Friday, September 30, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Melville Passing
In Mardi: And A Voyage Thither he wrote:
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Negotiators Election
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Oscar II Accedes
A dozen squared years ago today, King Oscar II ascended the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Governor Løvenskiold
Løvenskiold was governor of Norway until his demise in 1856. He was a delegate at the Constitutional Convention at Eidsvold in 1814, said to be the most reactionary representative, even supposedly rejecting the principle of popular sovereignty.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Mencken 136
In November, the H.L. Mencken Club hosts its 2016 conference – November 4 through 5.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Brazilian Independence
194 years ago today, the future Emperor Dom Pedro I proclaimed the independence of Brazil.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Quote of the Month
Writes Dr. Paul E. Gottfried over at the American Thinker:
I won’t hide my own belief that there is a growing incompatibility between an increasingly expanding suffrage and the preservation of an established (in the traditional nineteenth-century sense) liberal constitutional order. A point has now been reached in which the government exists less and less to protect property, religious liberty, and an independent civil society. The state operates more and more to satisfy the appetites and internecine grievances of a mass electorate.
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