It was exactly this time last year that Ron Paul raised a record amount in a single day. It was known as a Money bomb or fundraising bomb. Paul managed to raise over 6 million dollars in just 24 hours. Quite an outstanding amount. The fundraising effort combined traditional and Internet fundraising as well as [...]
10 more days till Christmas and I thought I’d do another “This Day in Politics” 533 – Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. 1791 – The United States bill of rights… …becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. 1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory [...]
This is a special one because it was only last year, on December 14, that George W was almost hit in the head with a shoe. But the old boy is to quick! It’s a pretty funny video too.
In 1282 Llywelyn the Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales In 1799 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention. In 1917 Lithuania declares its independence from Russia. In 1931 The British Parliament enacts the Statute [...]
The pre-budget on Wednesday was probably more exciting than most I guess. It had a windfall tax on bankers’ bonuses – I’m sure this is just a sign of the times. There was also a pay freezes across the board for the public sector. Probably a good call. I doubt there are a lot of [...]
Sometimes it seems like half of my This Week in Politics is listing countries that have become independent of Britain, like in 1961, when Tangayika (a country I’ve never even heard of became independent. In 1861 during the American Civil War, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the United [...]
Didn’t go through a full list of “This Day in Politics” today but I thought I would mention that in 1984, the Bhopal Disaster happened. This is where a methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed almost 4000 people and injured several hundred thousand other Indians. It was reported [...]
