Why did John Wilkes Booth call Abraham Lincoln a “Tyrant”?
When John Wilkes Booth put a bullet in Abraham Lincoln's head at Ford's Theatre on April 14th.1865, he jumped over the balcony rail onto the stage, broke his leg, then stood up, faced the audience, and proclaimed "Sic...
To be American, American Exceptionalism and Assimilation- How Things Worked and Must Work
I think there is a general misconception of just what assimilation means to the ideal of “to be American”.
To understand American exceptionalism you must first realize that it was created by the American people, not...
The #NeverTrump Ship of Fools
The political killing season has gotten more grisly, it seems, only because this time, the assassins seem to be losing.
Since the rise of the internet media around 2006, finding ways to separate patriot voters from the herd and convince them...
The Master Plan for America’s Mental Breakdown, Part IV
Having presented Parts I, II and III, I think we've established the reality of this "insanity" and that it is the mental disorder of cognitive dissonance...only it has been intentionally injected into America's youth,...
Wikipedia and the Killing of History, a Guide
This will be a short note to highlight a link to a subject I researched for a commentary about Manifest Destiny mentioned in historian Bernard DeVoto's book 1846, the Year of Decision (1943). Almost...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...