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Showing Up: The Quiet Strength That Shapes Who We Become
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 18, 2025
Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court. The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices
READ MOREAs has become abundantly clear to the American sport-watching public, political movements and causes are all the rage for the multi-millionaire entertainers who play games for a living. From the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which is now so ubiquitous in sports as to not have a nominal leader, to Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher Brent Suter’s
READ MOREThe final three justices in this Supreme Court series bring us from 1939 to the present. 7. William O. Douglas (April 17, 1939 – November 12, 1975) Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed Justice Louis Brandeis, Douglas was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-4 vote. He served with Justice James Clark McReynolds
READ MOREContinuing our Oracle of Bacon-style journey through the history of the Supreme Court, we cover the years between 1863 to 1941. Part one can be found here, covering the Court’s first session in 1790 through the Civil War period. 4. Stephen Johnson Field (May 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897) Stephen Johnson Field served with James
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