the Judiciary Act of 1869
Yesterday I learned that the original configuration of the United States Supreme Court had an even number of justices: six justices. The relevant Founders didn’t consider the possibility of a...
Who Died and Made You Supreme Court Justice?
Back in the last days of Newsweek as a serious periodical delivering substantial news and information an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court retired. This jurist, David Souter, was...
unchecked chauvinism and nationalism
Since Donald Trump entered the Presidential race way back in 2015 and deliberately tilted his message and branding in a certain way, people have been reintroduced to the concept...
Brad Torgersen on THE SEVENTIES
Regarding who was President at the time: My wife and I watched some of that SEVENTIES series Tom Hanks helped produce, and I was struck by the notion that...
Abandon the Western Traditions At Our Peril
Cultural evolution is an outcome of thinking humans yet to an extent we take that for granted. We expect that as time passed a change in a given factor...
Robert Smalls by Ken Raymond
to quote Ken Raymond On this day in history, April 5, 1839, Republican Congressman Robert Smalls was born. Smalls, who was born a slave, represented South Carolina’s 5th and...
Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Address
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered, for among other things obviously, warning about the dangers of the “Military Industrial Complex”. In fact he coined the phrase. As a Supreme...
Medieval Water
Some might ask if people drank water in the Middle Ages. That seems like a strange question to me, but it did get someone to write an article about...
Ronald Reagan Brandenburg Gate Speech 28th Anniversary
28 years today President Ronald Reagan gave his speech at the Brandenburg Gate, addressing the whole of western civilization, especially the Germans in the audience, but with a special...
Our Dying Language (01) – Gentleman
In our wonderful language we tend to misuse and abuse words and this misuse unfortunately falls into a trend. At that point people misuse the word more than they...