This took an incredibly long time to write due to other circumstances, but it will also be nice to reminiense. When we talked to Mike and Erin before the trip, almost everything I said related to Magic Kingdom. I wanted to see and ride everything I saw on TV as a kid. I wanted to …
Month: June 2017
My Country – John Peter Altgeld On June 26, 1893, Governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned three men convicted in the Haymarket Square bombings. Chicago Labor Movement In 1886, Chicago suffered from poor working conditions. A movement began to introduce an eight-hour work day, which we all take for granted today. Although state and federal law …
My Country – Poor Laws Justice Douglas spends today’s entry examining a North Dakota Supreme Court case regarding Roy Hulm. Roy Hulm lived in South Dakota with his wife and ten children. However, Hulm was paralyzed and unable to do hard labor (ed. note: Based on feedback from the Hulm family, Roy suffered injuries that …
When the Russian interference first became apparent about a year ago, people called it politics. People continue to say it’s Democrats crying over losing. But people need to step back from their partisanship harnesses and look at the facts. The Washington Post has published an 8,000-word story about how the Obama White House mishandled the …