Millennial History

By Steve Jackson

Millenial History Blog

A Founder for Us All

Though rarely honored these days exactly on February 22, his actual birth date, “President’s Day “ is actually Washington’s official birthday. And that’s entirely right

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And Justice for All?

 It took four years and nine months before Nikolas Cruz was finally sentenced for the murder of 17 people in the horrific Parkland, Florida massacre.

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WOKE Canceled

In his victory speech after winning a second gubernatorial term in November, Republican Ron De Santis proclaimed his state of Florida is where “ woke

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Final Jeopardy?

Answer: 434 federal agencies. Question: What is killing democracy in America?      I used to laugh at the “democratic “ elections in the now-defunct

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US Lifestyle at Risk

President Biden insists he won’t negotiate a deal to limit future government spending in exchange for hiking the debt limit. But Biden’s out of touch.

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Black History Month

 On January 31, 1865, the US House of Representatives passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States. In 1864, an

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Recycling Myths?

This blog is largely a reprint of an article written by long-time libertarian and contrarian consumer advocate John Stossel who has hosted the TV show

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The Pineapple State

On January 17, 1893, a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole, the founder of the Dole Pineapple Corporation, overthrew the Hawaiian

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WOKE MD’s

New York University fired Maitland Jones Jr. because his organic chemistry course was “too hard” for his students. The man wrote the textbook on the

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Big Brother IRS

Most of the following blog is courtesy of the Epoch Times newspaper, a reliable source for factual information largely dealing with current events with historical

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Tom – Foolery

Talk about ingratitude. Students at the University of Virginia have become the latest young Americans to try to saw off the branch that they are

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Stop the Brainwashing

Crazy theories are destroying our schools. Classroom “safe spaces” are nothing more than indoctrination centers.”Race matching “—on the preposterous notion that students of color require

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Transgendered Innocents

Recent events at the Boston Children’s Hospital reveal the yawning gulf between the values of ordinary American parents and the decadent beliefs of a venal

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The New Population Bomb

 During my college years, everyone was worried about the”population explosion”. Paul Ehrlich’s book,” The Population Bomb” was gospel and a runaway bestseller. This premise led

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Climate Lies

The Inflation Reduction Act invests 369 billion dollars to take the most aggressive action ever, ever, ever to confront the climate crisis and strengthen our

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Educational Warfare

As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have to make decisions about their kids’ education that will not only put

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Trust Deficit

      Why don’t Americans trust the government and other institutions? Maybe it’s because the government and other institutions aren’t trustworthy. There’s certainly plenty

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Opting Out

“Suppose they gave a war and nobody came” That was a slogan of the 1960’s anti-war movement. Now it’s becoming a reality, at least for

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Enviro Fish Tale

This blog is credited to Humberto Fontova, an author and serious outdoorsman from New Orleans.The main idea to be gleaned from this essay is that

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Juneteenth

Most of this blog is courtesy of Deroy Murdock, a columnist I read regularly in the New York Post. He provides some background to the

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Stagflation Returns

  During the Carter Presidency in the 1970’s, we saw both runaway inflation and stagflation. Normally inflation occurs with a booming economy and low unemployment

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The Holy Devil

The Russian nation had been governed by a long series of tsarist dynasties stretching back hundreds of years with the final dynasty, the House of

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Wrong-Way Corrigan

Douglas Corrigan(1907-1995) was an American aviator nicknamed “Wrong Way” in1938. After a transcontinental flight in July from Long Beach, California to New York City, he

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Freemasons

Did you ever closely examine the reverse side of the dollar bill or discern the architectural layout of our nation’s national capital, Washington, DC? It

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The Blob

The Blob is a 1958 American science fiction horror film that has become an iconic classic starring Steve McQueen in his first feature film leading

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Buffalo Soldiers

The Buffalo soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the Civil War. In 1866, six all-Black cavalry and infantry

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Nuclear Accidents

Nuclear power was widely viewed as an alternative to the use of fossil fuels that created a lot of pollution around the earth especially in

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Abuses of Capitalism

For many decades in America, free enterprise capitalism was encouraged and grew without constraints. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed that ” the business of America …is

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Urbanization

 This topic was shortchanged in my book so let’s go on a tour of the cities throughout America from the olden days to the present

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The Big Ditch

The Erie Canal located in upstate NY was begun in 1817 and completed in 1825. It began near the Hudson River and terminated at the

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