Filed under: Industry, Documentary, Reality-Free General Motors has made a lot of dumb decisions in their day, and three-quarters of them are still being sold to gullible car-buyers across the globe. However, one of their biggest, boneheaded moves doesn't involve a car at all. The soon-to-be-former ...

“This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,� by Drew Gilpin Faust, has won the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize....

You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars between enemy tribes take an almost unbelievable human toll. The photos in this pictorial show what a truly miserabl...

Wilders to screen Fitna at the Capitol In their continuing quest for Islamic world domination and the destruction of a Judeo-Christian America, Islamic groups are trying to stop this screening. Senator Kyl is merely upholding a basic tenet of American society - freedom of speech. Can we allow the su...

One of the Union Army’s most famous Generals, is best known not for great victories, but for being fired by President Abe Lincoln, for being too hesitant to engage his troops against Confederate forces.  Even when significantly outnumbering the rebels, Major General George B. McClellan, was slow ...

Hugh Pickens writes "On the 200th red-letter day of his birth, feds* Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed as historians have discovered that Lincoln had an avid interest in cutting-edge zealous industrialindustrial tools science and its applications. During...

Now Playing @ Black Cat Bone Theatre! Did President Lincoln suspend Habeas Corpus? Answer: Yes, in 1861 and 1862 Was Habeas Corpus ever restored? Answer: Yes, in 1866. Here's the story: As the Civil War started, in the very beginning of Lincoln's presidential term, a group of "Peace Democrats" propo...

In "What Caused the Civil War", a book part autobiography, part history, part sociology, University of Richmond professor Edward Ayers gives us a personal account of his upbringing in Kingsport, Tennessee in the 1960's. At the time of publication in......

Yesterday I left work a bit early for an appointment a had with my periodontist. I left a bit early to give myself time to go home for a courtesy teeth brushing and gargle, and also a trip by the ATM in anticipation of bowling night. As I was driving there, I got a call from the periodontist asking ...

Today has been - for members of the Church of England - the commemoration of Charles, King and Martyr, better known as Charles I of England. A day that brings out the Roundhead in me (until I remember about Oliver Cromwell, which then brings out the Leveller in me). “Martyr”. Good grief....