FDR was clever enough, after the Pearl Harbor attack, to wait for Hitler to declare war on the US, though some of his advisors wanted him to go ahead and declare war first. It helped unite the US, an… (View Post)

You may want to hide such research from your Guardian-reading friends, but you can learn a lot from the different industrial strategies American states have pursued. For example: About a million vehi… (View Post)

dixiedean asked: "So. Should Biden or Trump be blamed for this non ceasefire?" Yes. (Just as both should be blamed for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Trump negotiated a surrender to th… (View Post)

Off topic, but this may cheer some of you: https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm Mt. Rainier is looking beautiful today, and you can see a variety of views through the web cams … (View Post)

For those unfamiliar with the organization*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Cases_Review_Commission (*Me, for example.) (View Post)