When Franklin D. Roosevelt was Governor of New York, and then President of the United States, one thing that REALLY bugged him was practice, indeed insistence, by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, of ser… (View Post)

Hard for me to see how Haley's response hurts her next month in Iowa or New Hampshire. (View Post)

Lincoln waiting to sign & publish the (First) Emancipation Proclamation until AFTER the Army of the Potomoc turned back Lee's invasion of Maryland at Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) in Sept 1862.… (View Post)

You, and others, are correct that ending slavery was NOT an initial Union war aim, and that Lincoln spent a LOT of time and effort reassuring slave owners and others in Upper South including Border s… (View Post)

As Maine goes, so goes . . . NYT - Maine bans Trump from ballot via ruling by state Secretary of State (Democrat) as insurrectionist. (View Post)