Will Barack Obama bring back slavery to the United States?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  July 16th at 08:26 AM  | 

Without a doubt November is going to bring us the single most important election in the United States since 1860. At that time too the country was on the verge of an irreparable breach, and by the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March of 1861 seven of the eleven eventual confederate states had seceded, with the remaining four gone two months later. I’m certainly not | Read More »

Obama’s unconvincing feint to the center

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:27 PM  | 

Reading President Obama’s piece in the Wall Street Journal last week made me think of something Tom Dye, one of my Political Science professors at Florida Sate used to say when discussing the Soviet approach to arms negotiations: “If it’s someone’s goal to kill you, you should not be surprised to discover that they are more than willing to lie about it in the first | Read More »