Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.