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America's dumbest war (no, not this one)

I wrote a book on the forgotten founding father Gouverneur Morris, who thought James Madison was "intoxicated by opium or wine" in his military efforts.

Fortune · Sep 13

No Second Amendment Right to Export Guns (Including to Haiti)

"John Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Rufus King, Albert Gallatin, Robert Morris, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Jonathan Trumbull, James Madison, Henry Clay, [and] John Quincy Adams ... knew a thing or two about the Constitution."

Reason · Aug 12

America Was Not Founded by 'Tariff Men,' Contrary to This Painting in Trump's White House

Free trade is "a direct affront to our Founding Fathers," President Donald Trump said during his first presidential campaign.

Reason · Jul 5

Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their party. This will mark the first time in over 50…

The Conversation · Jul 21, 2024

Biden pulls out of election: How rare is it for US presidents to withdraw?

Joe Biden is the first sitting president since 1968 to drop out of a US presidential race.

Al Jazeera · Jul 21, 2024

Lexington’s Ashland area hit hard by Tuesday morning storm

In Lexington, one of the areas hit hardest by the first round of high winds Tuesday morning was near Ashland, Henry Clay’s estate.

WEKU · Apr 2, 2024

The Fine Gardens of Jon Carloftis

Sam Dick traveled to Lexington to the special home of award-winning landscape designer Jon Carloftis

WEKU · Mar 15, 2024

Here’s the scary way Trump could win without the electoral or popular vote

In a ‘contingent election’, he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US president

The Guardian - US · Sep 18, 2023

Ashland is now home to an image of Henry Clay's enslaved valet Aaron Dupuy

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, is now home to a rare stereograph of the attorney and statemen’s enslaved valet. The transfer of Aaron Dupuy's picture from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center to the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation took place Monday.

WEKU · Jun 13, 2023

Political compromises – like the debt-limit deal – have never been substitutes for lasting solutions

The compromise to avoid default on the U.S. debt passed muster, eventually. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pulled it off.

The Conversation · Jun 6, 2023