Here's The Film About What An American Civil War Could Look Like (+ The Bombed Out Cities)
What Kind Of American Are You? The new film, Civil War, is playing in Burbank today. It premiered at South by Southwest in March. The...
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Howie Klein
Jan 143 min read
Tomorrow Is GOP Caucus Day In Iowa-- Utterly Meaningless, But The Conservatives Spent $300 Million
All Losers, No Winners My grandfather’s rural village, in what is now Ukraine, had been decimated by Cossacks. He was a teenager— and a...
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Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20235 min read
Nikki Haley Won't Survive A Trump Win In South Carolina, Which Is All But Certain
Nikki Haley has a better chance to win the GOP primary in New Hampshire than she does in South Carolina where she was once governor. The...
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Howie Klein
Dec 5, 202314 min read
We Didn't Drive Old Dixie Down Deep Enough... And Now We Have Trump Threatening Our National Unity
Sen Charles Sumner regretted Jeff Davis wasn't shot; he'd feel the same about Trump In the late ‘60s, I was running the student...
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Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Will It Take Bloodshed For Americans To Wake Up To The Danger Trump & His MAGA Movement Pose?
In 1860 The Freedom Caucus Was Known As The Fire Eaters On February 4, 1861, the rebel governments of South Carolina, which had seceded...
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Howie Klein
Jul 7, 20236 min read
How Much Of A Drag Will Trump Be On The GOP Next Year?
I’ve been reading Eli Merritt’s fascinating new book, Disunion Among Ourselves. He starts with this missive: "The politics of those years...
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Howie Klein
Jun 19, 20231 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Happy Juneteenth!
by Noah Today, we celebrate what has been called the official end of slavery in the United States, ie. June 19th, 1865, but please note...
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Noah
May 29, 20231 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Remembering The Massachusetts 54th
by Noah It somehow seems even more appropriate than ever this Memorial Day to offer a special remembrance and recognition to the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20215 min read
Would Things Be Different Now If The Secessionists Were Harshly Dealt With After The Civil War?
I used to go out with a wonderful girl from Alabama; her uncle was the Attorney General while we were seeing each other and he prosecuted...
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Howie Klein
Jun 23, 20216 min read
Time To Throw The Bums Out?
I guess at the time-- when the conservative slave states wanted to break away-- holding the union together was a good idea. And giving...
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Howie Klein
Jun 18, 20214 min read
History: After The Civil War, The Traitors Were Coddled, Not Executed-- And Now Look What We Have
Juneteenth has been an official state holiday in Texas since since 1980 but yesterday it may have been awkward for some teachers to...
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Howie Klein
Apr 22, 20219 min read
The Myth Of The Lost Cause And The Hideous Racism Still Poisoning America Every Damn Day
Imagine, if you can, a school of people-- even historians, celebrating Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox," because he was "a...
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