Slavery

By all accounts, an Internet documentary named "Zeitgeist" was the favorite movie of accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner. Created in 2007 by New York-based Conspiracy merchant Peter Joseph, "Zeitgeist" is a two-hour mash-up of old and new Conspi…

It might have taken thousands of years, but we are as close to the full equality of the races, what was most likely God’s original intent, in modern America as anywhere in history.  There will always be Racist fringe groups, but in mode…

 The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to revise American history, cleaning it up so the Founding Fathers are not implicated in Slavery and Genocide. Indeed, the Tennessee Tea Party wants to pretend Slavery and genocide is not part and parcel of t…

When Sarah Palin shot back at critics who proposed that her severe -- and perhaps violence-suggesting -- Rhetoric and campaigning helped inspire Jared Lee Loughner's massacre in Tuscon, she accused those critics of blood Libel -- and started an …

Susan Schulten has another great piece up on the NYT's Civil War site. This time, she writes about the failed Crittenden Compromise, a last-ditch effort to avoid the Civil War by extending the border between slave and free states all the way to C…

Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Crittenden Compromise, Slavery, the civil war The New York TimesKentucky Sen. John Crittenden proposed this geographical “solution” to the s…

More proof Liberalism is a mental disorder. James Loewen in the Washington Post: “[T]wo ideological factors caused most Southern whites, including those who were not slave-owners, to defend Slavery. First, Americans are wondrous optimis…