“New England” on The Daily Caller

Some historians have perpetuated myths about the men and guns of the American Revolution, taking aim at American marksmanship. But recent scholarship shows that the citizen soldiers who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill were far better shots than the “professional” British soldiers who faced them. Just how good were they? Read on. (more)

Lobster populations in a large swath of the Atlantic Ocean have declined so much that biologists are recommending a five-year ban on catching lobsters south of Cape Cod down to Virginia to allow the stock to bounce back. (more)

MEDFORD — It was a crisp Saturday last fall. Tufts University’s football team had just beaten Bowdoin College in a nail-biter. Proud from the homecoming victory, Tufts president Lawrence Bacow walked toward his house with the president of Bowdoin, showing off the hilltop campus along the way. (more)

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A federal judge has ruled two Connecticut public high schools can’t hold their graduations inside a church because that would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. (more)

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry said today the Obama administration may render its verdict on a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod this week, and he will support it if Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar gives his approval. (more)

From California produce to New England seafood, the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano is taking its toll on U.S. businesses. Air traffic to and from Europe has been disrupted for days, and that is keeping goods grounded. (more)

After counting down the 100 friendliest counties for conservatives, The Daily Caller is doing the same for liberals. If you still have an Obama bumper sticker on your Prius, this is where you’ll feel most at home. On Monday, we listed numbers 100-81; below is the second installment, numbers 80-61. (more)

After counting down the list of the top 100 counties for a conservative to live in, it’s time to do the same for liberals.  If you still have your Obama bumper sticker on your Prius, here are the counties you should consider moving to. (more)

A lot has been made recently, on both the right and the left, regarding the changes made last week by the Texas Board of Education in that state’s social studies curriculum and textbooks. A leader of the winning conservative faction on the board maintained that they were only adding needed balance to an already ideologically-charged curriculum, arguing that “academia is skewed too far to the left.” A leader of the losing liberal faction countered that “the social conservatives have perverted accurate history to fulfill their own agenda.” In particular, moderates and liberals on the board decried a decision by the conservatives to reduce the prominence of Thomas Jefferson in certain aspects of the history curriculum, given Jefferson’s authorship of the phrase “separation of church and state.” (more)

The National Football League is entering a new phase of the 2010 season, the player recruitment campaign will start on March 5 and there are new rules for this endeavor because the owners have decided to blow up the old collective bargaining agreement, a document that kept both owners and players relatively happy. (more)

Washington (AP) – The number of new claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly in the United States last week as heavy snows led to higher layoffs. (more)

It’s not very often that Utah is a topic of conversation in Washington, D.C. Only when a high-profile polygamist is on the run or when the Jazz are in the playoffs do my friends ask about my home state. (more)

Men’s hats went to eclipse in 1960. Until then, no gentleman would leave the house in the summer or winter without his fedora, coconut straw or homburg. Any photo of a sporting event from the 1920s to the late ’50s — from baseball to horse racing — show men in the stands with proper headgear. Lots of neckties too. Men knew how to dress in public. (more)

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sat in his office recently and reflected on his team’s accomplishments to begin the millennium. (more)

In an interview on a local public affairs program, Lieberman said that he will “probably” run again as an independent but said that he could see himself as a centrist Republican. (more)

The market in high-mileage GMC pickup trucks spiked on Wednesday as Republican candidates strained to stuff themselves into the Scott Brown template for victory in hostile terrain. The Massachusetts Republican spent the past two weeks as the second-most surprised person in the Bay State as he detected and seized a whirlwind of discontent. (more)

The nation’s politicians and political operatives are noodling what Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday means for the political climate in their states. My guess is that the reality is there are too many variables for most states to draw a clean comparison analogy. But the Bay State’s neighbor to the north, New Hampshire, may present the most compelling analogy. And that’s bad news for the Democrats. (more)

“Never allow a crisis go to waste.” So said Rahm Emanuel in November 2008, describing how President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats intended to use the country’s economic crisis as a pretext for passing radical policies that Americans might otherwise reject. “What I mean by that,” Emanuel explained, “is that it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” (more)

When Chris Shays of Connecticut, the last New England Republican in the House, lost his seat in 2008 pundits said it marked the end of Republicanism in the Northeast. (more)

At the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the holiday and a bitter winter storm have kept the crowds away from a phone bank for Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. As of 10:20 this morning, not a single volunteer had yet arrived for the 10am phone bank. (more)