On February 3, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution is sworn in. It prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (i.e., slavery). This a pretty cool thing… Section 1. The right [...]
It’s Groundhog Day and, again, this might not be about politics but who really wants to hear about national debt and all that kind of boring stuff. Instead let’s talk about Groundhog Day. It’s celebrated every 2nd of February in Canada and the United States – they even made a movie about it with Bill [...]
This isn’t exactly political in nature but it did happen on this day in 2003. It was the second Space Shuttle Disaster and the first shuttle lost on landing. There was shock around the world over the tragedy. Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on January 16th, 2003 at 9.39am. Columbia was on a 16-day science [...]
