History

The American Revolution Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic 0
- History
- July 6, 2020
One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox. The book is Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. It’s a brilliant and thrilling adventure story by a man who worked his entire life to make the
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No, the French Revolution Was Not a Good Thing 0
- History
- July 6, 2020
Is America headed for a French-style revolution along the lines of the one in 1789? Let’s hope not. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said as much in a tweet comparing Democrats to French revolutionaries. It appears the French Revolution has now come to the Democratic Party based on initial primary results from New York and Kentucky.
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California Senate Opens Door to Legalized Discrimination 0
- History
- June 26, 2020
On November 5, 1996, Californians headed to the ballot box to weigh in on the California Civil Rights Initiative – aka Proposition 209 – to end government discrimination. The measure, modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, read: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group, on the basis of race,
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Pelosi Cancels History By Removing Her Predecessors 0
- History
- June 24, 2020
On June 18, the portraits of four former Speakers of the House, all connected to the Confederate States of America and the Civil War, were removed from the walls of the Capitol. In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of
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CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias 0
- History
- June 19, 2020
One of the more amusing spectacles of the recent protests has been the establishment of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) – now called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) – in the middle of downtown Seattle, Washington. Conservatives on social media have had a field day making light of the pint-sized experiment in neo-Marxist
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History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline 0
- History
- June 18, 2020
A few days ago, it was revealed that American happiness had taken a historic plunge. Measuring numbers against the last 50 years, researchers from NORC at the University of Chicago announced that only 14 percent of Americans report being “very happy.” This is a “17 percentage-point drop since 2018,” the organization reported. Many Americans likely
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