Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A story of monkey revenge in India should remind us once again how thin our veneer of civilization is and how close we are to losing it. A month ago, in India, a dog killed a monkey infant. In revenge, over the past month, monkeys have grabbed every dog they
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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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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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Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Afghanistan becomes the Graveyard of Empires, California in the Mexican-American War, Doctor’s Plot, Spanish slavery, NatGeo, Independent Labour Party, Hawaii and the Bayonet Constitution Holidays and Observances on January 13 Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers is a memorial on the General Roman Calendar
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Today: New Years Eve, 7th Day of Christmas, St. Sylvester, East India Company, American Invasion of Canada, Migration Period, James I the Conqueror, Reconquista, Arthur Guinness, Marshall Plan, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Lord Cornwallis, Pax Romana, John Wycliffe, and More Holidays and Observances on December 31 Today is the 7th Day
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Today: Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe, Japan commits the Rape of Nanking, the EU conducts a coup with the Lisbon Treaty, Christmas Music And More . . . Holidays and Observances on Dec. 13 Acadian Remembrance Day – Acadia was a sizable area of French settlements in coastal Canada
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A look at some of the history and holidays on December 3 Holidays & Observances on December 3 The feast of St. Francis Xavier, one of history’s most successful Catholic missionaries and, in 1534, one of the co-founders of the Jesuit Order. Before joining the clergy, Xavier was a student
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A look at some of the history and holidays on November 26 Holidays & Observances on November 26 Feast of St. Siricius, a Pope who lived and died in his 75th year, that also being the 15th year of his papacy, on this day in 399 A.D. He is an
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Islam is an aggressive religion. Wahhabi Islam is an even more aggressive culture, wiping out all the color and light of the native cultures it destroys. I got an email with reminding me of how Borg-like Wahhabi Islam is. Wherever it goes, it destroys the native culture and leaves blackness
Continue readingIn the post immediately preceding this one, I spoke about American gypsy girls who are steered into young marriage, followed immediately by a career as a homemaker, no matter their talents. There’s nothing wrong with being a wonderful mother and homemaker, but one does wonder, of course, whether those girls
Continue readingSince his first day in office, Obama has both passively and aggressively sought to undermine Israel. Unfortunately, he’s proven to be very good at that, which stands in stark contrast to his administrative ineptitude with Obamacare. Under Obama’s watch, Iran is getting near the nuclear bomb; the idea of a
Continue readingThe OWS people have made much of their pathetic status compared to the “wealthy 1%.” As I’ve mentioned before, this is a completely spurious argument, because it makes the 99% sound like a single homogenous lump all similarly situated to medieval serfs. Nothing could be further from the truth. In
Continue readingMake new friends But keep the old The one is silver And the other gold. —Song that every school child in my (and Obama’s) age group learned growing up. It’s becoming very apparent that Obama either wasn’t paying attention in school or that he is willfully disregarding one of the
Continue readingThis is an important story that’s getting almost no play in the American press: the Indian government believes that an American Muslim who was arrested in connection with a plan to attack the Jyllands-Posten paper, was not only behind the horrific Mumbai massacre, but was also plotting attacks against Indian
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