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On this date in 1813, the British intensified their war against machine-wrecking Luddites by executing 14 at York. We touched last week on Mellor, Smith, and Thorpe, three Luddites hanged for assassinating a wool manufacturer during the dirty war that resulted from mechanizing formerly-artisanal textile production. The Luddite Bicentenary blog was prominently linked in that post; it’s been chronicling the real-time course of the Luddite rebellion from two hundred years’ remove, and is a recommended follow for anyone interested in this period. Today, the Luddite Bicentenary marks the mass hangings of January 16, 1813, pursuant to sentences issued by that...

I dont know about all of you, BUT, I a fed up, with the double-standard of the left. FROM NOW ON, I will have a harsh response, for those pleading for money, support, etc, TO SAVE ANIMALS, TREES, OR FISH, or for the civil rights of TERORISTS, KILLERS, AND ALIENS. After the way most of this country(according to polls) abandoned Terri Schiavo, allowing that demon-filled husband, and the other demons in the Florida legislature, to KILL her, I WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY OF THEIR ANIMAL RIGHTS CAUSES!! the left, and EVERYONE, need to know that PEOPLE, especially AMERICANS, are more...