Seventy-five Years After FDR’s Court-packing Scheme Failed
Seventy-five years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court in order to insure that his extra-constitutional New Deal policies...
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Black and Conservative: A Tribute to George Schuyler
A look at George Schuyler, a forgotten black conservative, one of the most prolific editorialists, black or white, that twentieth century America has ever...
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July 1, 1937: Gestapo Arrests Protestant Resistance Leader Bishop Niemöeller
Seventy-five years ago in Nazi Germany, on July 1, 1937, the Gestapo arrested war hero and champion of Protestant resistance Bishop Martin Niemöeller,...
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224th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution
Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, on June 21, 1788, after three days of debate and by a final vote of 57-47, members...
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Fifty Years After the Port Huron Statement
Fifty years ago, on June 15, 1962, the radical left-wing SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) issued their Port Huron Statement opposing capitalism,...
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Twenty-Five Years After Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A quarter of a century ago President Ronald Reagan demanded that Gorbachev "tear down this wall," and the wall came down, but the...
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Movie on Cristeros War Exposes Mexican Govt.’s Anti-Christian Campaign
“¡Viva Cristo Rey!” (“Long Live Christ the King.”) That was the rallying cry for millions of Mexicans during the second and third decades...
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June 1, 1812: Prelude to the War of 1812
Two hundred years ago, President Madison presented a case for war against Britain in our nation's first declared war. Congress, though, not the...
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Duty, Honor, Country: Douglas MacArthur
“Duty, Honor, Country,” Douglas MacArthur solemnly intoned in 1962 to the cadets at West Point , invoking the three words that summed up...
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The “People’s Department”: 150th Anniversary of Dept. of Agriculture
On May 15, 1862, Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture, or what he called the "People's Department." Similar special interest federal agencies have...
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Fifty Years After MacArthur’s “Duty, Honor, Country” Speech
Fifty years ago, on May 12, 1962, Douglas MacArthur bade farewell to the cadets at West Point, an academy that he attended and...
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Seventy-Five Years After the Hindenburg
Airship travel was a big success, until that fateful day in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937, when the Hindenburg met her fate. ...
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Twenty Five Years after the Meech Lake Accord
Canada, like the United States, has struggled with federalism. Twenty-five years ago, with the Meech Lake Accord, it looked like the problem had...
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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Mystery
In the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case — the case that became known as the crime of the century — was an innocent man...
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Remembering Pierre Laval, the Communazi
The artificial ideological line that presumably places Hitler and Mussolini on one side of a mythical ideological spectrum and which places Stalin and...
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