Even though I am a historian, genealogy is not really my thing. Don’t get me wrong, I love finding out who my ancestors were but I’ve never really gotten into the hunt, even as things have gotten so much easier with the internet, Ancestry.com, and the like. My brother Drew, though, has gotten into it and found a lot of very interesting things. So I’m quite content to let him find it all and send it to me.

In the old Soviet Union an often-told joke went something like this: “The future is certain, it’s the past that’s unpredictable.” That’s because it was always changing. Unfavorable history would be scrubbed in an instant. 

In just the last few months, former President Donald Trump has been indicted four separate times for actions surrounding the election of 2020 and the events of January 6. So far, he has amassed 91 separate charges in both federal and state courts. With most of the charges, if not all, being of questionable legality, if not downright silly, it is obvious that this is an attempt by corrupt Democrats to destroy their political opposition. But this is not a first in American history such a campaign to legally punish political opposition has been waged. 

Do most conservatives even know what they believe? I don’t think they really do and I’m certain very few could articulate those beliefs in any meaningful way. In fact, I’m not sure 1-in-10 Americans can truly be considered authentic conservatives, the philosophy that originated with the American Revolution and was cemented by Thomas Jefferson. 

A man who is supporting Delbert Hosemann for Lt Governor, and is a backer of State Senator Jeremy England, threatened a Chris McDaniel supporter with physical violence:

Delbert Hosemann has continued to lie about his involvement with an abortion clinic in Jackson, the South Jackson Woman’s Clinic. He has maintained throughout the campaign that no abortions were performed at the clinic while he was Vice President and Director.

However, this evening I spoke with a lady, who wishes to remain anonymous, but told me that she was offered an abortion at the clinic in 1979, the very time frame of Delbert’s involvement.

I’ve known Chris McDaniel all of my life. He and I are both from Ellisville. Although he is a little older than me, we grew up together, went to the same schools, competed in the same church basketball league. He was a superstar at the game, by the way, and I … wasn’t. And my team always lost to his. 

One century ago, on August 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding’s life came to a sudden end. But over the course of the next 100 years, many Americans have come to see the 29^th President as one of the worst chief executives the nation has ever had. 

Why do candidates sling mud at their opponents? And worse, why do they repeatedly tell lies and falsehoods they know aren’t true? Just like their refusal to debate their opponents, mudslinging emanates from fear, a desperate attempt to hide the truth from the people. 

Such tactics, which honest voters detest, stem from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, a leftwing playbook that Alinsky actually dedicated to Lucifer. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” Alinsky advised. State Senator Chad McMahan seems to have read it.

A century ago, on August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding was lying in bed in a San Francisco hotel room recovering from what doctors suspected was a heart attack. The President had been traveling across much of the country since June in what was called a “Voyage of Understanding.” He had traveled as far as Alaska, the first President to visit America’s northernmost territory, and was making his way down the West Coast when he fell ill.