U.S. Politics

[a m ole]

2 minutes ago, villakram said:

If the election contest were decided by popular vote, Trump would have competed for the popular vote. You play by the rules, not how you wish the rules were.

He still thinks he won something he lost, and thinks he'd win it again despite his approval rating tanking.

[StefanAVFC]

40 minutes ago, villakram said:

If the election contest were decided by popular vote, Trump would have competed for the popular vote. You play by the rules, not how you wish the rules were.

A fine point.

Has absolutely nothing to do with what a m ole is saying though.

[HanoiVillan]

5 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

War time? 

To help put minds slightly at ease, it appears that the US is not mobilised for action, at least in terms of aircraft carriers, and that the much ballyhooed 'deployment' of the Carl Vinson was in fact part of a standard patrol passing through on the rounds:

'What with all the North Korea excitement, I thought it might be time to check on what the US Navy’s aircraft carriers are up to. This is always a useful way to distinguish “loud media yelling” from “something that might actually happen”.

[. . .]

So what’s up at the moment? Stennis, Truman, Reagan, and Lincoln – i.e. 40% of the force – are all in deep maintenance periods of one kind or another. It’s important to note that Reagan is the carrier based in Japan and is therefore logically the first to respond to any crisis in North-Eastern Asia. Her maintenance phase, or Selective Restricted Availability, was planned for four months from the 10th of January, so the fact she’s still tied to the pier may mean the work is dragging on, or more problems have been discovered during the work. Bush is deployed in the Persian Gulf, with a good three months of her deployment left to run.

Vinson, the one everyone is excited about, has been operating all year in the Western Pacific. Like Bush, she is mid-deployment and due to head for home towards the end of June. She recently headed back to the Western Pacific from a port call in Singapore.

[. . .]

To sum up: out of the three routine tasks for carriers, one is covered by Bush while Vinson is doubling up on two of them. Overall availability is not unusually low, but it is not high either, as there is one carrier immediately available as a reserve while two reliefs will be needed for sailing dates in May. Vinson‘s recall to the Western Pacific may be more of an indicator that Reagan‘s return to availability is delayed than anything else.

Obviously, even one CVN is serious business. But just as in 2006-2007, there is no evidence of a mobilisation to match the talk.'

http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2017/04/15/blog-like-its-2007/

 

[maqroll]

7 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

War time? 

I think this is just a publicity stunt to make it look like he's credible to his adversaries at home and aggressive to his adversaries abroad. He's a showman, this smacks of showmanship.

[il_serpente]

8 hours ago, villakram said:

If the election contest were decided by popular vote, Trump would have competed for the popular vote. You play by the rules, not how you wish the rules were.

And he would still have lost the popular vote.  He had a ceiling of support even then, and he pretty much reached it.   His voters were very energized anti-establishment and/or anti-Hillary voters whose geographical distribution were ideally suited to the electoral college, whereas Hillary's support consisted of a mixture of true believers and "lesser of two evils"  voters who were heavily concentrated in states where votes of unenthusiastic supporters made no difference to the outcome.  I think she would have generated significantly higher turnout in a national popular vote contest, whereas he was pretty well maxed out.  He certainly wouldn't have overturned a 3 million vote difference.  Remember that his campaign was fueled primarily by free media coverage and publicity that was very much a national phenomenon.  There wasn't a huge groundwork operation that could somehow have been deployed differently.

[Brumerican]

5 hours ago, maqroll said:

I think this is just a publicity stunt to make it look like he's credible to his adversaries at home and aggressive to his adversaries abroad. He's a showman, this smacks of showmanship.

Trump said at the meeting. “North Korea is a big world problem, and it’s a problem we have to finally solve.”

 

Finally solve ...hmmmmmm.

[Awol]

13 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

War time? 

That's pretty ominous. 

[villaglint]

Military action seems to be the only thing that stops his polls falling. For someone who thinks in such simplistic terms it seems pretty obvious he's going to want to keep the focus on military issues for as long as he can, which gives him the air cover to do all the nationalist economic stuff which he believes will get him re-elected.

 

[Daweii]

47 minutes ago, villaglint said:

Military action seems to be the only thing that stops his polls falling. For someone who thinks in such simplistic terms it seems pretty obvious he's going to want to keep the focus on military issues for as long as he can, which gives him the air cover to do all the nationalist economic stuff which he believes will get him re-elected.

 

Same thing George W. Bush did. His tenure in charge wasn't captivating the people until 9/11 saved him. It then allowed the entirety of his next 7 years in charge to be about war and protecting the homeland from terrorists. It would not surprise me if someone in Trumps cabinet has told him that war keeps Presidents in jobs or at least consistent military action does. So it doesn't surprise me that Trump is poking so many beehives right now. If he can start a war especially one with someone equally as unstable he can spin that as doing the US a favour..

[snowychap]

Reports that the Gorka bod is on his way out. Let's hope this means we have to suffer less of him on TV news.

ABC:

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Sebastian Gorka, a top national security advisor to President Donald Trump who has come under scrutiny over alleged ties to a Nazi-aligned group in Hungary, is expected to leave his position at the White House, a senior administration official said Sunday.

The official did not offer details on where Gorka, a member of the White House’s Strategic Initiatives Group, would head to next, but the person said the departure would not be immediate.

 

Edited May 1, 2017 by snowychap

[StefanAVFC]

Snowflake-in-chief strikes again

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WASHINGTON — President Trump cut short an interview with the host of “Face the Nation” on CBS after being asked about his unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped his campaign, saying he was entitled to his own “opinions.”

Mr. Trump, speaking during a prerecorded interview in the Oval Office with John Dickerson that was broadcast on Monday on “CBS This Morning,” grew agitated as the host pressed him on a number of issues, and he reached his breaking point when Mr. Dickerson asked about his bombshell Twitter post from early March describing Mr. Obama as a “sick” man.

“You don’t have to ask me,” the president said, cutting off Mr. Dickerson in midsentence.

“Why not?” the host asked.

“Because I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions,” Mr. Trump shot back.

With that, Mr. Trump terminated what had been an otherwise genial interview.

“O.K., it’s enough,” the president said.

 

[Rodders]

He is SUCH  a bell-end. 
 

[Villaphan04]

 

 

[Straggler]

To be fair to Trump he is shining a much needed light on a neglected and hugely important part of American history.  I Googled why did the American Civil war start and I only got 23,900,000 hits.  It's almost like it never happened.  Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it and I can't stress enough how important it is to get a better understanding of these bigly important questions.  To complete my research I clicked on one of the links and it took me to a list it had compiled of (I believe) secret underground documents that have been trying to piece together the answers to this question even whilst debate on the issue has been suppressed (by Obama).  The list is below for those brave enough to seek it out.  Thank God for Trump and his intellectual curiosity bringing this back out into the open.

General Histories of the Civil War:

1. Richard Beringer, et al, Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986)

2. Louis P. Masur, The Civil War: A Concise History (2011)

3. David Donald, ed., Why the North Won the Civil War (1960)

4. James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982)

5. Steven E. Woodworth, This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War (2011)

6. Michael Fellman, Lesley Gordon & Daniel E. Sutherland, This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath (2005)

7. Herman S. Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983)

8. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the American Civil War (1988)

9. Allan Nevins, The War for the Union (4 vols., 1947-1971)

10. Peter J. Parish, The American Civil War (1975)

11. Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (2000)

 

The Union:

12. William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (2007)

13. Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of the Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983)¿

14. Dale Baum, The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876 (1984)

15. Herman Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (1998)

16. Herman Belz, A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen’s Rights, 1861-1866 (1976, 2000)

17. Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North (2007)

18. Frederick J Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (1987)

19. Allan G. Bogue, The Congressman’s Civil War (1989)

20. Allan G. Bogue, The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate (1981)

21. William C. Harris, Lincoln and the War Governors (2013)

22. Richard J. Carwardine, Lincoln (2003)

23. Gary W. Gallagher, The Union War (2012)

24. David H. Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970)

25. David H. Donald, Lincoln (1995)

26. Frank Freidel, ed., Union Pamphlets of the Civil War (1967)

27. Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2008)

28. Mark E. Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (2006)

29. William Harris, With Charity For All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (1997)

30. Mark E. Neely, Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (2011)

31. E.S. Miers, ed., Lincoln Day-by-Day: A Chronology (1991)

32. Mark E. Neely, The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North (2002)

33. Mark E. Neely, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991)

34. Phillip S. Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994)

35. Elizabeth Leonard, Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (2011)

36. Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (2015)

37. Joel H. Silbey, A Respectable Minority: the Democratic Party in the Civil War Era (1977)

38. Bruce Tap, Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (1998)

39. John M. Taylor, William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s Right-hand Man (1991)

40. Hans L. Trefousse, The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice (1968)

41. Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (1967)

42. Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment and the Abolition of Slavery (2001) ¿

43. Brian McGinty, Lincoln and the Court (2011)

44. Stephen C. Neff, Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War (2011)

45. Mark R. Wilson, The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1862 (2006)¿

46. Harry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959)

47. Daniel Walker Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (1979)

48. Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999)

49. Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (1997)

50. James Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 (1978)

 

The Confederacy:

51. Thomas B. Alexander and Richard Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: A Study of the Influences of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861-1865 (1972)¿

52. Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995)

53. Douglas F. Ball, Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat (1991)

54. Michael B. Ballard, A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy (1997) 

55. Joseph T. Glatthaar, Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee (2011)

56. James Brewer, The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861-1865 (1969)

57. Thomas L. Connelly,  The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (1977)

58. Clement Eaton, A History of the Southern Confederacy (1954)

59. Paul D. Escott, After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism (1978)

60. Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)

61. Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997)

62. Gary W. Gallagher, Lee and His Army in Confederate History (2001)

63. Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (1995)

64. J. Boone Bartholomees, Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (1998)

65. Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006)

66. Mary Chestnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (1981)

67. Malcolm C. McMillan, The Disintegration of a Confederate State: Three Governors and Alabama’s Wartime Home Front, 1861-1865 (1986)

68. Raimondo Luraghi, The Southern Navy: The Confederate Navy and the American Civil War (1995)

69. Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (2014)

70. George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolt Against Politics (1994)

71. George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989)

72. Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865 (1998)

73. Emory M. Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1971)

74. Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (1979)

75. Michael J. O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, 2 vols (2004)

76. Michael T. Bernath, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South (2010)

77. Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War (1988)

78. Steven E. Woodworth, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (1990)

79. Anne Sarah Rubin, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 (2007)

80. Eugene Genovese & Elizabeth Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview (2005)

81. John Majewski, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (2009)

 

Strategy and Tactics:

82. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace (2009)

83. Earl J. Hess, The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth (2010)

84. Thomas L. Connelly & Archer Jones, The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy (1998)

85. Steven H. Newton, Joseph E. Johnston and the Defence of Richmond (2009)

86. Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1990)

87. Stephen R. Taaffe, Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War (2009)

88. Edwin C. Fishel, The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War (1996)

89. Ethan S. Rafuse, McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union (2005)

90. Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Civil War (1989)

91. Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (1995)

92. Edward Hagerman, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare (1988)

93. Joseph L. Harsh, Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 (1998)

94. Richard M. McMurry, Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History (1989)

95. Grady McWhiney & Perry D. Jamieson, Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage (1984)

96. Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1993)

97. George E. Turner, Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War (1992)

98. T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals (1952)

99. Daniel E. Sutherland, ed., Guerillas, Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Home Front (1999)

100. Mark E. Neely, “Was the Civil War a Total War?” Civil War History 37 (1991) 

101. Earl J. Hess, Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness (2015)

 

The Experience of War:

102. Russel H. Beatie, Army of the Potomac: Birth of Command, November 1860-September 1861 (2002) 

103. Larry J. Daniel, Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865 (2004)

104. Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army (1956, 1966)

105. Joseph Allen Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialisation of American Civil War Soldiers (1998)

106. Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (1990)

107. Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (1997)

108. James G. Hollandsworth, The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War (1995)

109. Gerald Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (1987)

110. Brian Matthew Jordan, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War (2015)

111. James McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997)

112. Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993)

113. Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers: The Expectations and their Experiences (1988)

114. Brent Nosworthy, The Bloody Crucible of War: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War (2003)

115. J. Tracy Power, Lee’s Miserables Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (1998) 

116. Steven J. Ramold, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African-Americans in the Union Navy (2002)

117. James I. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray (1988)

118. Kent Masterson Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (2005)

119. Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (1952)

120. Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb (1943)

121. Noah Andre Trudeau, Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (1999)

122. Ira M. Rutkow, Bleeding Blue and Gray: The Untold Story of Civil War Medicine (2005)

123. Steven E. Woodworth, While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (2001)

124. Stephen R. Taafe, Commanding the Army of the Potomac (2006)

125. Elizabeth Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (2014)

 

The Home Front:

126. Richard Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: the Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1990)

127. Jonathan W. White, Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (2011)

128. David B. Chesebrough, God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865 (1991) 

129. James Conroy, Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln And The Hampton Roads Peace Conference Of 1865 (2014)

130. Paul A. Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds., An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front (2002)

131. Kenneth J. Winkle, Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC (2013)

132. Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (2001)

133. J. Matthew Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War: the Home Front (1994)

134. Paul Wallace Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War (1965)

135. James W. Geary, We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War (1991)

136. Earl J. Hess, Liberty, Virtue and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union (1989) 

137. Harold M. Hyman, A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution (1973)

138. Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960)

139. Christian G. Samito, Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader (2009)

140. Edward Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003)

141. Joan Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War (2006)

142. Jan Martin Lemnitzer, Power, Law and the End of Privateering (2012)

143. Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868 (1988)

144. Philip Paludan, “A People’s Contest”: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1988)

145. Martin P. Johnson, Writing the Gettysburg Address (2013)

146. Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policy during the Civil War (1997)

147. Anne C. Rose, Victorian America and the Civil War (1992)

148. Maris A. Vinovskis, Towards a Social History of the American Civil War (1990)

149. John Fabian Witt, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (2013)

150. William A. Blair, With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (2015)

 

Emancipation and the Black Experience:

151. Ira Berlin et al, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992)

152. David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989)

153. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (2014)

154. LaWanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (1981)

155. Don E. Fehrenbacher & Ward M. McAfee, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2002)

156. James L. Huston, The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism (2015)

157. Louis Gerteis, From Contraband to Freedmen: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 1861-1865 (1973)

158. James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (2014)

159. Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union (2014)

160. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006)

161. Leon F. Litwack, Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)

162. Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (2015)

163. James M. McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (1965, 1991)

164. Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Master and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986)

165. Glenn Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (2012)

166. Barbara Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (2011)

167. Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (1964) 

168. V. Jacques Voegli, Free But Not Equal: The Midwest and the Negro during the Civil War (1967)

169. James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (1990)

170. Burrus Carnahan, Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (2007)

171. Donald R. Shaffer, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans (2004)

172. Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001)

173. John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic - Volume 2: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1850-1861 (2007)

 

Diplomacy:

174. Brian Jenkins, Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War (2014)

175. Lynn M. Case and Warren F. Spencer, The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (1970)

176. Michael Knox Beran, Forge of Empires, 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made (2007)

177. Don H. Doyle, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (2014)

178. Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union (2 vols, 1974-1980)

179. Howard M. Jones, Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992)

180. Howard M. Jones, Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War (1999)¿

181. Kevin Peraino, Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power (2013)

[HanoiVillan]

To be fair, if the alternative is reading all that, I'm pretty sure I'd have chosen ignorance as well. 

[snowychap]

2 hours ago, Straggler said:

Howard Jones, Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War

Should have called it a day after Dream into Action.

[StefanAVFC]

Dangerous man. The GOP control the presidency, the senate, the house and have a majority on the SCOTUS. Yet Mango Mussolini wants to shut down the government.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331512-trump-us-needs-a-good-shutdown

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President Trump on Tuesday called for a "good shutdown" in September to fix the "mess” in government.

He also expressed frustration that legislation needs 60 votes in the Senate because of the filibuster, saying it would be necessary to elect more Republicans or "change the rules."

"The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September to fix mess!" he wrote in a series of tweets.

Congress is poised this week to approve a deal to fund the government through September, the first major bipartisan legislation of Trump's presidency. 

The measure will spare the president a damaging government shutdown, but it left out many of his biggest policy requests. 

 

It does not include funding for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border or include language stripping federal money from so-called sanctuary cities, both of which the White House demanded at the outset of negotiations. 

 

The White House also backed off a threat to withhold ObamaCare subsidy payments to insurance companies. 

 

Trump did secure increased military spending in the 2017 budget deal. 

 

The comments are likely to irk top Republican lawmakers, who have been frustrated by Trump’s repeated attempts to intervene in the legislative process. 

 

The businessman-turned-president, in turn, has vented frustration with the slow pace of work on Capitol Hill. 

 

“I’m disappointed that it doesn’t go quicker,” Trump told Fox News last week when asked about the Republican effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare. 

 

[StefanAVFC]

5 days apart 

 

Edited May 2, 2017 by StefanAVFC

[maqroll]

6 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

Mango Mussolini

[StefanAVFC]

Sickening that this is the attitude is the most developed, powerful country in the world.

I feel this is the future that the Tories want in the UK.