Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Declaration of Independence was published by the Second Continental Congress on this day in 1776. Their audiences were the American colonists, to justify our call to arms, and Britain’s enemies, to assure them of our intent. Thomas Jefferson’s preamble, with his famous proclamation that all people are equal before
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New Year’s Day, 8th Day of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mutiny of the Penn. Line, Emancipation Proclamation, Ban On The International Slave Trade, and More. . . . Holidays and Observances on January 1 Welcome to the 1st day of the Year 2020, the 8th Day of Christmas, and soon,
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Today: Richard the Lionheart, South Carolina secedes, the Louisiana Purchase, Vespasian, Hitler, Sacagawea, Christmas Music, And More . . . Holidays and Observances on December 20 Feast of Santo Domingo of Silos, an 11th century Spanish shepherd who became a monk and a priest. After being driven out of Navarre,
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Today: The Defeat of ISIS, The Dutch beat the English at Dungeness, 1st Notice of the Holocaust, Royals behaving badly, Christmas Music, . . . AND MORE
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A look at some of the history and holidays on December 7 Holidays & Observances on December 7 Pearl Harbor Day — The U.S. and Japan were in ongoing peace negotiations when, at 7:48 AM Hawaii time on this day in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack
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Reparations that economically penalize modern Americans for ancient acts to benefit other modern Americans are not justified by any fair reading of history. 2020 Democrat presidential candidates immersed in race-obsessed identity politics (as a substitute for the class-based politics of pure Marxism) are pushing the for the Holy Grail of
Continue readingThe Declaration of Independence was written for the colonists, to justify our call to arms, and to Britain’s enemies, to assure them of our intent. Below is the Declaration of Independence annotated and its historical context. Following that are some additional comments on the Declaration and its importance. Update: Read
Continue readingJudge Robert Yates, aka Brutus, warned of the problems of a Supreme Court acting without checks and balances in 1787, in the Anti-Federalist Papers. Of all the issues facing us today, the one of overriding importance is who will replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. It is a lit
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America’s current ideological civil war replays two core ideas from the late 18th century: America’s Enlightenment liberty vs. France’s socialist tyranny. I am sure most readers of this blog are aware of the incident that occurred several weeks ago at Claremont MacKenna college, when progressive students — aided and abetted
Continue readingDanielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is claiming that, for 238 years, everyone has been misreading the Declaration of Independence. According to her, a floating period, missing from some drafts but not from others, establishes that the Founding Fathers believed that it was
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