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Thomas Dixon Jr.
The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden- 1865-1900
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902

The most memorable book that I read in 2024 was written in 1902. In addition to being highly entertaining, I found it to be quite relevant to our cause today. This is, perhaps, rather peculiar considering that in addition to being well over a century old, The Leopard’s Spots is a work of fiction. But there is a great deal of truth in Thomas Dixon’s first novel. (more…)

President Ulysses S. Grant (image source: The White House website)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

The Fourteenth Amendment, Foreign Policy, & Commander-in-Chief Grant

With the South under the United States Army’s heel, the Radical Republicans turned the Civil Rights Act of 1866 into the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. This amendment has turned out to be a disaster, mainly due to its birthright citizenship clause, which gives anyone born in the United States citizenship regardless of his parents’ status or his race and national origin. (more…)