Yesterday was Bastille Day, the day the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille. This act began the French Revolution.
You would think that this would be common knowledge, but apparently Americans are not as adept at French history as I expect them to be. We, the people, tend to expect every other country [...]

89 years ago today the 19th amendment was passed, granting full voting rights to women in the United States of America.  The struggle for this right was long, beginning in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention held by the suffrage movement.  Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Caty Stanton (among [...]

We have finally done it.  We have taken back the White House.  The era of Bush/Cheney is coming to a close and a new path will be pursued.  There is great hope and pride on this historic morning and we need to be sure that this feeling carries us through into the new administration.  I [...]