A great comment left in an article on 538.com the other day. I copy it here so it won’t get lost, as I can’t locate it 48 hours later: Chris Raimondi Calling anything Trump puts out as a plan and then attempting to analyze it is doing a disservice to numbers without pointing out virtually … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, June 1873 An advertisement from the Sacramento Daily Union, June 1873, which shows the never changing love of personal modes of transportation in America, not much different now than 143 years ago.
EXTENDING THE WORK. [Part 2.] Sacramento Daily Union, 5 June 1873 . “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” The movement inaugurated in Sacramento county by the Taxpayers’ party, has already extended to Yuba, as will be seen by reading the appended call to ” the independent voters” of that county. The only difference is … [Read more…]
SACRAMENTO TO HER SISTER COUNTIES. [Part 1.] Sacramento Daily Union, 5 June 1873 . The address of the Independent Taxpayers’ Committee, after setting forth with remarkable brevity the causes which have made the new local political party necessary and the issue between the people of this county and the railway monopoly, points to the “election … [Read more…]
From: TLS – Luttwak – Hidden Assets This is the context that makes The Panama Papers so very important. With this totally new evidence in hand, we now know that globalization has caused rising inequality in quite another way than the transfer of higher-paying manufacturing jobs and all other such phenomena – very unfortunate in … [Read more…]
Updates to this post as new proclamations are discovered: Daily Alta California, Volume 21, Number 6928, 8 March 1869 AMUSEMENTS, ETC Mechanics’ Pavilion.— The attendance still continues to be large at the Velocipedestrian School. A few days ago Emperor Norton was present, and he mounted one of the bicycles to find how it went. Helios, … [Read more…]
Amazing parallels to how the contemporary press, in 2016, created Donald Trump’s candidacy for the GOP Presidential nomination and how it played out for Daniel Pratt, Junior, in 1869, at least as depicted in this story. Pratt’s life, as shown in his Wikipedia page, was a bit less charmed: A RIVAL TO EMPEROR NORTON. From … [Read more…]
I was reading an article in the L.A. Times on a “small” materials handling accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Calsbad New Mexico today: Nuclear Accident in New Mexico and wanted to look at the site’s web page and read the information the DOE put out. So, off to Google I go and … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 12 January, 1865 Gambling for a Grave.— The best thing told of late illustrative of the “ruling passion” being strong in life or death, is that gotten up on the detail of men sent out to dig the graves for the soldiers killed in the Indian fight on Sand Creek. ” The … [Read more…]
TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA On my approach to this place with the forces under my command, Jose Castro the Commandant General of California, buried his artillery and abandoned his fortified camp “of the Mesa,” and fled, it is believed, toward Mexico. With the sailors, the marines and the California Battalion of mounted Riflemen, we … [Read more…]