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Archive for the ‘America’ Category
July 23rd, 2020 - 4:05 pm § in America
Was Lincoln right to preserve the Union by force?
Of course, this is a rhetorical question. Lincoln was America’s most consequential president; world history would be very different if the United States had broken in two in the mid-19th century. The result would have been an industrialized North with a strong central government, and an agricu[...]
July 16th, 2020 - 11:42 pm § in America
Portland cops push man off bike
Yep! That’s showing ’em who’s boss! Read story here.[...]
July 10th, 2020 - 3:06 am § in America
Oklahoma tribes win big Supreme Court victory
State must recognize historic tribal boundaries The Court begins, “On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise” to the Five Tribes of land in Oklahoma in exchange for giving up their ancestral lands in Georgia and Florida. The Court ruled today this land is still “Indian cou[...]
On the Fourth of July 1852
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass 1852 What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, th[...]
“Our history was stolen from us”
An ACLU lawyer explains the rationale for getting rid of Confederate monuments. https://youtu.be/QOPGpE-sXh0[...]
Fifth Anniversary of the Third Massacre Of A Minister of Mother Emmanuel Church
The massacre of nine worshipers in Mother Emmanuel Church was nothing new for African Americans living in Charleston. even for free people this was a city of horrors. (Tell Me More About Back Then) In 1822, South Carolinians hanged the church’s founder and first minister, DENMARK V[...]
June 12th, 2020 - 2:21 pm § in America
Colorado tragedy: Shot over dog poop
Isabella Thallas, 21, and her boyfriend, Darian Simon, were shot while walking his dog in a Denver neighborhood on Thursday (June 11, 2020). A Denver TV station reported the shooting occurred “after a man yelled at Simon for commanding the dog ‘to poop.'” The man, identified by pol[...]
Antifa captures Seattle!!
Thousands taken prisoner! “Armed militant activists with the group Antifa have seized a sizable section of Seattle and are plotting to expand their territory” while “the local police surrender,” rightwing media have reported. Fox host Sean Hannity told viewers,”You have[...]