Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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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I try not to use race or sexuality as a filter for viewing people, but I have inordinate respect for blacks and LGBT people who come out as conservatives. My confession today has to start with the fact that I’m a coward. I was raised by parents who were deeply
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Faced with a field of highly defective Democrat candidates, the New York Times hides behind identity politics to endorse two seriously flawed women. Yesterday, the New York Times came in for a good deal of both criticism and laughter when it endorsed not one but two candidates: Elizabeth Warren and
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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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Holidays: Toast to Edgar Allan Poe Major Events: John Wilkes, ACLU, Iranian Hostage Crisis Notable Events: Faust, Il Trovatore, Thomas Edison, League of Nations, You Nazty Spy!, I Love Lucy, Klaus Barbie, Born: James Watt, Robert E. Lee, Lysander Spooner, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Ish Kabibble, Bernard Dunstan, Janis
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Holidays & Observances: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day, Amy Carmichael Major Events: War of the Roses, 1st Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto Notable Events: Pope Pius IV, Henry Morgan takes Panama, Frederick I crowned King of Prussia, James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, Britain’s Penal transportation, Boston Strangler, Marion
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This is a knock-your-socks-off campaign video from Dalia al-Aqidi, an Iraqi Muslim woman who is fighting to win Ilhan Omar’s House seat. Because my parents lived in the Middle East, we had lots of Arab friends, both Muslim and Christian, when I was a child. Whatever their views were about
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My blogging might be (probably already is) a bit erratic over the coming couple of weeks, but it’s all for a very happy reason (but tiring) reason. I decided that I’d better apologize in advance for the fact that, over the next two weeks, the pace of my blogging will
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When I looked at my pictures, I realized the unifying theme is that Dems are going crazy on everything: Iran, Elections, Impeachment, and Social Issues. FacebookTweet
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Holidays & Observances: Feast of Anthony the Great Major Events: The Battle of Cowpens Notable Events: Menorca, St. Marcellus’ flood, Avignon Popes, Huguenots, Mahdist War, Monte Cassino, Raoul Wallenberg, Palomares Incident, Born: Antonio del Pollaiolo, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë, Al Capone, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Muhammad Ali, Died: Theodosius
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General Counsel for the GAO issued a press release today: “Today, GAO issued a legal decision concluding that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law when it withheld approximately $214 million appropriated to DOD for security assistance to Ukraine. The President has narrow, limited authority to withhold appropriations
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The Roman Empire, Ivan the Terrible, Council of Nablus, Medici Bank, Don Quixote, Act of Union, Midnight Battle, Civil Service, Samoa, Iran Major Events on January 16 27 B.C. – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the end of the Roman Republic
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Can former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens recover his reputation from a Soros-backed political attack that was a warm-up for going after Trump? I remember when Eric Greitens first appeared on the Missouri political scene. I liked him. He was competent, as shown by his being a Navy SEAL; he was
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Elizabeth I crowned Queen, Robert Morris asks Congress to adopt coinage and a national mint, British Museum, War of 1812, Civil War, Donkeys & the Democrat Party, Coca-Cola, Spartacist Uprising, Spanish Civil War, Pope John Paul II & Lech Walesa Major Events on January 15 1559 – Elizabeth I is
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