Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Transcript , and if I’d known there would be a transcript this time, I wouldn’t have had to sit through that crap-fest. (Update: except the...

SC Governor Coleman Blease writes a letter to the NYT , which had rather mildly suggested that he might have better uses for his time than...

British “Justice Minister” Kenneth Clarke blames the riots on a “feral underclass, cut off from the mainstream in everything but its materi...

Truman Newberry, who was Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Navy, is charged with murder after running over an 8-year-old girl (or 7 years old, a...

The mayor of Los Angeles orders the route of the Labor Day parade altered so it doesn’t go past the county jail where the McNamara brothers...

The worst thing about Obama junking his plans to reverse Bush’s lowering of standards for air pollution is, of course, that people will die...

In Berlin, 200,000 attend a Socialist-organized protest against “the infamous war agitation” which is agitating for a war with France over ...

The California congressional delegation is pressuring the State Department to press Mexico to sell the US a strip of the Imperial Valley 50...

President Taft bans cock fights, dog fights and bull fights in the Panama Canal Zone. Headline of the Day -100: “Few Hoboes at Convention....

Mitt Romney, 2011: I’m only doubling my mansion. Mitt Romney, 2007: My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo. Coincidence?

A New York state law goes into effect requiring the registration of all firearms and banning the carrying of blackjacks. Another new law m...

Belgium is preparing for war, creating a military council to determine how to keep France, Germany and/or Britain from violating its border...

Indy : “Israeli Military to Equip Jewish Settlers with Gas and Grenades.”

Today, Obama spoke to the American Legion’s annual conference. He found something good to say about every war every member of the Legion m...

On the Today show, Dick Cheney explains the continuing benefits of having invaded Iraq: “What would’ve happened this week if Moammar Gadhafi...

In a speech in Virginia, Taft says that “those of us who study the question at all know that the hope of the negro is in his white neighbor...

The British government is following the lead of American anti-abortion states like South Dakota by stripping the funding for abortion couns...

Headline of the Day -100: “BATHTUB TRUST KILLED.; Government Also Reaches an Agreement with the Electrical Trust.” I hope they didn’t fidd...

Headline of the Day -100: “Huckleberries’ Pow-Wow.” There’s a Native American tribe called Huckleberries? Mmm, Hamburgers: Headline : “Ka...

William Van Schaick, captain of the paddle steamer General Slocum when it caught fire in the East River in 1904, killing over 1,000 people o...