to enjoy both activities anyway.
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
Texas calls what it does for the primary election an open primary. There really isn’t an animal called open primary. What they mean by open is that it there is no membership in a party required to vote in that…
This is re: Dean Phillips’ appearance on the Bulwark today. He’s interesting but not going to be the nominee. He’s no more in touch with people than anyone else in DC. America is not center-right as he describes. Not since…
A Democrat takes Santos’ Republican seat with a 7-point margin in the runoff election held yesterday (h/t to Beau) It looks like it’s going to be a good year for Democrats. Everyone take two deep breathes. Hold the last one.…
The pundits think the election season has stared already. The Republican hate pageant has indeed started, but the political season has yet to get into full swing. Iowa is only important because conservatives want it to be important. That’s why,…
CATO was my first and last lifeline into and out of the cult that is American libertarianism. They do a lot of stuff that looks good on paper, it just fails in execution. Over and over again as the future…
Politics as a practice, whatever it’s professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams (Wikipedia, Wikiquote) The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff I have toyed many times with writing a politics 101 primer. (I’ve even published…
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME what’s the hardest part about spending so much time downrange, my answer remains the same as it was after my first deployment in 2006: Coming home is the hardest part. How do you explain combat to…
In America, the coup of Sept. 11, 1973, “galvanized public opinion in a way that no other activity, no other coup, no other military dictatorship in Latin America did,” says Joe Eldridge, a longtime human rights advocate who was in…
This has been a long time coming. I’m talking fifty years in the making, not just the last six hellish years that resulted from his mishandling the leadership of the US government. He was always doing the shit he’s now…