Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today marks perhaps the most important battle in our nation’s history, George Washington’s decisive win over the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Continental Army’s stunning victory this day at the Battle of Trenton. With that battle, George
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The first night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, begins tonight. Happy Hanukkah. This from Ms. Bookworm in 2012: As every Jew will tell you, in the traditional Jewish calendar Hanukkah is not big deal. It reached its present status because it happens to fall at the same time as
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2,236 years ago, at the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal of Carthage annihilated a much larger Roman army with tactics still studied to this day. On 2 August 216 B.C., during the Second Punic War, an army of 50,000 Carthaginians, under the command of Hannibal, met a Roman army of some
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Cancel culture gives us another moment of historical irony as it comes for Sir Francis Drake in Marin County, California. The ostensible justification for the riots throughout our land, at least at the start of all of the insanity, was to fight racism by tearing down statues of Confederates who
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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. 2020 Introduction: It is time for the annual republication of the Declaration of
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Reprinted from 2011 The photo at the top of the post was taken on about Feb. 5, 1951 showing some of the soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Regiment taking a break on a hill in Korea. Eight days after this picture was taken, they would face the fight of their
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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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Notable Events: Pope Sergius III, Mongolian Horde, Napoleonic Wars, Bear River Massacre, Karl Benz’s Motorwagen, Charles Curtis 1st Native American Senator and VP, Battle of Khafji, Axis of evil Born: Jeffery Amherst, Thomas Paine, William McKinley, W. C. Fields Died: King George III, Douglas Haig, H. L. Mencken Notable Events on
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Holiday & Observances: Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas Major Events: Diet of Worms; Paris Surrenders & the German Empire Begins, Notable Events: Harrying of the North; Walk to Canossa, Edward VI, Pakistan, Elvis, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Born: Henry VII, Ernest William Christmas, Jackson Pollock Died: Charlemagne, Henry VIII Holidays
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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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Holiday & Observances: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul; Burns Night; Dydd Santes Dwynwen Major Events: Shay’s Rebellion; Battle of the Bulge Notable Events: Battle of the Zab; Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn; Battle of Mikatagahara; Mendelssohn, Strauss, Alexander Graham Bell, 101 Dalmatians, Mother Teresa, Norwegian Rocket Incident; Execution
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Holiday & Observances: Feast of St. Francis de Sales Major Events: Praetorian Guard Assassinates Caligula, Sunni-Shia Divide, California Gold Rush Notable Events: Fatimid Caliphate, Conciliar Movement, Corvinus crowned King, Cavalier Parliament, Boy Scouts, Income Tax, Goldsboro B-52 Crash, Ted Bundy Born: Hadrian, Frederick the Great, Charles James Fox, Neil Diamond,
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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
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Holiday & Observances: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Major Events: Montfort’s Parliament & Representative Democracy Notable Events: Pope St. Fabian, Charles I tried for treason, tyranny, Hong Kong Island, motion pictures, Wannsee Conference, Harry Truman’s foreign aid, Angus Deaton, Sudan, Sharia Law, Born: Richard Henry Lee, Clarice Cliff Died: David
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