Over the weekend this country lost another American hero from World War II and my family lost a dear friend. Joseph Weiner was 17 years old when he landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. From there he fought his way across Europe and in the process was awarded two Purple Hearts and five [...]
Current Affairs
Like many of you I am getting a real kick out of reading the secession petitions that are currently flooding the White Houses’s “We the People” website. In fact, it’s actually downright cute. Think about it. Americans from every region of the country requesting that the federal government allow their state to secede. The fire-eaters [...]
At the risk of sounding corny I do have to say that there is something magical about taking part in a national election. Today was my first time voting in my new home of Boston. The scene may have been unfamiliar and the method for casting my ballot was certainly different, but there was nothing [...]
The decision to delay the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln until after November 6 is a facile attempt to disassociate it from the presidential election. It’s unavoidable and doomed to give us a skewed view not only of our own political climate, but that of the 1860s as well. Hurricane Sandy may have caused unprecedented [...]
Update: Andrew Sullivan attempts to explain his statement, but only manages to dig a deeper hole for himself. According to Andrew Sullivan, the Confederacy lives or at least the racism that pervaded those specific states during the Civil War era and it may decide the 2012 election. More specifically Sullivan argued this morning on ABC’s [...]
Update: Perhaps Burstein and Isenberg should be more concerned about one of their own. Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg believe that news of Fareed Zakaria’s recent admission that he lifted part of a recent op-ed on gun control from one written by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker is evidence that journalists should not write [...]
My editor at the Atlantic asked me to revise a recent post on the DNC and the Confederate flag. You can read it below or at the Atlantic. I have no doubt that it will raise the usual cries of South/Confederate heritage bashing from the usual suspects. What I find funny is that the posts [...]
