Sitemap - 2023 - Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal

Remembering the Assassination of John F. Kennedy 60 Years Later: Pondering His Life and Message after Trump

Nuremberg at Seventy-Seven Years: History Doesn’t Repeat, but it Often Rhymes - The Nazis and the Trump Republicans

“The Duty of Muslims to Drive all Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries” The Strategy that Doomed Palestinians to the Nakba

Where Does it Lead? When Leaders Call Others Vermin

Vengeance and Vermin: The Dark Heart of Trump

Remembering the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month: Armistice, Remembrance, Veterans Day, and Tipperary

Hitler’s Bier Hall Putsch at 100 Years: A Prelude to a Century of Violence

Reichs Kristallnacht at 85 Years. When Will “Never Again” mean Never Again?

Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism are Two Terms for Kill all the Jews, Sadly Many Progressives Don’t Get It

The Banality of Republican Foreign Policy Immorality

Thoughts on Mike Johnson and the Christo-Fascist Theocrats of the GOP

Waiting for Hell as the Lights Go Out in the Middle East

“Without Victory there is No Survival”: The Battle Against Hamas

The Surety of Unforeseen and Uncontrollable Events: The Fallout of Hamas’s Unforgivably Barbarous Terror Attacks Against Israel

An Israeli 9-11

Sacred Oaths, Traitors, and the Uncontrolled Antimatter Implosion of the GOP that Threatens Everyone

A Soldier Departs with a Warning

Who Did It? The Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and the Deaths of Four Little Girls at 60 Years

9-11 at 22 Years: What do You Remember?

The “New” North Korean Tactical Nuclear Missile Submarine

Mittwoch Madness: Return to Teaching & Doctoral Studies, a Sad Day in Margaritaville, and Alabama Gives us a Lot to Drink About

Nazi Kills Blacks in Jacksonville, Christian Murders Business Owner over Pride Flag, and Beware of MAGA at Social Events

Mugged: Trump Gets his Atlanta Photo-Op

Mittwoch Madness: Murder, Arraignments, and Debate Lines You Won’t Hear

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away With It. Part Seven: Courage at Chancellorsville

So Much Going On: Sláinte!

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away With It. Part Six: Politics and Promotion

The Night Trump’s Lights Went Out in Georgia

Research and New Reviews for Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. More on the Incredible American Scoundrel, Dan Sickles at Gettysburg tomorrow

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away With It. Part Five: War and Redemption

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away With It. The Story of the American Scoundrel, the Incredible Dan Sickles, Part Four: Pariahs

“We had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages” Hiroshima and After

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away with It, Part Three: Trial of the Century

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across From the White House and Got Away with it, Part Two: Murder in Lafayette Square

The Congressman Who Killed a Man Across from the White House and Got Away With It. The Story of the American Scoundrel, the Incredible Dan Sickles, Part One

Trump Just One Indictment Away from GOP Nomination

“Whom the gods intend to destroy, they first make mad” - The Dangerous Lunatic Asylum of Trump and His Cult as His Third Arraignment Looms

Indicted Again - Danger Ahead

Catching Up, Museums, Movies, and a Happy Rider

“The First Duty” Why I Wrote “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond

From Absurdity to Atrocity

Innovations of Death: The Minié Ball, the Rifled Musket, and the Repeating Rifle

Get Informed About American Racism, White and Christian Nationalism, Buy “Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond” at a Great Price

Is Tommy Tuberville Stupid or a Racist? It’s not Mutually Exclusive

How Did We Get Here? Supreme Court Decisions, MAGA, and the Continued Scourge of Inequity in the United States

The Complicated Lives of Those Who Return from War: Joshua and Fanny Chamberlain

Invite your friends to read Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal

The Most Glorious Fourth: July 4th 1863, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Renewal of the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal

The Human Cost of the Battle of Gettysburg and All War

Robert E. Lee and George Meade: A Study in Command and Leadership at Gettysburg on the Night of July 2nd, 1863

July 2nd at Gettysburg: Climax at the Peach Orchard and Plum Run

July 1st at Gettysburg, Heth vs. Buford: Arrogant Inexperience against Experience and Cunning Ability

A Fateful Decision

A Return to Plessy and another Rollback of Civil Rights

The Road to Gettysburg: Uncertainty and Change

A Wrong Turn, a Holy Cause, and Two Bullets

“This is Incredible… Bring Us Some Cokes”

The Prigozhin Putsch: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enema

Titanic and Titan: Two Tragedies bound by Hubris

The Necessity of Confronting Christian Nationalists: The Establishment Clause

Confront the threat of Theocratic Christian Nationalists with the Truth: Part One

“With Silent Tongue, the Clenched Teeth, the Steady Eye, the Well Poised Bayonet, They have Helped Mankind on to this Great Consummation”: Black Soldiers and Juneteenth

McCarthy to Cohn to Trump, and the Complicity of their Supporters

“You Rape Our Women and Are Taking over Our Country: You Have to Go.” The Mother Emanuel AME Church Massacre at 8 Years

A New Religion: the Noble Confederacy and the Lost Cause

A Poisoned Generation: Trump’s True Believers

Pat & Ted’s Bogus Journey

The Mob Determined the Theme: Trump is the GOP, the GOP is Trump

“Now we Have a Problem.” “Isn’t that Interesting?” The Trump Indictment

Hate is Never having to Say You’re Sorry

Final Finals, Target Trump, Smoking or not? LIV Free or Die, Damned Russians, and Remember D-Day

Five Minutes that Changed History. The Battle of Midway at 81 Years

“The slaying of a Negro in Mississippi is not news…” The Mississippi Burning Murders at 59. The past is never truly past

Memorial Day 2023: “The Loyal Soldiers who Imperiled all for Country and Freedom are One and Inseparable.”

“Targeting” Pride

MAGA Thinks They Are Free

Monday Medleys

Antisemitism is the Forerunner of Fascism: Edward R. Murrow’s Broadcast from Buchenwald

“Theirs is the Highest and Purest Democracy” Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn’s Dedication Sermon at Iwo Jima

“Most Evil is Done by People Who Never Make up their Minds to be Good or Evil”

A Man Characterized by Straightforward Truthfulness: General George Meade

The Price of Immortality: George Pickett, the Tragic Romanic Rebel

“I Enlisted to Fight,” Colonel Strong Vincent at Little Round Top

A Few Thoughts on Mother’s Day

Tuberville Admits It: Trump Republicans are White Nationalists

Robert Smalls, the Pilot of Freedom

Prayers to Moloch: No Prayers Can Wash Away the Blood of the Victims of Gun Violence

Free at Last… at Least for the Summer

Sundown. Rest In Peace Gordon Lightfoot

Legends at 90: Carol Burnett and Willie Nelson

The Liberation of Dachau, the Nazi Model Camp of Extrajudicial Terror and Heinous Medical Experiments

Happy Friday! An Eternity is an Awfully Long Time

The Apocalyptic Visions of MAGA and the Southern Confederacy

Exit Fox’s “Vulgar Vulgarian”

Addendum to Yesterday’s Post About Shipmates, Comrades and Wingmen

Shipmates, Comrades, and Wingmen

Something for Founding Members

Jackie Robinson, Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP Convention and the Beginning of MAGA

A Heart that Beat for Freedom Everywhere

The Modern Republican Belief in “Liberty for the Few, Slavery in every From - for the Mass”

The Promise and Tragedy of Appomattox

Our Democracy is Under Attack and Worth Fighting to Preserve and Improve

A New Beginning on Substack

Coming soon