Continuing the conversation about military bases named after generals who betrayed their country with TPM Reader EL …
Amplifying reader CH’s thoughts, I would encourage proponents of tackling the enshrinement of Confederate generals as the namesakes for US Army bases to consider carefully about what battles we want to pick.
You point out quite rightly that the recasting of the war as a “useful past” which set actual treason aside in favor of a shared memory of martial honor was–along with common embrace of white supremancy–an essential component of the post-Reconstruction sectional rapproachment.
3 year old accidentally shot with rifle in Louisiana after rifle was knocked over by another child.
[Jonathan Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and revelations in his new book. – jmm]
Day Two:
One of the most important stories of the campaign was what I call “The Voter Suppression Project”–a concerted effort to tilt the election to the Republicans. Like the Tea Party, it was not dictated from Washington but Republicans in the states knew just what to do to make sure voting rules prevented Obama from winning. Read More
Tomorrow afternoon at TPMPrime we’re going to be doing a live chat with Joe Muto, the author of An Atheist In the Foxhole. You may know him better as the Fox “mole” who wrote on Gawker a while back about the inside world of Fox and then got found out really quick, canned and then … well, now he’s written a book. Join us at him at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon and get your questions in now.