Saturday, April 21, 2018
Time to do something radical
There's a science-backed treatment for drug addiction that works — but it's nearly impossible to get
Former U.S. Atty Andrew McCarthy
McCabe Caught Up In Obama DoJ Effort To Help Hilary During Campaign
Friday, April 20, 2018
On this day in 1914,
THE LUDLOW MASSACRE
On this day in 1914, the Colorado National Guard killed dozens of men, women and children who had assembled to support a strike against Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in Ludlow, Colorado. The company was owned by John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The murders ended a strike by 11,000 miners who failed in their efforts to obtain better wages and working conditions. Sixty-six men, women, and children died during the strike, but not a single militiaman or private detective was charged with any crime.
On this day in 1898,
U.S. Declares War Against Spain
On this day in 1898, President McKinley asked Congress to declare war against Spain in what many historians now characterize as a war of American Imperialism. The purpose of the war declaration was to side with the Cubans in their fight for independence from Spain. McKinley asked for the war declaration after the USS Maine was sunk in Havana harbor and 254 men were lost. Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughriders defeated Spain in a series of battles which resulted four months later in the Treaty of Paris, which ceded Puerto Rico, Guan and the Philippine Islands to the United States.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
On this day at the Diet of Worms, 1521
MARTIN LUTHER REFUSES TO RECANT
Holy Roman Emperor Declares Luther a Heretic
Issues Death Sentence
"Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Holy Scriptures or by evident reason-for I can believe neither pope nor councils alone, as it is clear that they have erred repeatedly and contradicted themselves-I consider myself convicted by the testimony of Holy Scripture, which is my basis; my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Thus I cannot and will not recant, because acting against one's conscience is neither safe nor sound. God help me. Amen." - Martin Luther.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
On this day in 1947,
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Robinson debuted at second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers and won rookie-of-the year. Robinson led the National League in batting in 1949, when he was named MVP, and was voted an All-Star from 1949 to 1954.
I remember sitting in the upper deck at Milwaukee County Stadium with my dad in or before 1955 to watch the Braves play the Dodgers. By that time the Dodgers had four other African Americans on their team: Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, Don Newcomb and Joe Black. Junior Gilliam was one of my favorite players. Campanella won the National League MVP award in 1951, 1953 and 1955, before a car crash in 1958 rendered him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
I had the 1956 Topps baseball card pictured above. My mother threw it and all my other baseball cards out during my freshman year at UW-Madison!
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play in the Major Leagues
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Robinson debuted at second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers and won rookie-of-the year. Robinson led the National League in batting in 1949, when he was named MVP, and was voted an All-Star from 1949 to 1954.
I remember sitting in the upper deck at Milwaukee County Stadium with my dad in or before 1955 to watch the Braves play the Dodgers. By that time the Dodgers had four other African Americans on their team: Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, Don Newcomb and Joe Black. Junior Gilliam was one of my favorite players. Campanella won the National League MVP award in 1951, 1953 and 1955, before a car crash in 1958 rendered him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
I had the 1956 Topps baseball card pictured above. My mother threw it and all my other baseball cards out during my freshman year at UW-Madison!
On this day in 1865,
PRESIDENT LINCOLN DIES
On this day in 1865, President Lincoln died from a gunshot to the head the night before while attending “Our American Cousin” at the Ford Theater.
Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who hoped Lincoln’s assassination would somehow turn the tide of the Civil War. Booth had originally sought to kidnap Lincoln on March 20 and take him to the Confederate capital of Richmond but Lincoln failed to appear at the location where Booth and his conspirators lay in wait. Although Richmond had fallen and Lee had surrendered during the interim, Booth hatched a second plot to kill the top leaders of the Union government. At the same time that Lincoln was shot, Secretary of State Seward was shot in his home and seriously wounded. Vice President Andrew Johnson was also supposed to be shot but his would-be assassin chickened out.
Booth may have been stalking Lincoln for some time. On March 4, 1865, he was caught in a picture attending Lincoln's second inaugural address:
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