As I first saw yesterday on The Wife’s favorite site, the usually-amusing cakewrecks.com, the Outrage Of The Week comes from Greenwich, New Jersey, where Heath and Deborah Campbell have had to fight to get a birthday cake made for their… Continue Reading
On this day in 1773, patriots protested the Tea Act by dressing up as Mohawk and Narragansett Indians, boarding ships in the Harbor, and dumping over 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The water of Boston Harbor has been… Continue Reading
Today, the election to choose the forty-fourth President of the United States was held. You may think that election took place six weeks ago on November 4, but you’re wrong if you do. That was an election to choose the… Continue Reading
Today in 1791, the Bill of Rights was enacted. Our then-young Constitution was amended in fulfillment of a promise made to those who had misgivings about its strong Federal government. The genius of the original Constitution was to divide power… Continue Reading
December 7, 1941 is the day America came of age on the world stage. By way of background, what we now call World War II had been raging for at least two years, pretty much everywhere but in the Americas.… Continue Reading
Longtime Readers of this blog will already be familiar with the fact that the phrase “under God” is a late addition to the Pledge of Allegiance. Well, it turns out that the guy whose idea it was to insert it… Continue Reading
Readers: I write about politics, government, history, and civic issues a lot. It’s time to see if you all are able to keep up. Here is a test by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute — as you might expect, average scores… Continue Reading
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing… Continue Reading
Some interesting ideas in today’s Fish Wrapper about changing the way initiatives are handled in California. I tend to agree that initiatives are abused in the form of too frequently doing an end run around the legislative process.* In theory.… Continue Reading
We advocates of same-sex marriage need to face up to a fact that we will find unpleasant: we do not yet have a sufficient popular consensus behind our policy to implement it. Yes, this is a case of America having… Continue Reading