History
President Bush carried every state of the old Confederacy in 2004, most by substantial margins. White people in those states have generally supported the President's Iraq policies by greater margins than people in the rest of the country. Which is odd, because most white Southerners are familiar with
History
A minor buzzword on the right wing of the blogosphere has been "Jacksonian", used to describe populists who support the occupation of Iraq. But anyone who is familiar with Andrew Jackson will know how bitterly he resented the British occupation of his native South Carolina during the Revolutionary
Military
The blog Belmont Club has kept up a running commentary from late April through now on the military situation in Fallujah. It argues that the situation is nowhere near as bleak as the press is portraying it. Worth reading.
Military
Kevin Drum points to a post by Matthew Yglesias about the stereotype that Arabs understand only violence and compulsion. Sad to say, it is an old stereotype… [A] host of preconceived inherited notions about the Algerian were accepted uncritically [by the French settlers of the 1950s], without examining either their
Houston
The University of Houston football team will play in the Hawai'i Bowl on Christmas Day, but few Cougar fans will make the trip. As a result, the UH athletic department (apparently taking an idea from CoogFans) is allowing people to buy tickets to the game for soldiers and