Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today: Slavery, Dunmore’s Proclamation, Small Pox & The Ethiopian Regiment in the Revolutionary War; England’s Glorious Revolution; Lutefisk; John Milton; Christmas Music . . . AND MORE . . .
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A look at some of the history and holidays on December 5 Holidays & Observances on December 5 Feast of St. Crispina, an African noble woman and mother who adopted Christianity and was executed in 304 A.D. for refusing to make offerings to the Roman gods during the Diocletian Persecutions.
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A look at some of the history and holidays on November 29 Holidays & Observances on November 29 Feast of Father Cuthbert Mayne – one of the Forty Martys of England and Wales, he was the first seminary trained priest to be executed for practicing his faith in Elizabethan England.
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,
Continue readingA look at some of the history, holidays & observances on November 16 Holidays and Observances on November 16 Celebration of an icon of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, a near 400 year old artwork, Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, canonically crowned by the Church in 1927 as
Continue readingAn eclectic survey of some of the history that occurred on this day Holidays On 11 November Veterans Day, originally a celebration of the Armistice ending WWI, it was changed in 1954 to a celebration honoring all U.S. military veterans. Happy Veterans Day. Feast of Martin of Tours, a 4th
Continue readingAn eclectic survey of this day in history Holidays On 10 November Birthday of the United States Marine Corps, established in 1775 at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Christian Feast of the Lübeck martyrs, three Catholic and one Lutheran Priest executed on this date in 1943 for their
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We are in the 7th decade of a slo-mo socialist revolution in America, but there are signs it will be followed by a successful Second American Revolution. One of my favorite books is Daddy-Long-Legs, an epistolary novel that Jean Webster wrote in 1912. The letter writer is Judy Abbott, a
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American conservatives, Trump included, by definition cannot be Right Wing, because their primary goal is to lessen government control over the individual. John Lott wrote an article challenging the media’s contention that the New Zealand mosque shooter is “right wing” and, naturally, tying that right-winged-ness to President Trump and his
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In the hard past Americans thought themselves blessed; in the present, Stupid Leftists claim victimhood and attack the modernity that makes life safe and easy. I love visiting old graveyards. This is not because I’m a morbid, ghoulish type. It is, instead, because graveyards tell stories about times past and
Continue readingFrances Marion, the father of our modern special ops units, was both one of the finest military commanders our nation has ever produced and a good man. The slander that he was a “savage” killer and rapist is the worst of calumny. Three things no one should ever trust: a
Continue readingSocialism should be in the dust-bin of history. Instead, it is embraced by Democrats, many of whom have no understanding of it’s reality. The history of the world, since 1792, has been a competition to see which will win out — the Enlightenment ideals of the American Revolution, or the
Continue readingTime to acknowledge those several ladies who made critical contributions to the American Revolution from a supine position. There were numerous women who notably contributed to the American Revolution, and indeed, it fair to say as an equity feminist, historian, and romantic that the American Revolution and the framing of the
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Wolf Howling is working on a novel about the American Revolution and would like to get some feedback — specifically, your feedback. Check it out. I decided, in my hubris, some time ago to try my hand at writing a series of books – works of historical fiction – tracing
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A Fordham professor folds, spindles, and mutilates colonial-era history to claim that the Founding Fathers supported stringent gun control laws. One of my Facebook friends was delighted to come across an article from an American History professor at Fordham trumpeting that the Founding Fathers loved gun control, and interpreted the Second Amendment
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