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Note to self:

Preston Brooks, the Representative who beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane near death in 1854, was from Edgefield;  Martin Gary, founder of the KKK, was from Edgefield; Benjamin “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman was from Edgefield; Strom Thurmond was from Edgefield.  (map)

From Paul Krugman, today:

Conservatives seem, in particular, to believe that freedom’s just another word for not enough to eat.

From the Atlantic:

From Wapo, 9/19:

In 2010 through 2012, the Navy outsourced out its ID processes to an Oregon-based company called Eid Passport

Well, gosh!  Was there not the slightest hint in the fact that the outsource was named for a Muslim holiday, the end of Ramadan?