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James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana react to the “God Made Trump” video and the trend of comparing Donald Trump to Jesus or other biblical figures ,and consider whether what we are seeing is normal politics, a religious movement, or something else altogether (1:31). The guys also discuss plastistones, the newly discovered sedimentary rock that is being seen around the world and is based in part on our plastic waste (45:15). Trump shares bizarre biblical video saying God made him to be America's ‘caretaker' (The Independent)The Deification of Donald Trump Poses Some Interesting Questions (NY Times)Experts alarmed after Trump demands immunity to do “infinite crimes” in 2 am Truth Social rant (Salon)A New Study Shows Us the Single Biggest Motivation for the Jan. 6 Rioters | Amanpour and Company (YouTube)Republican senator says 'democracy isn't the objective' of US system (The Guardian)A Strange Plastic Rock Has Ominously Invaded 5 Continents (Popular Mechanics)
SEASON 2 EPISODE 98: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: You and I have 305 days until the election and the GOOD news is: if the Supreme Court rules Trump is immune from prosecution for anything he did while president OR if the Supreme Court rules the 14th Amendment DOESN'T disqualify him from the ballot OR if the Supreme Court rules both… Joe Biden can declare himself president for life, he can arrest the Supreme Court, and he can detain Trump without charges or trial and the Supreme Court has just ruled there's not a goddamned thing anybody can do about it, including them. Well thank god THAT'S settled. Happy New Year! I am mystified by the sanctimonious criticisms of Maine striking Trump from the ballot from its Senator Angus King and "Democratic" Congressman Jared Golden. They have decided the Constitution wasn't enough and decided on their own that we needed HIGHER BARRIERS before as a nation we could defend ourselves against a psychotic dictator-in-waiting who wants to turn the government into a personal revenge factory and oh by the way the only thing he's going to remember about YOU Angus King, is that you voted to impeach him. “Under the established Constitutional process," said Senator King from atop his high horse, "absent a final judicial determination of a violation of the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause, I believe the decision as to whether or not Trump should rest with the people as expressed in free and fair elections. This is the ultimate check within our Constitutional system,” This isn't a matter of interpretation for the courts, or for you, Senator King. It's what the 14thAmendment SAYS as opposed to what a fragment of your voters want you to tell them it says. What it SAYS is, your Senate AND the House have a right to REMOVE the disqualification of Donald Trump by a two-thirds vote. It exists. It exists right now. It only STOPS existing if you OVERRIDE IT. By 75 to 25, thank you. That's what it says. THAT is the ultimate check within our Constitutional System. I hope you can hear me up there floating on that cloud above it all. Speaking of, congratulations to The New York Times, which addresses disqualification by quoting Judge Michael Luttig, and balancing him with someone who wrote commercial scripts for Dunkin' Donuts and an L.A. democrat who went on Fox to say he's mad at Joe Biden. And congratulations to The Washington Post for buying out the only one of its reporters who got it - Greg Sargent. But genuine thinks to Green Day, which did what the rest of us can almost never do - pierce the MAGA/Trump Cult/Fascist bubble and show its cultists, to their shock, that they are not a majority and not at all liked. It's shocking that such penetrations come during Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve - but it's worth singing about! B-Block (27:45) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: She allegedly liquored up underaged teenagers at her daughter's 17th birthday party. Is she A) a drag queen B) a trans-gendered swimmer C) a librarian or D) the founder of the “Keeping Kids In School PAC” and former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor?; The right-wing pundit who boasts of how The Statue of Liberty is better than any European art; The passing of Tom Foty. (35:25) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Fox kills the wrong Frank Thomas. Aaron Rodgers has now descended into using antisemitic tropes. And Michael Flynn Jr. sticks his father with a new name: "General Flynn-Bitch." C-Block (41:55) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: We're now in the 25th anniversary year of the night - before Game 1 of the World Series which I was covering for Fox - where an Atlanta hotel gave me a room next to a choir that spent the entire night practicing for a competition the next day. It then tried to make it up to me by offering me, instead...THE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 27: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Uh-oh. Somebody told Trump about the 14th Amendment and he's terrified And we know who terrified him. The Wall Street Journal published a 900-word editorial exactly 77 minutes before Trump's post and it is aptly titled “The 14th Amendment Trump Panic” because while the Journal usually has the confidence and arrogance and factuality of Marie Antoinette apocryphally talking about dessert, this time the lead fascists Chez Murdoch sound really scared. They have resorted to the argument that even if the 14thAmendment doesn't JUST apply to people who literally fired a gun at the flag or those who instructed them to, it can't apply to January 6th because January 6th wasn't a REAL insurrection because… uh… it didn't SUCCEED. 14-3 advocates are quote “willing to put democracy at risk in order to save it. But U-S institutions held up reasonably well despite the strains of the Trump Presidency, even the events of January 6. The transfer of power took place on schedule…the rioters and organizers are being punished, often severely…” In other words: whaddya mean ATTEMPTED murder? What kind of crime is THAT? Either there's murder, and you go to jail, or there isn't murder, and you go free. Am I right? Trump bleated about socialists and democrats and election interference and who will get to tell him? The Disqualification clause was in essence created to keep the Vice President of the confederacy out of the Senate. After he won. As a DEMOCRAT. In 1866. And Alexander Stephens had been convicted of NOTHING. He was arrested for treason on May 11th, 1865, released from prison in October without even going to trial. In 1919, 14/3 was used to keep a Congressman-Elect, Victor Berger of Wisconsin – literally an actual member of the Socialist party – out of the House because he had been convicted of violating the Espionage Act during the 1st World War because he opposed U-S entry into it. And just last year local New Mexico official Cuoy Griffin was bounced by 14/3 after nothing more than a misdemeanor conviction for trespassing. The point of course is that Stephens was kept out even though he was never convicted of anything, never even TRIED for anything, and he was readmitted only after a Congressionally-approved amnesty. Trump doesn't understand these nuances but like the wild animal he is he can smell fear, and there's nothing but fear in the WSJ editorial. Press the point. Plus we knew Mark Meadows had confessed to the Georgia judge last week while trying to get his trial moved to Federal Court. We had no idea how MUCH he had confessed, and how screwed he is, and how his only option may be to cut a deal with Fani Willis. B-Block (20:27) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: All is finally well at CNN where the new guy starts in one month and four days and controversy is a thing of the past and what do you mean at the BBC he once leaned over to a news editor and BIT HIM ON THE ARM HARD ENOUGH TO LEAVE MARKS THROUGH HIS SHIRT? (26:26) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Matt Schlapp conducts an exorcism...in his PANTS! The Philadelphia cemetery that has a memorial to...Nazi collaborators? And segueing perfectly: After pimping for the hashtag "Ban The ADL," Elon Musk insists he's opposed to all forms of anti-semitism and then explains that the main Jewish organization fighting anti-semitism, The Anti-Defamation League, has conspired to destroy advertising on twitter and he's suing them and if Musk ain't an antisemite it's an incredible simulation. C-Block (33:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The school year has begun at every level and inevitably I flash back to the day my legendary Cornell American history professor nearly failed all of us in his class because his favorite football team lost.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's March 16th. In 1861, Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, delivered a speech that came to be known as the “cornerstone speech.” Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how Stephens's remarks left little doubt about the centrality of slavery in the Confederacy's desire to secede — even though the role of slavery in causing the Civil War continued to be contested for decades. Sign up for our newsletter! Find out more at thisdaypod.com And don't forget about Oprahdemics, hosted by Kellie, coming soon from Radiotopia. This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro and Audrey Mardavich, Executive Producers at Radiotopia
Raising your kids to follow in your footsteps has been a thing since the dawn of time and so has rebelling against it. Jocks want to see their kids do well in sports, the local butcher wants to see their kid take over the family business, etc. But when you're a geek, its our interest we want to share with our offspring. Movies, TV shows, video games, Sci-fi, fantasy, Legos! This month Shaun, Kristen and Eugene are joined by their kids and discuss the things that were hits, the misses and the differences in raising kids in an all digital age.Host: Eugene StephensGuests: Kris Andrew, Shaun McLaren, Nicholas Stephens, Alexander Stephens, Kathryn McLaren, Logan Andrew, Quinn AndrewLike the show? Do us a favor and rate / review the show on iTunes, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts from.You can always reach us at EpicallyGeeky.comYou can also find us on FaceBook, Twitter and Instagram.You can find us on iTunes here: http://apple.co/21VHYPsYou can find us on Stitcher here: http://bit.ly/1Y2Q0XhYou can find us on Google Podcast here: http://bit.ly/3nOSqbdYou can find us on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/2PL1oWUYou can find us on Amazon Podcast here: https://amzn.to/2FKWys3You can find us on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/3abhbXOMusic by: Peter Emerson Jazz
The career of Alexander Stephens followed the career of the American South as it became the CSA, then returned to the Union.
The career of Alexander Stephens followed the career of the American South as it became the CSA, then returned to the Union.
The career of Alexander Stephens followed the career of the American South as it became the CSA, then returned to the Union.
Want to hear the concerns and motivations of prominent Southerners in the months leading to Fort Sumter? Come listen! Join Owen in listening to the secession speeches of Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens.
Since the earliest days of the Bay Colony, prisoners of war have been held on the islands of Boston Harbor. This week, we're sharing two classic stories of the Harbor Islands POWs from past episodes. One of them is about the Confederate prisoners who arrived at Fort Warren on Georges Island in the fall of 1861, fresh from the field of battle in North Carolina. They'd be joined by Maryland politicians who supported secession, the supposed diplomats Mason and Slidell, and eventually even Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens, who didn't seem to much appreciate Boston hospitality. 81 years later and a mile away on Peddocks Island, a group of unruly Italian prisoners were confined at Fort Andrews after starting what may have been the only soccer riot in Boston history at a South Boston prison camp. Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/231/ Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Confederate soldiers never reached the US Capitol during the Civil War, but the "Confederate flag" (which was actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) finally arrived in the building on January 6. Join us for a deep dive into the question: why does that symbol still speak to people so long after the Civil War? The answers lie in another disinformation campaign — one that took root in this country 155 years ago, and still impacts us today. This time on the podcast: America's original Lost Cause — and the real cost of alternative facts. Cover art: A printed poster from 1896 celebrates the Confederacy more than 30 years after the end of the Civil War. It features (center) Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson, PGT Beauregard and Robert E. Lee along with three versions of the flag of the Confederate States of America and the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. Surrounding them are Confederate notables including President of the Confederate State of America, Jefferson Davis, Vice President Alexander Stephens, and storied army officers James Longstreet and A.P. Hill. For photos and resources, visit our website: anewnormalpodcast.comTheme music: Fragilistic by Ketsa; licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0Much of the music in this episode was from the Free Music Archive by:Lobo Loco (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco) CC BY-NC-SA Cletus Got Shot (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cletus_Got_Shot) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Shake that Little Foot (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Shake_That_Little_Foot) CC BY-NC-SA 3.0The Joy Drops (https://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=the+joy+drops)CC BY
TAH.org partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to present this special webinar about the role of religion and the American church in reform movements. This episode focused on the role of religion in the pre-Civil War abolition movement. The program consisted of a conversation between Dr. Jeff Sikkenga, Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and professor of Political Science at Ashland University, and Dr. Dan Monroe, of Millikin University. Suggested Readings: American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, William Lloyd Garrison, 6 DEC 1833 The American Union, William Lloyd Garrison, 10 JAN 1845 American Slavery, Frederick Douglass, 22 OCT 1847 "Cornerstone" Speech, Alexander Stephens, 21 MAR 1861
TAH.org partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to present this special webinar about the role of religion and the American church in reform movements. This episode focused on the role of religion in the pre-Civil War abolition movement. The program consisted of a conversation between Dr. Jeff Sikkenga, Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and professor of Political Science at Ashland University, and Dr. Dan Monroe, of Millikin University. Suggested Readings: American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, William Lloyd Garrison, 6 DEC 1833 The American Union, William Lloyd Garrison, 10 JAN 1845 American Slavery, Frederick Douglass, 22 OCT 1847 "Cornerstone" Speech, Alexander Stephens, 21 MAR 1861
Our archive of TAH.org's 3 October 2020 webinar, featuring a discussion of the true causes of the Civil War – was it really all about slavery, or something else? Suggested Readings: Fort Hill Address, John C. Calhoun, 26 July 1831 The Constitution of the United States: Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?, Frederick Douglass, 26 MAR 1860 South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Secession, 24 DEC 1860 Mississippi Declaration of Secession, 9 JAN 1861 First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 4 MAR 1861 “Cornerstone” Speech, Alexander Stephens, 12 MAR 1861 Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 4 MAR 1865
Our archive of TAH.org's 3 October 2020 webinar, featuring a discussion of the true causes of the Civil War – was it really all about slavery, or something else? Suggested Readings: Fort Hill Address, John C. Calhoun, 26 July 1831 The Constitution of the United States: Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?, Frederick Douglass, 26 MAR 1860 South Carolina's Declaration of the Causes of Secession, 24 DEC 1860 Mississippi Declaration of Secession, 9 JAN 1861 First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 4 MAR 1861 “Cornerstone” Speech, Alexander Stephens, 12 MAR 1861 Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 4 MAR 1865
Date: May 10, 2011 Speaker: Tom Schott Topic: Alexander Stephens and Jefferson Davis: a Marriage Made in Hell” - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
We have seen efforts to remove Confederate items from places of honor pick up in recent times, and James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the armed protest of a Confederate monument in Georgia on July 4th (01:24), including whether the images of armed protestors could be used to undermine the message of the protestors (17:10). The guys also discuss whether naked appeals to a “Confederate heritage” can still be politically viable in the U.S. (24:52) and the apparent attempts to reduce the issue to a partisan one (29:56).
In this episode I look at the final year of the war as it releats to the Home Front. I examine the various moves that President Davis made hoping that the war would end in victory for the south. I talk about the various peace movements breaking out in the South and finally I show the end result as Richmond falls in April of 1865.
In this episode I look at the Confederate Home Front and all the discontent that happened during the war from beginning to end. Many in the South felt that they were fighting a rich mans war and a poor mans fight. I look at conscription, desertion, riots and various acts of violence that plagued the Confederacy throughout the war.
Migrant detention at the US border is not new. While it’s become common in 2020 to hear of the incarceration of men, women, and children at the border attached to the current administration, these policies have been in development for the past 40 years. Over time we’ve seen the shifting legal, political and cultural definitions for people who arrive from Central America and Cuba. We’ve seen the transformation of the asylum seeker to criminal, begging the question: is “prison” a more suitable term? Alexander Stephens and Gerson Rosales didn’t expect for their research to align quite so closely. One works on the arrival of Cubans on the Mariel boatlift, the other on Salvadoran migration. But when they both stumbled across the same detention center in a surprising place, they sat down together to talk about these intertwined histories, from one small-town detention center to the largest system of immigrant prisons in the world.
A few days late because of the holiday week, “Lucretia,” Power Line's international woman of mystery, joins Steve Hayward once again to resume their series critiquing the “1619 Project,” this time taking up the examples of Alexander Stephens, Booker T. Washington, and W.E. B DuBois, among other thinkers, as well as noting the peculiar objections to the 1619 Project coming from . Source
Senta Scarborough was nominated for an Emmy®️ for her production work at E! News for a piece about Joan Rivers. Whether it's producing for E! News, being a crime reporter in Arizona, or writing screenplays about Al Capone in Appalachia, storytelling is in Senta's bones. You're not going to want to miss this week's podcast — our 50th episode!! Meet Storytelling Expert Senta Scarborough Senta Scarborough is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. She is the founder of Sentamatic Media focusing primarily on screenwriting, journalism and non-fiction projects. Her work has appeared in Adweek, Into, USA Today, E! News, US Weekly Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, among others. She currently serves on the board of directors for the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist’s Association. Senta holds her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California Riverside/Palm Desert. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, Katie, and their dog, Sadie. You can reach Senta via her website, Sentamatic Media: https://sentamaticmedia.com/ Find Senta on social media Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sentascar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sentascar/ Senta's Online Screenwriting Classes: https://www.penandpaperwritingworkshops.com/products?category=Screenwriting Equity Corner: Slavery is a thing. In fact, it's THE THING that caused the Civil War Don't let anyone tell you the Civil War was a 'states' rights' issue. The Civil War was fought over slavery. Period. Any other explanation is a whitewashing of the facts. Here's a quote from Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy: “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.” - Alexander Stephens, The Corner-Stone Speech, 1861 (https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/11/slavery-was-the-corner-stone-civil-war-primary-documents/) This disgusting speech leaves little doubt that the Civil War was about slavery, first and foremost. We've got some work to do. As Senta said, schools teach it as a states' rights issue. And unfortunately, it's working. According to the Pew Research Center, more people think the main cause of the Civil War is states' rights - 48% - rather than slavery - 38%. (http://www.people-press.org/2011/04/08/civil-war-at-150-still-relevant-still-divisive/) More Civil War facts: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-facts
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 27-31, 2018 Topics: Fake History, Political Correctness, Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, the War Host: Brion McClanahan www.brionmcclanahan.com
Welcome to our very first episode of Primary!The Civil War: you've heard OF it, but let's hear from someone who actually lived it. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens has opinions on infrastructure, presidential term lengths, and, oh yeah, slavery, and he is very excited to tell you all about them. But only after you quiet down. Erin and Vinnie take Alexander Stephens at his word to understand the REAL issues that lead to the secession of eleven states and caused the Civil War. Erin also answers the question 'Just what IS a primary source?'
Welcome to our very first episode of Primary! The Civil War: you've heard OF it, but let's hear from someone who actually lived it. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens has opinions on infrastructure, presidential term lengths, and, oh yeah, slavery, and he is very excited to tell you all about them. But only after you quiet down. Erin and Vinnie take Alexander Stephens at his word to understand the REAL issues that lead to the secession of eleven states and caused the Civil War. Erin also answers the question 'Just what IS a primary source?'
Erin reads the whole of the "Corner Stone" speech. It took much longer than she expected but it was just as whack.
When a large number of states had seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln, they quickly realized they needed to band together in a larger government. So delegates from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas met in Montgomery, Alabama, they knew they had to work fast. Although they were working a month before Lincoln's inauguration, they wanted to make sure they were ready to go. They had two advantages in working quickly, namely that they knew the United States Constitution well and that they were united on the issue of protecting slavery. Therefore, the provisional government could be formed almost immediately, with Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice President. It would be Stephens, in a speech one month later, who would clearly elucidate the reason for forming a government, that they were built on the "cornerstone" of white supremacy and the defense of slavery.
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The latest episode of TAH.org's Landmark Supreme Court Cases Saturday Webinars aired live on Saturday, 15 October 2016, with Dred Scott v. Sandford as the focus. Prof. Chris Burkett of Ashland University moderated the discussion between Profs. Lucas Morel and Jonathan White, and included a live teacher audience of over 100. In addition to the background of the case itself, the panelists discussed the following question, most of which were posed by teachers from the audience: Did Justice Taney believe that the decision in the case would put an end to sectional differences over slavery? Were there political motives behind Taney's decision? What were the main points of the dissenting opinions? How did Taney justify and rationalize his decision? How did the decision reflect or relate to the positions of other leaders of the time, including Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens? An interesting point related to the case is that of the perceptions of the Founder's intent. Essentially, Taney asserted that the Founders never intended for African-Americans to be treated and seen as anything but property, and that they were truly lesser beings. If anyone believed otherwise, Taney's response would be that they misunderstood the Founders' true intentions. Alexander Stephens, on the other hand, asserted that although the Founders did promote equality of all people, they were wrong by including, even if only by implication, non-whites, and that the Southern view of the races, based in 'science,' was the correct one. Finally, it was Lincoln who believed that the Founders did include non-whites as people and therefore entitled to certain natural rights, and that if anything, it was the generations of leaders since who'd failed to continue to reach for those goals. The post Saturday Webinar: Dred Scott v. Sandford appeared first on Teaching American History.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+18+Morel.mp3 Focus What reasons did Southern secession commissioners give for seceding from the Union? What reasons did Alexander Stephens give in defense of the Southern Confederacy? Readings Charles B. Dew, "Apostles of Secession," North and South, IV (April 2001) John C. Calhoun, "Slavery as a Positive Good" (February 6, 1837) R.B. Rhett and C.G. Memminger, "The Justifying Causes of Secession" Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech Lincoln, "Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress," (April 15, 1861) Constitution of the Confederate States of America Lincoln, "Letter to Reverdy Jackson" (April 24, 1861) Lincoln, "Letter to Winfield Scott" (April 25, 1861) Fornieri, The Language of Liberty Annual Message to Congress (December 3, 1861), Excerpt Supplemental/Optional Readings McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, chap. 8 Mackubin Thomas Owens, "The Case Against Secession" The post Session 18: The Rights and Wrongs of Secession appeared first on Teaching American History.