U.S. Air Force Bombs Yellowstone River
near Miles City to Break Ice Jam
Saturday, March 21, 2020
On this day in 1980,
Pres. Carter Announces U.S. Boycott
of Olympic Games in Moscow
Blames Russia's Failure to Timely Withdraw from Afghanistan
Video: NBC News Flashback
Friday, March 20, 2020
On this day in 1965,
LBJ Federalizes Alabama National Guard to Protect Selma Voting Rights Marchers
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect a 54 mile civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery led by Rev. Martin Luther King. The purpose of the march was to protest the intimidation of black voters which had resulted in almost all of the black voters of Selma not being able to register to vote. Two other marches had started but ended in violence when police attacked the peaceful marchers with dogs, billy clubs and tear gas, all caught by TV cameras and broadcast on the national news shows. Five months later Congress passed the Voting Rights Act which guaranteed the right of all citizens to vote.
On this day in 1852,
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
the best-selling novel of the 19th century,
is published
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| Simon Legree Beats Uncle Tom |
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Who didn't see this coming?
The Justice Department Moves To Drop Major Mueller Case Against Russian-Linked Companies
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Bad for the economy if true
Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus
Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus
On this day in 1942,
FDR War Relocation Authority Created
To Imprison Japanese Citizens
Democrat-Appointed Majority of Justices on Supreme Court Approve
One and Only Republican-Appointed Justice Dissents
On this day, the War Relocation Authority was created per the direction of Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt to imprison over 120,000 Japanese citizens residing in the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona solely because of their national origin.
There were three categories of Japanese citizens covered by the order: Nisei (native U.S. citizens of Japanese immigrant parents), Issei (Japanese immigrants), and Kibei (native U.S. citizens educated largely in Japan). The internees were transported to relocation centers in California, Utah, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Milton Eisenhower, the younger brother of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, was the first administrator of the WRA. He was opposed to imprisonment of Japanese citizens and resigned after 90 days.
The Democrat-appointed majority of the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by former KKK member Hugo Black, upheld this imprisonment of Japanese citizens per the president’s war powers. The only Republican-appointed member of the Supreme Court dissented.
In 1976 Republican President Gerald Ford signed an executive order prohibiting the executive branch from ever taking such action again.
In 1988 Republican President Ronald Reagan formally apologized on behalf of the American people and authorized reparations for all those detained or their descendants.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
On this day in 1968,
U.S. Troops Commit My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
Infantryman Ron Ridenhour Blows Whistle In Letter To President Nixon
Video summary
Sunday, March 15, 2020
On this day in 1833,
The Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson Avoids Civil War After Southern States Resist Tariffs
Imposed By Northern Manufacturers
Four minute video explaining the "Nullification Crisis"
28 years before the start of the Civil War, South Carolina almost triggered a military conflict with Union when it claimed the right to nullify federal tariffs, including the Tariff of Abomination.
Led by former Jackson Vice President, John Calhoun, the Nullifiers argued the compact theory of government (i.e. the states had created the federal government) allowed the states to secede from the Union and/or refuse to comply with offensive federal laws. The South had long complained about tariffs backed mostly by northeastern merchants. Although Congress lowered the tariffs as part of the Tariff Bill of 1832, South Carolinians remained outraged, said they would not pay the reduced tariffs, and threatened to leave the Union - by force if necessary. Virginia and influential southerners suggested they would support South Carolina in a military conflict.
Jackson countered that the compact theory of government was wrong, that the states had not created the federal government, and that the people themselves had created the federal government through state conventions. (Jackson’s theory was later echoed by Abraham Lincoln years during his first inaugural address.) Jackson countered South Carolina’s tariff nullification with a carrot and a stick: by further reducing the tariffs as part of the Compromise Tariff of 1833, and by threatening the use of federal military force to subdue the “traitors.”
The congressional debate was led by such luminaries as Daniel Webster, who strongly supported the Union, Henry Clay, who supported the tariffs, and Calhoun.
South Carolina ultimately relented and accepted the additional tariff reductions, but saved face by continuing to maintain it had the right to nullify federal laws.
On this day in 1767,
In 1828 Jackson became the only prisoner of war to have been elected president, having been captured by the British during the Revolutionary War when he was a 13 year old soldier. As a result of his capture, Jackson held a lifelong dislike for the British.
Andrew Jackson Born
Only P.O.W. To Be Elected President
In 1828 Jackson became the only prisoner of war to have been elected president, having been captured by the British during the Revolutionary War when he was a 13 year old soldier. As a result of his capture, Jackson held a lifelong dislike for the British.
John McCain would have been the second P.O.W. to be elected president. McCain was released from the Hanoi Hilton 47 years ago yesterday.
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