Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

Stahr‘s extensively researched biography is also a sweeping history of the years before and after the Civil War. It could not be otherwise. William Henry Seward, helped shape, not only those tumultuous years, but also our own time. This book belongs in the library of anyone seriously interested in American history in general, and the Civil War period in particular. Walter Stahr is both an astute biographer and a gifted writer. It’s a cliché to say that he makes history come alive, but it is the truth.

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Sons of The Father is a collection of essays written mostly by academic historians. The scholarship of the authors is readily apparent in the quality of the writing. But the essays were not the dry academic prose one might expect from snooty academics. They were uniformly interesting and each culminated in a very useful bibliography tied to the footnotes that the writers used to support their various theses.

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October 1, 2013 could be considered the new “Black Tuesday.” That was the day the government rolled out the Health Insurance Marketplace website. This, of course, is the website for the insurance exchanges required as part of the Obamacare law. Although the Obama administration has tried its best to put on a smiley face, there is no denying this so far has been, much like the Obama foreign policy, the Obama domestic policy, the Obama economic policy, etc., an unmitigated disaster.

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A good book with a disappointing conclusion. It is not possible to know how history might have been different had Lincoln lived and his less punitive plan for the South implemented. Arguably, an alternative conclusion to the author’s is that Radical reconstruction, far from deserving applause, prolonged and intensified the rancor between the races in the South, delayed economic recovery for the region and impeded civil rights for black Americans.

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The appellation “Obama Administration” is outdated. Obama Regime is more accurate. Regimes unlike constitutional governments, rule by imposition and by fiat: If the emperor/king doesn’t like a law, he refuses to enforce it. If there is no law to do his bidding, he conjures up a regulation to do what he wants done. The wishes and prerogatives of the regime take precedence over the wants and needs of those it perceives as its subjects.

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The government shutdown may have just cost me $300. If I thought we could get rid of Obama's signature piece of legislation, I, and a lot of other people would happily pay ten times that amount.

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A hyperbolic needle can be defined as an insult laced barb, dripping in hyperbole with the intent to inject maximum opprobrium upon its intended target. Recently, we have witnessed several hyperbolic needles tossed out so freely by the Democrats you’d …

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Thornton accomplishes several things in this article. His primary purpose is to illustrate the genius of our system of government. Secondarily, he shows the idiocy of the MSM, specifically, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin. Baldwin suggested, in somewhat less than eloquent prose, that the Republican's approach to controlling the house was: “Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up.” Thornton shows that, like or not, this is precisely how the house is supposed to function.

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The therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine. - Szasz

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Until recently the Family Rights and Privacy Act protected personally identifiable student information from disclosure to outside agencies. However, in 2012 new USDOE regulations nullified those protections. Educational institutions may now release student records to non-governmental agencies without first obtaining parents' written consent. The new rules also broaden the permissible purposes for which third parties can access students’ records without first notifying parents. Effective safeguards of student identification are noticeably weak.

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