I guess a non-Trump attacking Haley campaign has at least 3 potential objectives: 1. The VP nomination. Always valuable in its own right, particularly so with an obese, crime-prone, term-expired 78-y… (View Post)

These attacks are, if anything, more likely to strengthen Western resolve; it reminds us of the inhuman nature of Putin. I don't see any Russian strategy; just a dictator throwing a tantrum. (View Post)

On topic, the question for predicting the Iowa caucuses is always who has the largest number of committed followers? Wide-but-shallow support doesn't get you anywhere there; deep support does. But su… (View Post)

Not really. It required a SCOTUS which ruled slavery unconstitutional. And the South had enough experience of judicial manipulation of the constitution - Dred Scott and all that - to know it was poss… (View Post)

They also believed that even if Lincoln wasn't going to do lead an assault on slavery himself - and he well might - the North would do so sooner or later, one way or another. And that it had the econ… (View Post)