HistoryExtra, from the BBC, tries to tackle the meaning of cat got your tongue: “Attempts to get to the bottom of this phrase have left many speechless, to which we must ask: what’s the matter, cat got your tongue? Here’s the origin and meaning of this moggy musing…”
History
History, Music
Monday Music: U.S. Marine Band, Sousa’s Deep Cuts: Wisconsin Forward Forever
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America, History, Politics, U.S. Senate
The Filibuster: How one small rule change in 1806 started it all
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Alt-Right, America, Authoritarianism, Congress, Herrenvolk, History, Law, Mendacity, Trump, Trumpism
Confederates, Copperheads, and Conservatives
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It’s an understatement to say that a democratic society that endures a violent mob seizing its capitol building is a society in distress. We find ourselves in the twenty-first century facing movements as malevolent and mendacious as the nineteenth century’s Confederates and Copperheads. Karen L. Cox writes What Trump Shares With the ‘Lost Cause’ of the…
America, Elections, History, Law, Liberty, Never Trump, Presidential race 2020, Resistance, Trump, Victory
2020: ‘But Not Just That’
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Tim Miller – who is always worth reading, writes of 2020 as The Worst. But Not Just That. These paragraphs resonate: Most importantly, 2020 will always be the year that we joined together and toppled the greatest threat that our fragile union has faced in many decades. Turning out more people to vote against the president-strongman…
America, Cats, History, Military
Friday Catblogging: Heroic Military Cats
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Jackie Mead writes of 6 Heroic Military Cats. Among those admirable felines was the U.S. Navy tabby Princess Papule: Striped tabby Princess Papule was born on July 4, 1944, at the Pearl Harbor Navy Base in Hawaii. Pooli, as she was known to the sailors, was brought aboard the attack transport USS Fremont by crewman James Lynch.…
America, History, Holiday
Pres. Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863
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The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not…
America, Elections, History, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Voting by Mail
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America, History, Military, Trump, Unfit, Veterans
VoteVets.org: Pvt. Dan Crowley, Aged 98
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America, Culture, Documentary, Film, History, Race
A Black Cowboy’s Story
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Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed…
America, Elections, History, Politics
The Convention Bounce
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America, Equality, History, John Lewis, Justice, Law, Liberty, Race
Wake up!
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America, Coronavirus, History, Public Health, Trump
America Behind the World
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Paul Waldman looks at covid-19 cases from Monday, 7.13.20: Let’s begin with the situation in other countries. Here are new case totals from Monday for a few of our peer countries: France: 580 UK: 564 Spain: 546 Germany: 365 Canada: 299 Japan: 259 Italy: 200 Australia: 158 South Korea: 52 And the United States? 55,300.…