Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. New law allows Virginia localities to remove Confederate statues and monuments Cavalier Daily (Univerity of Virginia) ^ | APr 13,2020 | Zach Rosenthal Posted on 04/13/2020 4:00:55 PM PDT by ml/nj Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., signed a bill Saturday allowing individual localities to remove, relocate or contextualize…

Skip to comments. Schumer and Pelosi Tell GOP to 'Stop Political Posturing,' After Dems Blocked Bipartisan Paycheck Protection Funding townhall.com ^ | 4/12/2020 | Reagan McCarthy Posted on 04/13/2020 7:23:23 AM PDT by rktman Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker Pelosi released a joint statement Monday morning demanding…

Passover and Easter are brothers, as are Jews and Christians, as are (metaphorically) national talk show host Michael Medved and I. We both grew up in Jewish homes and had immigrant grandparents who grew to love America. He became an Orthodox Jew, I became a Christian, and we’ve both written…

Skip to comments. Hamas Top Dog Tells Israel to Deliver Ventilators, Or 'We’ll Stop the Breathing of Six Million Israelis' FrontPage Magazine ^ | Apr 9, 2020 | Robert Spencer Posted on 04/09/2020 6:50:05 AM PDT by SJackson Where have we heard that number before? Yahya Sinwar, the leader of…

I keep thinking about American history in these days of war against a deadly virus, and why this war feels so much different than the ones we've suffered through before. And why so many of us being asked to do our part by doing nothing feels so strange. "Be a…

— For 146 years, the Barnum and Bailey Circus was known for being the greatest show on earth. None of it would have been possible if it were not for an ambitious entrepreneur named PT Barnum. While his life and career were sometimes the source of controversy, he truly was…

In Horace Greeley: Print, Politics and the Failure of American Nationhood, James M. Lundberg offers a new portrait of the nineteenth-century US public figure, Horace Greeley, the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune and an advocate for the anti-slavery North and emerging Republican Party. This rich history provides key insights into how…

Biographies of the infamous figures of history are often more interesting than biographies of acclaimed men and women.  Yes, biographies of infamous historical figures can degenerate into a sort of historical rubber-necking at the scene of havoc to which they contributed.  But there is much to learn from the lives…

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Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule thinks conservatives should abandon originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation. His argument is such bad constitutional law that it is really neither constitutional nor law. It is terrible political and legal strategy. It is at odds with American constitutional history. It reflects the worst…