@Steve_Sailer@PincherMartin8 Teddy's father and Churchill's grandfather were pro-Union near contemporaries in NYC during the Civil War. Leonard Jerome, Churchill's maternal gf, defended the NYTimes' printing presses with a Gatling gun during the "draft riots."
@michaelbd In this Israeli diplomat's recounting of LBJ's meeting with PM Eshkol just 6 months after the war, the attack on the Liberty is not mentioned at all. And LBJ wrote in '71 that just 10 sailors were killed, not 34. There was a concerted effort to quash coverage of the attack.
@kausmickey The democratically elected leader of the only Muslim country with nuclear weapons is currently in a dungeon because he was not totally on board with NATO's plan for Ukraine. There's not a lot of "trust" to go around when it comes to Islamic nukes: Iraq's Osirak, Syria's al Kibar.
@jamestalarico@feelsdesperate in his heart of hearts, does he really prefer The Help to, say, Tree Of Life? I have to assume so as it appears he had absolutely no audience at the time.
@MarcoPolo501c3 You are saying it's your considered view that the guy who graduated from law school in 1957 wasn't recently banging a cop? You are out on a limb my friend.
@ScottMcConnell9 Spain, led by your hero Sanchez, just gave citizenship to half a million foreigners, which will no doubt attract ever larger hordes from Africa.
@GrayConnolly Is it your position that the Corn Laws played no role in the deaths by starvation of millions of Irish men, women & children? Or that they did contribute to these deaths, but the benefits of protectionism outweigh these millions of preventable deaths by starvation?
@continetti@Commentary You are too smart to go around making observations about the supposed benefits of the WWII draft based on your viewing of the egregiously schmaltzy Biloxi Blues. It's not a documentary! There's actually not a ton of evidence that the draft contributed to interethnic comity.
@PortfolioArmor@CliffordAsness is absolutely not at all dumb. I am completely gobsmacked that he is unaware of Palmer Luckey, who has been famous and important for years, and has had profiles written of him in pretty much every major msm outlet.