Perhaps ancient Egyptian funerary rites where just one family's way of coping with hoarders.

Dec. 7, 1941: What a preemptive first strike actually looks like.

We visited the Smithsonian National Museum of American History the other day. The museum itself is spectacular, with many, many very moving pieces on display. However, the museum as a whole left me feeling very frustrated. ( And I'll tell you why behind the cut. )

CNN is currently running a story about a 20th Century travel guide that listed safe places for African Americans to go. The story was very interesting to me, not just from a historical perspective, but because I immediately saw parallels to today's websites that are dedicated to listing safe places for lesbian and gay travelers ( Read more... )

Reagan was a moderate.

The greatest lesson of history is that there are infinite lessons from history.

The Pilgrims were liberals.

Government will grow smaller. The only question is whether we're willing to make the cuts necessary for a controlled shrinkage or whether we'd rather have a Soviet-style collapse down the line.

( This got surprisingly long, but I hope it's interesting. )

This post is addressing everyone out there who is drawing Hitler mustaches and swastikas on pictures of President Obama ( Read more... )