Five Books On The Battle of New Orleans
On this week 157 years ago, New Orleans fell to Union forces in shocking fashion. Many observers then and now (including the author of an upcoming ECW volume) have deemed the sudden loss of the South’s largest city and its extensive port and manufacturing...
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VIRGINIA: Judge Rules City Can’t Move Confederate Monuments CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A Virginia judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville are war monuments that the...
Biden Plays the Race Card
As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem. As a senator from Delaware in the ’70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist. As chairman...
Dragging Death Murderer Executed
This week, 44-year-old John William King will be put to death in the Huntsville Unit in Texas for the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. A white supremacist who was involved in the horrific 1998 murder of a black man where he and two others tied the victim to the back of...
Green Dreams
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years. “That’s a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced,” James Meigs, former editor of Popular Mechanics magazine, says in my...Obiter Dicta
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. Read More
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