We left Iraq long before we should have; Iraq has no history of democracy. With our armed forces in the country for another decade or so (like we did in Germany and Japan after WWII) we could turn over most of the fighting to the Iraqis, but we’d be...
On 3 Mar 1915, the US Naval Reserve was founded. Toward the end of the Nineteenth Century “naval militias,” organized in a number of states, represented the Navy’s manpower reserve. During the Spanish-American War naval militia units assisted in...
This unbelievable situation must be chilling the dedication of every soldier in the field; our government refuses to deny reports by the Afghan government that NATO has agreed to have the soldiers who burned copies of the Quran face trial in an...
On 1 Mar 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the US and Germany, was...
On 25 Feb 1870, Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, was sworn into the US Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. During the Civil War, Revels, a college-educated minister, helped form African...
On 20 Feb 1042, during WWII, Lt. Edward O’Hare took off from the aircraft carrier Lexington in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul-and minutes later became America’s first flying ace. In mid-February 1942, the Lexington sailed...
Obama got caught with his hand overreaching, as it were, into the cookie jar of religious liberties when he ordered the Catholic Church, among others, to provide birth control and abortion services to their employees. Had to pull back quickly when...
On 5 Feb 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed an increase in the size of the US Supreme Court—his ‘court packing’ proposal. It failed. However, this act ultimately succeeded in convincing the Justices to ignore the actual words in our...
On 30 Jan 1968, during the agreed upon cease-fire during the Tet Holiday, in coordinated attacks all across South Vietnam, communist forces launched their largest offensive of the Vietnam War against South Vietnamese and US troops. About 80,000...
There are a lot of reasons why it’s in everyone’s best interest for most countries not to have nuclear weapons. This story is one example. On 25 Jan 1995, Russia’s early-warning defense radar detected an unexpected missile launch...