Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
An edited version of this post appears at American Thinker. Progressives embrace victimhood to give themselves moral superiority. But victimhood often requires grossly distorted narratives in place of historical facts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in The Nation magazine, where two American Indian “activists” recently “debated” Should America Keep
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Get Frenchmen out of France, and they make remarkable citizens. One only needs to look to the Huguenots of South Carolina, the Acadians of Louisiana, or to Ms. BWR herself. But, as a student of history, I find no nation that has been more destructive of Western Civilization than France,
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Celebration of the Epiphany Today, the 6th of January, is the traditional day for the celebration of the Epiphany. In many places, such as the Vatican itself, the Epiphany is still celebrated today. In the U.S. since 1970, the Epiphany is celebrated on the first Sunday after 1 January. That
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Wishing You and Yours a Happy End to the Christmas Season on 12th Night Today, 5 January, is the 12th and final day of the 12 Days of Christmas. Historically, tonight is also the Eve of the Epiphany. Note that in the U.S., since 1970, the celebration of the Epiphany
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1777 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Princeton. After the 2nd battle of Trenton, Washington stealthily withdrew his army from their defensive positions, slipped past Lord Cornwallis’s main army in the night, and set out along back roads to Princeton. Once there, he intended to engage the British rear
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On the 10th Day of Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore – Psalm 113:2 The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, also
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On this day in 1777, the 2nd Battle of Trenton (Battle of the Assunpink Creek) In the aftermath of the Continental’s existentially important victory Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, Washington and his officers surmised that the British would immediately try a strong counterattack to erase the American victory.
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On the 9th Day of Christmas, a Feast in honor of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen Today is celebrated the Feasts of two Saints, Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen. Both lived in the 4th century in what is today Turkey. Both are “Doctors of the Church,” people
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New Year’s Day 2023 Anno Domini & on this, the 8th Day of Christmas, the Solemnity of Mary, and in days gone by, the Feast of the Circumcision and the Feast of Fools Welcome to the 1st day of the Year 2023 and the 8th Day of Christmas. In modern
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A Merry 1st Day of Christmas and a Happy Last Day of Hannukah to you and your families from Bookie and Wolfie, this being the Christian World’s 1,696th celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, & the Jewish World’s 2,187th celebration of Hannukah. They go well together. Luke 2:11-12: For
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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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If you have not seen it, The Crossing, is a very historically accurate rendition of the attack that literally saved the American Revolution. In January 1776, the Colonial Army under George Washington’s command had successfully surrounded a small British occupation force in Boston. But the fortunes of war soon changed.
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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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In the 1990s, a few authors recognized leftist disconnects or discerned dangerous trends that, seemingly inevitably, led us to the year 2021. There are several books I read in the 1990s that helped drive me across the Rubicon from mindless Democrat to more thoughtful (I hope) conservative. All of them
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A historian bows to the politically correct mob to bastardize history. Nic Butler is Charleston County (South Carolina) Public Library’s (CCPL’s) resident historian. He is a middle-aged white male who is quite competent at his job, and reading his weekly CCPL blog, the Charleston Time Machine, is usually enjoyable and
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