Center for Teaching the Rule of Law

09/21/2022

“I’m not switching horses, baby. This is it.”

Well, baby, that was it, until he did switch horses two days after he won the GOP primary.

Bolduc might have gotten away with his fairy tale about how “Trump won the election” in some ruby-red state like Alabama or Wyoming, but he must have figured out that stuff like that doesn’t play w…

09/20/2022

Heads of state of non-Commonwealrh countries were seated alphabetically by national name -- United States of America comes pretty far down the alphabet. Trump would have been seated in exactly the same place. Trump’s problem is when he attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral he wants to be the co**se.

Former President Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden by posting a photo showing world leaders sitting in the abbey, with Biden towards the back.

09/17/2021

Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon (23 April 1945 – 16 September 2019) was an Indonesian Sikh who occupied a variety of positions in Indonesian political life, including assistant to the Minister of...

09/15/2021

Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze, 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in...

09/15/2021

Every school child in the US knows that story of how Francis Scott Key penned the poem that eventually became the National Anthem. It is, surprisingly, one of the few tales of the early Republic...

09/15/2021

"Where was the American Revolution fought?" The question probably sounds as obvious and pointless as "who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" Except of course, that the answer to both questions is not as...

09/15/2021

The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the Sonderbundskrieg. The constitution, which was...

09/12/2021

The Staten Island Peace Conference was a brief informal diplomatic conference held between representatives of the British Crown and its rebellious North American colonies in the hope of bringing a...

09/09/2021

The General Charter of Jewish Liberties known as the Statute of Kalisz, and as the Kalisz Privilege, was issued by the Duke of Greater Poland Bolesław the Pious on September 8, 1264 in...

09/08/2021

The Guo Huaiyi rebellion (also spelled Kuo Huai-i Rebellion) was a peasant revolt by Chinese farmers against Dutch rule in Taiwan in 1652. Sparked by dissatisfaction with heavy Dutch taxation on them...

09/06/2021

Louisa Ann Swain (née Gardner; 1800 or 1801 – January 25, 1880) was the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie,...

09/06/2021

The First Continental Congress met briefly in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that would...