Today is the 150th anniversary of Mississippi's secession from the Union. To commemorate that, I'm posting "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union." -- Mississippi's equivalent of the Declaration of Independence. This is what the CSA was fighting for, in the ( Read more... )

I got an A on my "Republicans are assholes" history term paper ( Read more... )

Living down to the stereotype in Georgia

GOP staffer sends racist "Historical Keepsake Photo"Sherri Goforth, executive assistant to Tennessee State Representative Diane Black (R-Gallatin) emailed a racist image to colleagues. After getting publicly called out on it, she apologized, saying she'd accidentally sent it to the wrong people. In other words she didn't apologize for sending out ( Read more... )

Okay, maybe not all conservatives... but enough. More than enough ( Read more... )