Lyndon Johnson’s 1948 Senate race notwithstanding, the dead cannot vote in Texas.

-- From today's Federal Circuit Court ruling that Texas is violating the Voting Rights Act by requiring photo id.

I wondered what would happen if I looked at the correlation between unemployment and presidential approval/disapproval ratings, having claimed in a number of comments this last year that the economy is the super-dominant factor in the mood of the country right now and, implicitly, generally how the country views a President.

( Wonder no more )

The quiz itself is here. Don't look at the answers until you've taken the quiz. (or else).

( The real dope )

To meet the new enemy threat and regain the initiative, according to
Wheeler, Westmoreland would need more men: "The add-on requested
totals 206,756 spaces for a new proposed ceiling of 731,756."

-- February 22nd, 1968

and are we therefore doomed to repeat them?

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan ( Read more... )