According to news reports, Pakistani autocrat Pervez Musharraf has decided to resign rather than face impeachment by the Pakistani parliament. A nice touch that. Makes wonder how history might be different if a few other tyrants had taken a bow rather than making a stand for their own power.
Back in November of 2007, Musharraf […]

Okay, kids. This is a pop quiz on current affairs. I’ll give you the basic facts and you tell me where it’s happening.
A culture war is rapidly heating up. Ordinary citizens have become increasingly concerned about the cost of illegal immigration, the rise of the welfare state, and multiculturalism enforced by liberal elites.
Things have gotten […]

It is my desire that the dwelling house on Fort Hill shall never be torn down or altered, but kept in repair, with all articles of furniture and vesture which I herein after give for that purpose, and shall always be open for the inspection of visitors.
—LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THOMAS GREEN CLEMSON

In 1825, […]