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Max the lion sez that Memorial Day Weekend is gonna be a roarin' good time.

Yesterday, I finished reading Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of Roman Republic .  Excellent and highly recommended.  Even i...

Marcus Tullius Cicero gets Cato the Younger about right: nam Catonem nostrum non tu amas plus quam ego; sed tamen ille optimo ...

Saw this article today: Would you share a bath with eels?  New exfoliating treatment gains in popularity - but the risks will make your...

To the congress of the United States, and in a particular manner to the representatives of the people in this house, the period of the...

"General [William Henry] Harrison will be our next President, if he lives until the fourth of March next [1841]," said the Hu...

In the first half of the 1830s many of the states of the Union engaged in an orgy of spending to fund internal improvements - principal...

In all the hullaballoo over the debt ceiling and Obamacare negotiations (or non-negotiations) the Democrats have been complaining, amon...

Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234BC-149BC) was a piece of work  Gotta love him.  Who else would toss a senator out of the Senate for e...

Make no mistake, we are at war with untold numbers of barbarians who would kill us and rejoice if they could.  If we continue to pretend...

For reasons unknown, I was leafing (virtually) the other day through Varina Davis's memoir of her late husband, Jefferson Davis , e...

Benjamin “Beast” Butler was not a great officer, but he did amass some notoriety during the war by, among other things, authorizing...

In What the Hell Happened to William Seward? I explored William Seward's pre-Civil War reputation for anti-slavery radicalism in ...

Over at Bull Runnings , Harry Smeltzer has a great interview with Prof. Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College on the occasion of the ...

In a series of posts written a number of years ago, I argued that slavery was a thriving institution in 1860 and that there was every re...

In an important new article, “To Regulate,” Not “To Prohibit”: Limiting the Commerce Power , Barry Friedman and Genvieve Lakier argue t...

Over at the Daily Caller they have produced a Top Ten List of the most badass American political names .  And there, lo and behold, is ...

Do you know John Hughes ?  The excellent City Journal site is currently featuring a wonderful older (but new to me) article on New Yor...