Written by Joe Wolverton, II Since the early days of this Republic, various of our Founding Fathers were accused of being irreligious, impious, and even atheist. Those accusations are unsupportable lies told by those whose own “tolerance” of the faithful informs not only their personal agendas, but taints and twists their biographical descriptions of...
Happy Birthday General Robert E. Lee! The idol of the South to this day, Virginian Robert E. Lee had some difficulty in adjusting to the new form of warfare that unfolded with the Civil war, but this did not prevent him from keeping the Union armies in Virginia at bay for almost three years....
In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry. Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the...
70 years ago today — the day that lives in Infamy! We owe a great deal of gratitude to all those who moved forward after this terrible attack to defend this country and win the war for freedom. Pearl Harbor Attack announcement – Radio Announcement December 7 1941 President Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Speech “I...
Written by Jack Kenny If Robert Taft had been a baseball player instead of a United States Senator, he might have led the league in left-handed compliments. As it was, he was often “damned with faint praise” by people who, while paying tribute to the power of his intellect, quite often suggested both the...
Military commissions have always been controversial in U.S. history, and no more so than in the past 10 years. Military commissions have traditionally been defined as executive branch courts, created by necessity under a system where ordinary courts are not functioning, such as during a rebellion or military occupation of a foreign country. They...
A friend recently recommended this video series to me entitled “Know Your Enemy” by the Fuel Project, and I devoted most of my spare waking hours in the last few days watching it. It has nothing to do with fuel in a literal sense, but I guarantee you will not regret the time you...
Recently Newt Gingrich has attempted to make a comeback at a time when conservatives are disgusted with nearly all policies of government. But who is he really and what does he stand for. The Real Newt Gingrich Part I The Real Newt Gingrich Part II The Real Newt Gingrich Part 3 The Real Newt...
Please join me on November 10, 2011, in wishing the United States Marine Corps a Happy 236th Birthday. I’m proud to honor my fellow Marines past and present on this special day. Please take a moment to watch the birthday tribute sponsored by my friend Bob Parsons by clicking the ‘View 2011 Tribute’ button below. I’d...
October 2, 2007 – The Jackson City Council voted 8-1 on the motion of Council member Rahm, seconded by Council member Dodd, the Cooperative Service Agreement between USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services for wildlife damage management services, with Council member Neudecker voting nay, contingent upon Madison County approving their agreement with the USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services. The mission of...
Written by John F. McManus Original Post History is replete with the deeds of successful individuals. Some rose to prominence as the builders of businesses while others served as the leaders of some noteworthy organizations. Still more made their marks as philanthropists, or served their nations in patriotic or religious endeavors, or spent their...
In 1066, William the Conqueror troops sail to England In 1528, Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die In 1542, Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego. In 1678, “Pilgrim’s Progress” published In 1704, Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of...
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sees a meteor fall into the sea. In 1656, England & France sign peace treaty. In 1683, Germantown, Pennsylvania was founded by thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany. In 1782, The Great Seal Of The U.S. was adopted by Congress with the Eagle, arrows, & E. Pluribus Unum motto. In 1789,...
In 1628, The town of Salem, Massachusetts, was founded. In 1716, the first American lighthouse lights up in the Boston Harbor in Massachusetts. In 1752, England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear as the day before this day was officially September 2, 1752, Old Style (no Sept 3-Sept 13th). In...
In 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the isthmus of Panama and “discovers” the Pacific Ocean. In 1515, King Francis of France defeats the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthias Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy. In 1564, On the verge of attacking Pedro Menendez’s Spanish settlement at San Agostin, Florida, Jean Ribault’s French fleet is...
In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island. In 1672, Colonial American clergyman Solomon Stoddard, 29, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. He remained at this pulpit for the next 57 years. In 1695, Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks at the Battle of Zenta. In 1709, John...
In 1224, The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England. They were originally called “Grey Friars” because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern Franciscans is brown.) In 1565, Jean Ribault sets sail from Fort Caroline to destroy the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, but his...
In 1087, Death of William I, “the Conqueror,” King of England In 1513, Forces of James IV of Scotland battled English troops in Flodden near Branxton, in the English county of Northumberland. The Scots were heavily defeated and James IV was killed along with all his nobles. In 1583, English explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert...
In 70, A.D., Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem. In 1298, Marco Polo captured by Genoese, at Curzola In 1522, an expedition begun by Ferdinand Magellan completed the circumnavigation of the globe. Magellan did not complete the journey…having been killed by Philippine natives the previous year. In 1533, Queen Elizabeth I of...
In 1638, Queen Anne (of Austria) gives birth after 23 years of marriage to the King of France, to an heir to the throne: Louis XIV, “the Sun King” In 1664, After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York. In 1698, the...
In 256, North African bishops vote unanimously that Christians who had lapsed under persecution must be re-baptized upon reentering the Church. The vote led to a battle between Cyprian, one of the North African bishops, and Stephen, bishop of Rome, who disagreed with the vote. That Cyprian yielded has been a longstanding argument for...
In 1385, English King Richard the Second invaded Scotland with a force estimated at 80-thousand men. In 1522, Adrian VI (Netherlands) is crowned last non-Italian Pope until 1978 In 1535, Pope Paul II deposes & excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII In 1742, Swarms of grasshoppers destroy pastures and crops in Pennsylvania. In 1751, English...
In 30, B.C., (by some estimates), the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt known as Cleopatra committed suicide. In 1146, A conference of European leaders outlawed the crossbow. By banning the effective weapon, it was believed that the leaders had ended wars for all time. In 1645, Dutch and American Indians made...
In 413, Athenian army besieging Syracuse fails to retreat because of an eclipse; later trapped & destroyed (BCE) In 1172, Marguerite, wife of Henry Plantagenet, “the Young King,” crowned Queen of England In 1310, Coronation of Charles I, King of Hungary In 1601, Olivier van Noort completed the first Dutch exploration of new world....
ATT00081 This was sent to me by one of my dearest friends who, below, jokingly added that he hopes my BEL (Blanket Election-by-Lot) “never lands on this woman.” But what this radio call-in audio actually points up is our already stated necessity under BEL for its accompanying Election Commission network for selective political service...
In 55, B.C., Julius Caesar invaded Britain. Remains of Roman construction remain in Britain to this day. Julius was the first of a dozen Caesars. The words “kaiser” and “czar” are both alternative forms of the same word and the same title. Julius Caesar NEVER won control of Britain. His first invasion, launched in...
In 291, B.C., in China, poison gas was first used in warfare. In 79, A.D., Pompeii & Herculaneum destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupts. In 1539, The Abbey of Glastonbury, England dissolved as Catholic institution In 1540, Hernando de Alarcon travels from Acapulco to the Gulf of California and journeys up the Colorado River. In...
In 1305, Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London. In 1328, King Philip VI of France, crowned. In 1609, Telescope demonstrated by Galileo. In 1775, King George the Third of England proclaimed that a rather serious rebellion was going on across the Atlantic in the colonies. It was one...
In 1138, The English defeated the Scots at Cowton Moor. Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to it being called the Battle of the Standard. In 1485, England’s King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet’s, was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses....
In 1581, Francisco Chamuscado claims Arizona/New Mexico for Spain In 1680, Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico, after driving out the Spanish. In 1831, former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery in Southampton County, Virginia. He was later executed. In 1841, the venetian blind is patented by John...
In 1619, first Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia. In 1636, Roger Williams draws up covenant for Providence Plantations In 1667, John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve. In 1741, Danish navigator Vitus Bering discovered Alaska. That’s why they call the water...
In 3580, B.C., according to the Tonight Show, a Sumerian craftsman invented the wheel; the next day, a lawyer advertises “If you’re injured by the wheel, call me.” In 1399, Richard II, King of England, surrenders to Henry, his cousin and heir and abdicates In 1561, Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland...
In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Virginia Dare was born to Ellinor and Ananias Dare. All members of the colony mysteriously vanished. In 1591, Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone...
To all of you, sing Happy Birthday to Jackson. The city is 189 years old today, Aug. 17. “By an act of the Legislature of August 17, 1822, the name of the seat of justice was changed from Alexandria to Jackson…” from p.37 Historic Madison. The actual wording of the Act was as follows: “That...
In 1057, Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan. In 1457, The completion of the “Mainz Psalter,” the earliest specifically dated printed book. (3 years after Gutenberg.) The printer’s names were Peter Schoeffer and Joachim Fust, which last is the origin of the legend of “Faust.” The Psalter...
In 410, A.D., Alaric sacks Rome. In 1040, King Duncan of Scotland was murdered by Macbeth, who then became king and ruled for 17 years. In 1415, France and England began a war after King Henry the Fifth of England claimed the French throne for himself as well. In 1498, Columbus lands at the...
In 1549, France declares war on England In 1648, Ibrahim “the Mad,” Ottoman Sultan, deposed and killed. In 1709, first known ascent in a hot-air balloon by Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao of Portugal (indoors!). In 1758, British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg. In 1776, John Paul Jones was commissioned as a captain of the...
In 258, St. Sixtus II, pope from 257 to 258, died. He was beheaded while celebrating services in a cemetery. In 523, St. Hormisdas, pope from 514 to 523, died. He effected the union of Orthodox and Catholic churches. In 1492, This was not a good day for Christopher Columbus. One of his three...
In 1305, Sir William Wallace, Scottish hero and champion of Scottish independence, was captured by the English and later executed as a traitor. In 1570, Fray Batista Segura leads a group of Spanish Jesuits to the Chesapeake Bay area to convert the Native Americans. In 1583, the first English settlement in North America was...
In 1060, Death of Henry I, King of France, Philip I becomes King of France In 1181, Supernova seen in Cassiopia. In 1265, in the Second Barons’ War in England, the Royalists under Prince Edward defeated the Barons under Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham. In 1306, King Wenceslaus the Third of...
In 10, B.C., in “I, Claudius.” The Roman emperor, Claudius the First? He was born in Lyons — real name Tiberius Claudius Drusus. He would become the next Roman emperor after Caligula. In 902, A.D., Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily In 1291, the three cantons of Uri, Unterwalden and Schwyz formed the...
In 1534, Jacques Cartier takes possession of the mainland of Canada in the name of King Francois I of France. In 1567, Mary Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate and James VI became King of Scotland at the age of one. In 1608, Captain John Smith left Jamestown to explore the Susquehanna River....
Two hundred and thirty five years ago, our forefathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in defense of their natural right to live as free individuals in a free society. They recognized that these rights came not from princes or parliaments, but from our Creator–rights that no man or government, however powerful, could...
What kind of a silly question is that to ask? It’s on the Fourth of July, of course. Why is it that we refer to the celebration of the birth of our great country by its date, rather than by its name? July 4th, if you don’t count the birthday of special people in...
The Rights Of God expected it to bring forth good grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. – Isaiah 5:2 Isaiah’s song picturing Israel as the Lord’s vineyard teaches us that God has a right to expect love, worship, and obedience from those He blesses. Unfortunately, like people in Isaiah’s day, many of...
Here is a neat little article about Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams that you might not know about: What do “Tipsy,” “Drunkard” and “Satan” have in common? They are all names bestowed upon dogs by some of the original leaders of our nation. It turns out that George Washington and John Adams, along with...
In 1520, Revenge against Montezuma, Mexicans revolted. They murdered Montezuma and attacked Spaniards. In 1548, Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans. In 1692, The Massachusetts General Court condemned four women to death as witches. In 1794, Battle of Ft. Recovery (Ohio) occurs. In 1862, Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak...
In 1284, in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, this was the day that the Pied Piper led the children out of Hamlin, Germany, never to be seen again. He did this after not being paid for piping the rats out of Hamlin. Moral: If you like the services, you better pay the piper. In 1498, the...
In 1340, Edward III, King of England, sails for Flanders with his army In 1377, Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England. In 1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers. In 1633, Galileo Galilei was forced to recant that...
In 451, A.D., Attila the Hun experiences his first and only defeat at Chalon at the hands of Roman and Visigoth legions under Aetius. In 1294, Edward III, King of England, sends his ambassadors to France, with a declaration of war In 1499, Queen Isabella sent home to the West Indies the Carib Indians...
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