Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Holiday & Observances: Martyrdom of King Charles I of England Major Events: Execution of Charles I, Hitler appointed Chancellor, Ghandi assassinated, Tet Offensive Notable Events: Cromwell’s head on a spike, Eighty Years War, 47 Ronin, Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson, Extermination of the Kulaks, MLK Jr. Bombing Incident Born: Franklin
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Observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Major Events: Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery, Siege of Leningrad Notable Events: Trajan becomes Emperor, Pope Clement VI & indulgences, Univ. of Ga, Indian Territory, Boshin War, Thomas Edison, USAF attacks Germany, Nuclear Testing, Apollo 1, Outer Space Treaty, Paris Peace Accords,
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Major Events: Battle of Rorke’s Drift, Supreme Court discovers a constitutional right to abortion Notable Events: Battle of Basing, Swiss Guards, CIA, Apple’s Superbowl commercial, Beit Lid Massacre, Evo Morales, Born: Ibn Taymiyyah, Ivan the Great, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Donne, William Kidd, Lord Byron, D.W. Griffith, Irving Kristol,
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Major Events: French Revolution & Execution of Louis XVI Notable Events: USS Nautilus, Miss Sam, Khe Sanh, Thule Air Base Nuclear Incident, New Gingrich Ethics Ciolations, Pussy Hat March Born: Antonio Molinari, Adriaen van der Werff, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Peter De Wint, Moritz von Schwind, Stonewall Jackson, Felix Hoffmann, Jack Nicklaus
Continue readingA look at some of the history and holidays on November 21 Holidays & Observances On November 21 Feast of Pope Saint Gelasius I, a late 5th century Pontiff and the last of North African origin. As the Catholic Encyclopedia writes of him: Though pope but for four years and a half,
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Ken Burns’ manages to be mostly honest in a stunning look at the Tet Offensive, but what he leaves out is as important as what he includes. Here in the Bookworm home, we’re still working our way through Ken Burns’ Vietnam War documentary. Last night, we got to the part
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With Progressives fighting for cultural ascendance, we are entering an ideological Twilight Zone that’s bad for America, but really great for a blogger. Hold onto your hats, my friends, because this is going to be a huge collection of all things interesting, mostly relating to the madness emanating from today’s
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Ken Burns’ documentary about the Vietnam War is beautifully crafted and visually stunning, but very subtly sides with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. I watched the first episode of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, a 16 hour documentary on PBS. It is, as is true for all of Burns’
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We spent two days in Hue, Vietnam. Looking at this peaceful city, it’s hard to believe that it was the site if the Tet Offensive — a place where our troops won the battle and our government lost the war. Hue has an ancient Citadel, which was both a military
Continue readingI watched about 30 minutes of the debate. I missed the beginning because I was taking care of business, and I tuned out after 30 minutes because my feed broke down. What little I did watch still left me with a few impressions about the field. Before I begin, let
Continue readingThe Taliban has hit Marin County (indirectly). Marin County is headquarters for Roots of Peace, an admirable charity that seeks to advance agricultural development in poverty-stricken areas. It has an outpost in Afghanistan, where it seeks to enable the Afghani people to feed themselves. The Taliban can’t have that kind
Continue readingI could have done this as myriad small posts, but I was in the mood for something big. I’ll separate the different ideas and issues with asterisks (after all, Obama’s promise with his unspoken asterisk has made asterisks the hot new thing in writing). My friend (I like say that
Continue readingThe photo above must be one of the most iconic images from the hippie, anti-war period. A youthful anti-Vietnam War protester, faced with a ring of National Guard troops pointing their rifles at him, carefully places a flower in each muzzle. He thinks, no doubt, that the flowers have magically
Continue readingI’m not the most observant person in the world. It was probably in around 1976 when I suddenly realized that the CBS nightly news, which my parents watched religiously, was no longer giving daily updates about the number of dead and wounded in Vietnam. That information had provided a backdrop
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