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On this day in 1869, Rep. Thomas Haughey (R-AL) was shot while giving a campaign speech. He died five days later. Born in Scotland, Haughey moved to the United States at the age of fifteen and became a doctor. He lived in the hill country of northern Alabama, which became a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War. He served as regimental surgeon of the 3rd U.S. Tennessee Infantry. In 1867, he was a delegate to the Alabama constitutional convention. The following year, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

"This symbol represents a recent discovery in terms of how the early church identified itself... whether you see 1, 2, or 3 symbols may depend on whether you have discernment in your identity as a Gentile believer in the Jewish Messiah..." [Key excerpts]: "You see, God has made ONE NEW MAN from TWO distinct parts.... Jewish and Gentile believers in ONE BODY of MESSIAH.. "Many in the Church today feel that 'we Gentiles' as the Church have somehow replaced national Israel and the Jewish people in terms of the covenant promises of God... and this has in turn affected how...

My friend sent me this: Heroes of the Vietnam Generation By James Webb The rapidly disappearing cohort of Americans that endured the Great Depression and then fought World War II is receiving quite a send-off from the leading lights of the so-called 60s generation. Tom Brokaw has published two oral histories of "The Greatest Generation" that feature ordinary people doing their duty and suggest that such conduct was historically unique. Chris Matthews of "Hardball" is fond of writing columns praising the Navy service of his father while castigating his own baby boomer generation for its alleged softness and lack of...

In today's politically charged atmosphere, observing and speaking the obvious can be difficult and is often met with rage. Observations of truth are neither pro-Republican nor anti-Democrat. Truth is truth. No political party or politician is, has been or ever will be pure. America's national heritage and future greatness rests in truth, honesty, soundness of principles, and the recognition of inalienable, God given, individual liberties. These profound truths have and will define us like no other nation in history. Abandonment of these profound truths will lead to our demise. Barrack Obama took office twenty months ago and today our country...

Muslims Dig Under Temple Mount, Don't Want Jews Digging Nearby By Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief February 16, 2007 Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Amid an ongoing storm over an Israeli archeological excavation near Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a top Islamic official declared Thursday that all digging in the city should be stopped - but an Israeli archeologist pointed out that the biggest excavation in the entire area has been carried out by Muslims, unauthorized, underneath the Mount itself. Reacting to an Israeli dig near the Temple Mount, Islamic and Arab leaders have accused Israel of carrying out work that would endanger...

In the winter of 1983, archival research expert David Dodge, and former Baltimore police investigator Tom Dunn, were searching for evidence of government corruption in public records stored in the Belfast Library on the coast of Maine. By chance, they discovered the library's oldest authentic copy of the Constitution of the United States (printed in 1825). Both men were stunned to see this document included a 13th Amendment that no longer appears on current copies of the Constitution. Moreover, after studying the Amendment's language and historical context, they realized the principle intent of this "missing" 13th Amendment was to prohibit...

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations—the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted on an innocent and blameless people (in this case, the Palestinians) by an overpowering outside force (international Zionism). The Nakba is the heart of the Palestinians’ backward-looking national narrative, which depicts the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as the original sin that dispossessed the land’s native people. Every year, on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, more and more Palestinians (including Arab citizens of...

Sometimes I miss working in journalism. Not the high profile sniping that we read in the newspapers or the reports of political shenanigans, though that was often fun to write about. No. I miss the every-day conversations with people that led to intriguing stories about the lives of everyday people. It’s been almost 20 years, but I still recall meeting the man who’s mind’s eye could still see his former surroundings of 50 years earlier on that Sunday morning that will live in infamy for the United States.

There is a month for just about everything under the sun but this. Why?

Fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria, Elfriede "Alice" Edelstein and her mother boarded a boat with 100 other Jewish refugees and headed across the sea in 1940. Yet when they reached the U.S. coast, the two women were greeted not by Lady Liberty's golden torch but rather by San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. They had taken the long way to America. The Edelsteins' story, along with many others, is chronicled in Erika Lee and Judy Yung's forthcoming "Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America" from Oxford University Press. The book, available later this summer, is billed as the most comprehensive history of Angel Island's...

July, 1835, Muslims Attack Jews in Hebron (Israel ("Palestine")Tammuz - This Day in Jewish History - OU.ORG Druse Arabs attacked the Jews of Tzfat, 1838. [16 Tammuz] ... Jews of Hebron were attacked by Arabs, 1835. http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/bhyom/hebrew/tammuz.htm Palestine 1913 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine ... 1835 Event - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine ... http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/p/palestine.html Today in Palestine History 1835-07-25 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine... http://www.historyorb.com/countries/palestine In 5594 (1834), Hebron met with a heavy calamity, since it was taken by storm on the 28th day of Tamuz...

I've had these pictures sat on my PC for years so i've finally got around to hosting them. I'm slowly captioning them too, based on translations from a French Flickr account. I think he copied them from somewhere else so i don't feel too bad about using them. I'm not copying word for word anyway. Anyway, hope some of you enjoy them ! http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FIRST BLACKS WERE ALL REPUBLICANS Republicans - the racists? In 1868, Republicans elected the first black person to represent them in Congress. There were no black Democrats in Congress until 1935. For almost seven decades Republicans were the ONLY ONES electing blacks to Congress. Here are the historical facts: John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican - Louisiana; Term: 1868 Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican - South Carolina; Term:1870-1879 Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican – Georgia; Term: 1870-1871 Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican - South Carolina; Term: 1871-1873 Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican - South Carolina;...

... Bruce Cumings’s “Korean War,” [is] a powerful revisionist history of America’s intervention in Korea. Beneath its bland title, Mr. Cumings’s book is a squirm-inducing assault on America’s moral behavior during the Korean War, a conflict that he says is misremembered when it is remembered at all. It’s a book that puts the reflexive anti-Americanism of North Korea’s leaders into sympathetic historical context. Mr. Cumings is chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago and the author of “The Origins of the Korean War,” a respected two-volume survey. He mows down a host of myths about the war...

Confederacy of Dunces Deborah Lambert, July 21, 2010 Believe it or not, a new opinion poll found that a significant number of Americans do not know the answer to this question: “From which country did the United States win its independence?” Boston.com reported that 26 percent of respondents did not know that the U.S. won its independence from Great Britain, according to a Marist Poll. Six percent believed that the country could have been France, China, Japan, Mexico or Spain. Thirty-two percent of Southerners weren’t sure or picked the wrong country compared to 16% of respondents in the Northeast....

The following is from an e-mail (I have been contacted since I have done some research on Arab-Islamic slavery) I got from a person who seemed to be of a Jewish background, it's well written, I only did minor edits. An in-formal "apology" from "white" Jews to racist Islamic-fascists of the: Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party Dear racist Muslim of the NOI, NBPP, etc. Please "excuse" us for...: 1) Not dominating in the predominantly Arab-Muslim slave trade, wherein, your "glorified" Muslim "brothers" have uprooted you, sold you, traded you like cattle to the "white" [non-Jewish] man in Europe,...

There is a minor kerfuffle in the right wing blogs about Michael Bellesiles being caught publishing fiction as truth. The right wing has it in for Bellesiles, since he once faked data on gun ownership in early America, trying to prove no one owned guns then (and ergo the second amendment was meant to refer to the National Guard, not to private ownership of guns). So there are a lot of people out there to “get” him when he writes. What is interesting is that, when he wrote a very nice essay published in the Chronicles of Higher Education, that...

Jul 21, 1861: First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) The war erupts on a large scale in the east when Confederate forces under P. T. Beauregard turn back Union General Irvin McDowell's troops along Bull Run in Virginia. The inexperienced soldiers on both sides slugged it out in a chaotic battle that resulted in a humiliating retreat by the Yankees and signaled, for many, the true start of the war. At the insistence of President Lincoln, McDowell set out to make a quick offensive against Manassas Junction, a key rail center 30 miles from Washington. On July 18, the Yankee...

It is inevitably so that when two parties are in protracted conflict, neither will be faultless in conduct. Wrongs will be committed, misbehavior will be rationalized, and the sense of one’s own righteousness will excuse even long-term, strategic misdirections in course. The first two of those categories are why political settlements of disputes cannot come from attempting to argue to resolution the “original” wrong: there are always wrongs and Rashomon complexities to grasp onto to make one’s case. The latter is why the Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank and Gaza was such an historic error. Israelis would be...

"Two states, living side by side in peace and security." This, in the words of President Barack Obama, is the solution to the century-long conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East. Washington is fully and determinedly on board. So are the Europeans. The UN and the "international community" vociferously agree. Successive governments of the state of Israel have shown their support for the idea. So far, there is—just as there has always been—only one holdout. The story begins a long time ago. In April 1920, the newly formed League of Nations appointed Britain as the mandatory power...

20 July is the 41st anniversary of Apollo11 landing on the Moon.It was a great moment in American history.It's too bad our governments leaders decided that NASA abandon its mission to explore the unknown in favor of making the Islamic people "feel good about themselves.

Tonight at 8 PM Eastern, join Freedom Radio as Pat asks Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian born American, lawyer and Sharia law expert, about her status as an "infidel" in America, her books 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and 'Now They Call Me Infidel', the proposed Ground Zero mosque, and Imam Rauf's refusal to sign Former Muslims United's 'no sharia' pledge. We will also welcome historian and prolific writer Larry Schweikart, author of multiple groundbreaking works including 'A Patriot's History of the United States' and '48 Liberal Lies About American History'. His latest book is 'Seven Events that Made America America' about...

As those doomed fiberglass mammoths in the bubbling ooze at La Brea Tar Pits attest, oil in Los Angeles is an old story. But how much of that story do you know? Have you seen the Echo Park parking lot where two desperate prospectors dug Southern California's first oil well? The tiki-tinged oil well islands of Long Beach? The derrick in disguise at Beverly Hills High School? When you're awash in dire news about the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's easy to forget that Los Angeles is a major petroleum producer. That may be because much of...

When I got home from my mission back in 1973, I discovered that my family had become close with the family of James B. Allen, who was then serving as assistant church historian. (I would bring the families even closer — in 1977 I married his oldest daughter.) During the winter of 1974, with my future wife off on a BYU semester abroad in Paris, I occupied my time by working on writing a play about Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail. Sections 121 and 122 of the Doctrine and Covenants had become very important to me on my mission, and...

  As the discussion of individual liberty and civil order enters its 2,363rd year, the forum welcomes a new voice, pleading for definition, definition. In the September 11, 1962 issue of National Review an essay of signal importance was published under the title, “Freedom or Virtue?” Written with the grace and knowledge typical of all of Brent Bozell's work, the essay mounted an attack on the “fusionist” efforts of Frank Meyer and Stanton Evans, in effect affirming that there can be no peaceful coexistence of the “libertarians” and the “traditionalists” among conservatives. First, let’s take a moment to review Mr....