Jack Lewis

The SA (Sturmabteilung or as we know them today “Brown Shirts”) was founded in Munich by Adolph Hitler in 1921 out of various roughneck elements that had attached themselves to the fledgling Nazi movement. It drew its early membership largely...

If you remember in 2006 I provided a blog widget for people who wanted to note the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I've revamped the coding to allow for larger bandwidth and have a new widget ready for...

  May 11th, 1996 It was almost 90º, and in the humidity typical of Florida, that's even worse than it normally would feel. It was May 11th, 1996 and Domingo Pacheco was racing to the airport to catch a plane,...

  May 10th, 1994 Former President George H.W. Bush's office released his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association. The letter expressed Bush's outrage over the NRA's reference to federal agents as ''jackbooted government thugs.'' Jack boots are the...

  May 5, 1924 The ACLU didn't like Tennessee's law against teaching the theory of Evolution, so they went “chumming” for someone who'd be willing to break the law for them. They put ads in some Tennessee newspapers saying they'd...

  May 4, 1626 Barely holding their laughter at the gullibility of these pale-skinned travelers from across the ocean, nomadic Native Americans sell a worthless island to Dutch explorer Peter Minuit for $24 in cloth and buttons. To the Natives...

  May 3, 1942 “In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they...