Every school kid knows, or at least used to be taught, about Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of “Louisiana” from France for15 million dollars in 1803. That was $18 per sq sq mile or a little under 3 cents per/acre. Wow! School…
Category: Conservatism
Toward America’s Next Great Awakening, Rolling Thunder, Part II
I hesitate using the term “great awakening” here lest I get a chewing out by Larry Schweikart, a real historian, for pirating that term, for they were recognized periods in American history. But because they were “events” of the rolling…
Why America Needs Another Great Awakening; a Preface
Now that we’ve been treated to 90 days of witnessing how (un)quickly and (in)effectively government can move once it has declared a “Class 5”-magnitude medical emergency in America, can we agree that the people we’ve elected over the past…
“Want-to”: A History Lesson on Stretching Logic Too Far
As you have noticed, especially on Twitter and other social media, a lot of conservatives of every age lead with their biases to come to a conclusion about underlying facts of conservatism. I call these kinds of biases “want-to’s” for…