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True. Mises was a POS either way.

He also was specifically referencing Italian Fascism, given the quote is from 1927.

Clemente's death is even more depressing considering that he was flying down to try and keep the hands of the Somoza government off the relief packages so they could actually reach victims of the quake. Because if the great Roberto Clemente is there in person, surely not even Somoza would be so...

On November 7, 1861, Ulysses S. Grant led an ordered "feint" that he accidentally on purpose turned into a sharp little fight at Belmont, Missouri, when he and 3,000 Union troops disembarked from troopships on the Mississippi to attack a forward Rebel position near the heavily fortified...

I look forward to reading it! This is one of my personal favorite what ifs. I know you'll do it justice.

Assuming it's in May as posited above, Lee has to pick his poison in just the way Grant had hoped. Either he'll just have to abandon Northern Virginia completely, chased the whole way by the Army of the Potomac looking for the kill, or he'll try to quickly turn and fall on Butler before Grant...

Relocated to Chicago, officially.

Sounds awesome! I don't know much about that era of boxing, but it sounds interesting. Would love to see what you do with it!

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln, 1st State of the Union. Regarding any socialist...

Gonna be in London till Mid-December if anyone's interested in a meetup.

I quite like it from what I've seen of it here and elsewhere. I hope that they eventually do translate it into English, though I know enough French that I can kind of read what they're saying.

It's New Deal Coalition Retained. It's basically a nonsensical Conservative-wank. MLK ends supporting a compromise with segregationists, because reasons.

The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove is pretty bad. Africaan terrorists go back in time to give Bobby Lee AK's and modern medicine to treat his heart condition to make sure slavery and white supremacy wins, but somehow after Lee wins the Africaans lose and Lee ends up becoming president of...