Today is America’s 239th birthday, and they said it couldn’t last. I am glad I don’t have to blow out the candles. We owe a lot to our forebears. We […]

Slavery was a contentious issue in the early days of the Republic. First came the issue of the slave trade and the possible expansion of slavery into the territories. There […]

More than two centuries have past since that fateful year, 1776, when America and it’s thirteen colonies declared their independence from England on July the 4th. A lot of Americans […]