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1. On July 4, 1776, the United States declared itself an independent nation. This is almost true, but the timing is a tad off. According to the historical record, we should be celebrating Independence Day on July 2, the day Congress finally approved the motion made by Richard Henry Lee on June 7: “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and... Читать дальше...

Commentators in the print and video media often complain about President Donald Trump’s aggressive actions regarding immigration, tariffs, health care, climate change, guns, the Iran nuclear agreement, and other controversial topics, but they recognize that he won the election. Reluctantly, they acknowledge that Trump has a mandate to take strong positions on the issues. But they are wrong. Donald Trump does not possess impressive authority to move the nation dramatically in new directions. Pundits... Читать дальше...

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Jefferson’s energy in the cause of liberty, his dedication to the cause of human rights, and his facility with language through his pen placed him in, often at the head of, over 30 committees in the Continental Congress. Yet his most significant work was as a member of the five-man committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence. On June 9, 1776, Congress appointed Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to draft the document. Читать дальше...

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A week ago Sunday, June 24, 2018, First Baptist Church of Dallas held its annual “Freedom Sunday.” The church website described the special service this way: “Celebrate our freedom as Americans and our freedom in Christ with patriotic worship and a special message from Dr. Robert Jeffress, “America is a Christian Nation.” 

His name? Alcibiades. Like Trump, this scion of wealth loved to win and manipulate the masses.

It is Christmas Eve, 1956, and three fabled American songwriters, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen, meet in Berlin’s New York City apartment. It is snowing heavily outside as carolers roam from block to block. The three composers are angry because Elvis Presley and rock and roll music is pushing them off the music charts. “Is this the end?” one asks.

Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against the memory of one of its national leaders in blatant defiance of the historical facts, as French historians have against Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III. And they continue to do so to this day. The complete distortion and denial of Napoleon III’s true achievements began with his arch political opponent, Adolphe Thiers, in his undisguised strongly biased history of this period. Thiers reminds readers... Читать дальше...

Sunday morning, July 14th, 1918.

It’s Bastille Day—and, somewhere in France, a fledging, twenty-year old American aviator named Quentin Roosevelt is scampering into his single-seat French-made, wooden-and-canvas Nieuport-28 aeroplane for … nothing less than a rendezvous with death.

Quentin Roosevelt was, of course, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest child. TR had argued mightily for American military preparedness in the lead-up to war in April 1917. Following our declaration of war, he... Читать дальше...

Hagia Sophia - By Arild Vågen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

The sun was setting on the Roman Empire. After 2,000 years, the empire of Augustus, Constantine, and Justinian, whose annals were replete with conquests, wealth, and glory, was on its knees. John VI Kantakouzenos’ (r. 1347-1354) coronation in Constantinople in 1347 took place not in the grand Hagia Sophia, which lay in disrepair, but at the smaller Church of the Virgin at Blachernae. He was not crowned with the imperial jewels, which had been pawned off to Venice... Читать дальше...

Vel Phillips at March on Milwaukee - By Voces de la Frontera from Milwaukee, USA, 2007, CC BY 2.0

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, reacting to her victory

Recently, when 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an obscure, upfront democratic socialist from the Bronx, easily defeated one of the most powerful U.S. Congressmen in the Democratic primary, the story became an overnight sensation. How, the pundits wondered, could this upset have occurred?

Actually, it shouldn’t have been a total surprise for, in recent years, democratic socialism has been making a remarkable comeback in American life. Читать дальше...

According to a legion of biographers and social commentators, the Rules of Civility, which George Washington transcribed as a schoolboy, contain the essence of the Father of Our Country, the code of conduct that allowed him to scale the slippery pole of success to its peak and remain there for two centuries.

Most historians are familiar with a dilemma that journalists often complain of. Access versus reporting. You cozy up to the subject, try to get close, hope the contact yields some new insider information. If the journalist gets that far, stage 2 follows—do you use the information (which might compromise the source), and if so do you utilize the material in ways that protect the source. This has been a headache in press circles at least since I was in high school and assistant editor of my school newspaper. Читать дальше...

His target: People who complain that rich snooty guys in suits are to blame for the resurgence of populism.

“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”— Abraham Lincoln (December 1, 1862) 

According to Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell, “We can’t have a nation with open borders!” This is quite ironic since the United States of America, more than any other nation, was created on the foundation stone of open borders. If Native Americans could have enforced closed borders in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, there would be no United States of America. No visa was required to enter the North American continent, and no restrictions were placed on immigration until Chinese were barred by the immigration act of 1882. Читать дальше...

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, conservative pundits have begun to urge President Trump to nominate an originalist to the Supreme Court. Ben Shapiro, the editor in chief at the Daily Wire, has written that the president should only consider a constitutional originalist who will rid the country of such horrible judicial decisions as Roe V. Wade, and the Robert’s Court’s decisions on the affordable care act and same-sex marriage. “None of these decisions were remotely justifiable... Читать дальше...

The journalist Anne Applebaum is a leading popular historian of the former European Communist countries. She has published a substantial study of the Soviet Gulag camp system that won a Pulitzer Prize, and a study of the Communist takeovers of Eastern Europe.1   In Red Famine Applebaum focuses on the great Soviet famine of the early 1930s, which she portrays as imposed artificially by the Stalin regime on Ukraine, and the result of a long history of alleged Russian and Soviet hostility toward Ukraine. Читать дальше...

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How many people have been appointed to the Supreme Court?

125 people have been appointed to the Court. According to the US Senate website seven declined to serve.

Why was President Obama denied a chance to make a third appointment to the Court?

President Barack Obama is a Democrat.  The US Senate was controlled by the Republicans when Antonin Scalia died and a seat opened up on the Court. Читать дальше...