Lt Col. Robert Bateman challenges the NRA.

It's been some time now since I added Charles Pierce's 'The Politics Blog' over at Esquire to my daily blogroll. His righteous indignation coupled with his madcap prose stylings are sui generis and often hilarious. But, although Pierce is the proprietor and primary contributor to the blog, other writers are sometimes featured. Among them is a semi-regular whom I've come to increasingly appreciate named Lt. Col. Robert Bateman.

Bateman is active-duty Army, 'an infantryman and a Military Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)' and currently stationed in England. His primary recurring feature at 'The Politics Blog' is the Civil War Reenactment an as-it-happened 150 years ago today recounting of the military events of the Civil War. But he's not one of those sentimentalists who appreciate the beauty and valor of the South's struggle. He unapologetically refers to it as The War of Southern Rebellion and considers Robert E. Lee a traitor. The last installment in the series to date had Grant stalemated just a few miles from Richmond.
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But he also writes on other topics. He has been strong in his denunciation of sexual assault and rape in the military, as in this recent post. And he has been increasingly critical of our country's gun culture.
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