Saturday, June 20, 2020
Conservative Berkeley Law Prof John Yoo:
“Boy was I wrong. Trump campaigns like a populist but governs like a constitutional conservative."
On this day in 1863,
WEST VIRGINIA,
AFTER SECEDING FROM VIRGINIA AND CONFEDERACY,
BECOMES 35TH STATE
On this day in 1863, West Virginia was admitted into the Union as the 35th state following its secession from secessionist Virginia and the Confederacy.
After Virginia seceded to join the seven southern states that had originally seceded to form the Confederacy, western Virginians, who were mostly non-slave-owning farmers and laborers, felt increasingly alienated from and controlled by the eastern oligarchical planter-slaveholders. This sentiment had existed from the days of the American Revolution when area residents had unsuccessfully petitioned the Continental Congress to form the state of Westsylvania.
On June 11, 1861, western Virginia delegates voted to secede and wanted to name the state “Kanawha”. Western Virginia was immediately invaded by Confederate forces who took over the region claiming, ironically, that the westerners had no right to secede.
Notwithstanding the presence of Confederate troops, western Virginians voted in a public referendum for secession from Virginia and drew up a state constitution.
President Abraham Lincoln, who like many others had reservations about West Virginia’s legal right to secede from Virginia, admitted West Virginia into statehood on this date two years later.
Friday, June 19, 2020
On this day in 1972,
Curt Flood
Loses Supreme Court Free Agency Case
Lawsuit Effectively Ends Career
On this day in 1953,
Commie Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
First U.S. Citizens Executed For Treason
Gave Soviet Union Top Secret Info re Nuclear Weapon Designs, etc.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
On this day in 1812,
U.S. "Hawks" Declare War Against Britain
In Hopes of Seizing Canada
U.S. Gets Butt Kicked Until Andrew Jackson Wins At New Orleans
A Hip Hughes video history
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
On this day in 1972,
The Beginning of Watergate:
Nixon Reelection Employees Caught Burglarizing Dem Headquarters
Video: G. Gordon Liddy recalls that night - "I think I'm going to jail."
Monday, June 15, 2020
On this day in 1215, the origin of the right to a jury of one's peers and the writ of habeas corpus:
King John Signs Magna Carta
Pope, opposed to civil rights, invalidates - England dissolves into civil war
A Hip Hughes History video
Sunday, June 14, 2020
On this day in 2017,
Crazy Bernie Voter
Who Expressed Hatred for Republicans
Shoots Congressman Steve Scalise
Attempts Mass Murder
of Other Congressional Republicans
Horrible eye witness video of shooting as dozens of shots are fired
On this day in 1846,
California's Bear Flag Revolt Begins
Americans Seek Independence from Mexico
Video summary
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