The State Board of Education last week voted to rewrite history books. The new textbooks make American involvement in the slave trade sound less….what’s the word? Bad. They also rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy who has been unfairly vilified just because in the course of being wrong about everything he was a vile, belligerent drunk who ruined...

Paul’s theory is that if a business wants to post a “no blacks” sign, free market principles would ensure that the business went under. What a fascinating idea — one which was actually tried for over 200 years in this country at the expense of the dignity, economic well-being, and frequently lives of African-Americans. Inconveniently...

Today’s conservatives are Tea Party Patriots, small government activists, and Scott Brown populists. Buchanan sounds like an escaped war criminal. It’s time for MSNBC to give him das boot and let him goose-step into the sunset. The rest is...

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Yesterday’s elections in the UK produced no outright parliamentary majority for any party. David Cameron’s Conservatives won the most seats (no doubt to the delight of teabaggers everywhere), but still fell short. In order to become prime minister, Cameron will therefore need Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats to form a coalition. Is it possible?...