While The Cat’s Away . . . In Brazil

The Etymology of States Rights

In 1980, former California Governor Ronald Reagan traveled to Philadelphia, Mississippi to announce his candidacy for the United States presidency. Philadelphia, Miss. was notorious nationwide as the site of the infamous murders of 3 civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. Reagan’s signal was unmistakeable. During his announcement speech, Reagan, using sunny [...]

The Tuskeegee Experiment

Taliaferro Clark, Head of U.S. Public Health Service, pictured.“For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease [...]

Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson

“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The almighty has no [...]