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Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2021
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2022
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2019
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela.1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 27, 2010
Regular readers know that I’ve had my share of troubles in Oklahoma, where a politically-motivated Attorney General abused his office years ago to threaten myself and other initiative petitioners. Thankfully, we won that battle. Now, with a critical election nearly upon us, there’s a different problem in Oklahoma. Put another…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2023
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar (portrait, above) entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 29, 2023
Where without any change in circumstances the things held to be just by law are seen not to correspond with the concept of justice in actual practice, such laws are not really just; but wherever the laws have ceased to be advantageous because of a change in circumstances, in that…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: May 25, 2014
On May 25, 1810, citizens of Buenos Aires expelled Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros starting the Argentine War of Independence. On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. The Scopes Trial — formally…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 17, 2001
I'm a loving guy. But some things just make me mad, I'm sorry. Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana has an image of a Minuteman on a wall near the main door. It is, or was, a depiction of the kind of man who fought for our freedom and…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 21, 2020
The University of Queensland may expel 20-year-old philosophy major Drew Pavlou. He has been protesting against the Chinese Communist Party and in support of the Hong Kong protesters, but perhaps most tellingly has criticized his school’s ties to China. Xu Jie, the Chinese consul general in Brisbane, has blasted Pavlou…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 12, 2015
Who is your state’s attorney general? It’s an awesomely powerful position. And it is therefore worth asking any future candidates for that office by what clear principles of justice, fairness, impartiality and even mercy they will abide. They will all, no doubt, claim to be “tough on crime” — and…