Category — For The Record

One of the "Essential Documents" featured in The Patriot's History Reader, is President Jackson's veto message. Jackson's words are perhaps more applicable to today than for his own time.   Read the rest of this entry »

The limit of executive power under the Constitution and the prerogatives of the states in a federal system were vexing in 1832 and have continued to be so. John C. Calhoun's arguments regarding nullification resonate today.   Read the rest of this entry »

Last week we had a look at a British account of the single ship action between the HMS Shannon and the USN Chesapeake. This week, we'll have a look at the American perspective on the loss of the USN Chesapeake.   Read the rest of this entry »

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.  Winston Churchill

It’s time for Republicans to put their pants on.  When 47% of Americans “somewhat approve of Obama’s handling of the …

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In June, 198 years ago, the Shannon captured the Chesapeake outside of Boston Harbor. The events described in this clipping from the Niles Weekly Register correspond almost exactly to the story told by Patrick O'Brian in his book, The Fortune of War.   Read the rest of this entry »

The Pinckney's of South Carolina contributed a lot to the founding of the United States. Thomas Pinckney was an ardent patriot during the American Revolution, a state governor, a member of Congress and returned to military service in the War of 1812.   Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama remains unable to conceal the conflict between his political ideology and that of the Founders.   Read the rest of this entry »

Calvin Coolidge deserves a good deal more attention. Strangely, he is not much more than a footnote in most history textbooks. He exists in the education system as a kind of witless boob Neanderthal relic of the pre-Depression 20’s. Progressives can’t refute his argument, so they seek to shut Silent Cal up instead.   Read the rest of this entry »

If "men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." This is the choice we have before us and what we might profit from contemplating on this 4th of July.   Read the rest of this entry »

As with many other precedents, George Washington set the custom of serving no more than 2 terms as president. Up until FDR, all of his successors adhered to this tradition. After FDR, the 22nd Amendment was passed by congress to …

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