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Anyone who lives in the Philadelphia area might want to check out this production next month. The subject matter is hard to beat, and having seen J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, I can vouch for his immense talent. If anyone here is able to go, let us know what you think! (Image cou...

The thing about the dead monkey cartoon that really stuck with me — is the fact that I was not surprised. I kind of expected it. I certainly expected the reaction from the right wing, who automatically began denying it had anything at all to do with race, was just another example of Rev. Al Sh...

My partner-in-crime, Sarah Jaffe, is on deadly point re: cartoonist Sean Delonas and the now-infamous New York Post race fail: Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post said on MSNBC (at about 3:55 of the video) that the problem might’ve been caught if there was better diversity in the workplace. For...

Today we honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln, who worked tirelessly and successfully to reduce slavery. Under his leadership, Congress passed laws requiring more humane treatment of enslaved persons, proper slave health care, and preventing slave owners from separating slave familes. Lincoln is also...

Today is the bicentennial of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. As I noted a while back, there are plenty of comparisons being made between the two because of their shared birthday. (Besides the Hitchens article I mentioned in the earlier post, see also here, here, here, and here -- and that&#...

Senator Sam Brownback recounted the story some of you might remember from the film Amazing Grace , where William Wilberforce was close to a victory over slavery until someone slipped opera tickets to his allies on the day of the vote -- and he was in for another 20-some years of fighting. He also me...

Here I am at Blogs4Life, where Reverend Samuel Mosteller of Pro-Life Unity just delivered a sobering talk about some of the internal discussions and questions the pro-life movement needs to be raising. Among other things, we need to figure out why we're not reaching the black community with our ...

Some random musings on the day after.... That sea of humanity that crowded the national Mall yesterday left behind a sea of garbage. They want Obama to change the world, but they won't help by picking up their own trash? Rahm Emmanuel was caught on camera blowing raspberries and making a "n...

Carmen D puts the latest iteration of the “Magic Negro” controversy in broader context by revisiting an old post of hers on the original source of the conservative meme, a 2007 LA Times op-ed by author (and OG Vast Left Wing Conspirator) David Ehrenstein: Ehrenstein seems to think that B...