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Gang Legislation is about protecting our residents from criminal street gangs, it has nothing to with “racial profiling” as the ACLU would have you believe. Almost as quickly as the Senate Democrats in Washington State removed the 2/3rd’s requirement...
George Washington was born in Virginia's Westmoreland County on this day in 1732. When his father died in 1743, George moved to Mount Vernon to live with his half brother, later inheriting that estate. He learned surveying, worked in the frontier...
On this day in 1919 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified and enacted into law. One year later, on January 16th, 1920 it became illegal to produce, distribute or sell alcohol in the United States. The National...
Martin Luther King, Jr was born at Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1929. He was taught to read at home before going to school and advanced rapidly, skipping two grades and entering Morehouse College at age 15. The son of a Baptist minister, he was ordained...
Benedict Arnold was born at Norwich, Connecticut on this day in 1741. He was a strong leader and brilliant tactician in the Connecticut militia in the French and Indian War and early in the Revolution. However, he was frequently on the wrong end of various...
George Mason IV was born on his family's plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia Colony on this day in 1725. His father died in a ferryboat accident ten years later, George lived with an uncle with a library of 1500 volumes where he educated himself...
John Adams was born at Braintree, Massachusetts on this day in 1735, to what was already an old American family. Educated at Harvard, he briefly taught school before turning to law, and then to politics. Like his second cousin Sam Adams, he was heavily...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India on this day in 1869. From his early career in law to his assassination while preparing to pray in 1948 the Mahatma (Sanskrit for "great soul") preached nonviolence, and to the...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Fairfax, Va. – Today, by a margin of 58-39, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted in favor of an amendment offered by Senator John Thune to provide interstate recognition of right-to-carry permits. The amendment to S...
We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separate it by white in stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her... [Attributed to George Washington; however unconfirmed.] On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress proposed...
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