Celebrating Memorial Day is Remembering What It Really Means

“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” — James A. Garfield, Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1868 Right to Bear Arms: Lexington & Concord, Patriots’ Defense Guest Essay by Bill Federer The sun never set on the British Empire. It was the largest […]
Californios and American Union

By Ron Kirk According to the book The Making of American California based in original source documents and the first hand witness of Richard Henry Dana Jr. in Two Years before the Mast, it is true enough that Mexico and the U.S. represented two very different views of government, and both existed uncomfortably together in […]


















