Execution of the Lincoln conspirators, 1865
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Lincoln was the third American president to die in office, and the first to be murdered.An unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson 30 years prior, in 1835, and Lincoln had himself been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt by an unknown assailant in August 1864. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause.
Booth’s co-conspirators were Lewis Powell and David Herold, who were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt, who was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to disrupt the United States government.
In the turmoil that followed the assassination, scores of suspected accomplices were arrested and thrown into prison. Anyone discovered…
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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US President Abraham Lincoln was the third American president to die in office , and the first of four presidents to be assassinated. The other three were James Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901) and John F. Kennedy (1963). Lincoln’s death came in the closing days of the American Civil War, and a day after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor.
Booth was the 9th of 10 children born to the actor Junius Brutus Booth. John Wilkes Booth was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of Lincoln.
The original plan of Booth and his small group of conspirators was to kidnap Lincoln, and they later agreed to murder him as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.
On the morning of April 14, 1865, Booth had found out that Abraham Lincoln was going to to attend an…
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Climate Change Is NOT An Emergency
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in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Well said, Popper
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Foster mom cat with many kittens is grooming her kittens and purring loudly
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The Toledo War: When Ohio and Michigan Went to War and Wisconsin Lost
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The Social Contagion Of Mental Disorders
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in economics of education, health economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of mental illness, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Democrat’s Green New Deal: Part Energy Fantasy/Part Economic Suicide Pact
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Hubris and arrogance are essential character traits for those pretending that we’re well on our way to an all-wind and sun-powered future. Helpfully, the terrible events unfolding in Ukraine have exposed that whopping lie, for all to see.
Energy self-reliance is back on the agenda, with a vengeance, and that means fossil fuels and nuclear power are back in vogue, like long-lost relatives.
But, not for want of trying, the Democrats and their senile leader would have Americans believe that all is well with their Great Green Reset aka the Green New Deal.
Jerry Shenk retorts in fine style, below.
Sow the wind (power), reap the whirlwind
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Jerry Shenk
14 March 2022
The Law of Supply and Demand is as consistent as gravity.
Americans who understand the benefits of ample supply — seventy percent — favor producing more domestic oil and gas.
Nonetheless, President(ish) Joe Biden, his administration…
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Israel 1983: A bout of unpleasant monetarist arithmetic
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in applied price theory, budget deficits, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: hyperinflation
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Steven Pinker | Rubin Report
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