Watch the video for a sneak peak and answers to these enlightening questions:

• How did the United States warn Japan prior to dropping the atomic bomb?

• How did the servicemen on the Enola Gay feel about their mission?

• What did the cockpit look like for the bomardier on the Enola Gay?

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These days you can't have a Pop Tart-shaped gun without educators having a conniption fit. That was not the case back in the day. On this episode of The Vault, Glenn is joined by his son Raphe, daughter Mary Cate and Tim Barton from WallBuilders to talk about gun education in the days of Teddy Roosevelt and some of America’s forgotten young heroes.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these surprising questions:

• What advice did Teddy Roosevelt have for a school boy who wrote to him?

• What did Roosevelt want at every school in America?

• How does Glenn's son Raphe compare in stature to a Civil War era soldier?

Watch the full episode, courtesy of Mercury Radio Arts.

Traditions and customs can be, well, weird. Some fall through the cracks, but others stand the test of time --- like passing on a lock of hair. On this episode of The Vault, Glenn, historian David Barton and Mercury Museum curator Jeremy Boyd examine a lock of George Washington's hair --- and the supporting documentation that validates its authenticity --- as well as other treasures from the Revolutionary War.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these fascinating questions:

• What types of historical items rev Glenn's engine?

• What's the going rate for a lock of a historical hair?

• What was the fake news printed about George Washington?

Watch the full episode, courtesy of Mercury Radio Arts.

Don't know the name Sara Breedlove? What about C.J. Walker? If not, you should. She was the first self-made female millionaire in the United States --- black or white. On this episode of hiSTORY Glenn tells the remarkable story of “Madam” C.J. Walker. The child of former slaves who grew up in the violently racist Deep South, Walker rose from poverty and abuse to blaze an inspiring trail of entrepreneurship and philanthropy that could only happen in America.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these informative questions:

• Why did Madam C.J. Walker meet with Woodrow Wilson in the Oval Office?

• What station in life did a black woman hold in post-Civil War America?

• How did white politicians feel about their newly-elected black colleagues?

Watch the full episode, courtesy of Mercury Radio Arts.

Award season can't be over soon enough. Which Grammy moment won the night?

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) February 13, 2017

Watch the full episode here: The Vault | S2:E6 – Black History Part 2

Do Your Homework

Below is a compilation of research that went into the making of this episode, complete with links to original sources so you can do your own homework. As you watch, consider the following questions:

1. How politically incorrect was Henry Garnet's sermon?

2. What four churches used the U.S. Capitol for services?

3. How does Garnet's sermon dispel common misconceptions about Thomas Jefferson?

SEGMENT 1

• USS Planter / Robert Smalls?
• Henry Hilland Garnett, his biography and the name of the sermon given at the capitol building
• Woodrow Wilson’s A History of the American People (1902)
• Glory movie historical context
• Four churches that used to meet inside the U.S. Capitol
• The Founding of the KKK
• Whites lynched between 1866 and 1962
• The Bloody Shirts (SEE PAGE 357)
• What happened at Fort Pillow?
• Read the 14th Amendment
• Abraham Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus
• Without Sanctuary by James Allen
• Jamie Foxx’s most gifted book

SEGMENT 2

• Read the 15th Amendment
• Hide and Seek Polling Places
• Read the Enforcement Act of 1871 (Anti-Klan law)
• Civil Rights Act of 1875 *in show David says 1876
• Sumner Civil Rights Bill 1873
• 1876 House of Representatives has democratic majority

SEGMENT 3

• The Election of 1892
• What does the Secretary of the Senate do?
• What is an etcher?
• Racist Currier & Ives

SEGMENT 4

• First African-American U.S. Senator (1827-1901):Hiram Rhodes Revels
• One of the first African-Americans in the U.S. House of Representatives (1842-1884):Robert Brown Elliott
• One of the first African-Americans U.S. House of Representatives (1832-1887): Joseph Hayne Rainey
• One of the first African-Americans U.S. House of Representatives (1842-1905): Josiah Thomas Walls
• One of the first African-Americans U.S. House of Representatives (1825-1894): Benjamin Sterling Turner
• Neglected Voices

Fake news might seem like a new phenomenon but it has been a reality as long as there has ever been real news. On this episode of hiSTORY, Glenn tells the tale of an overzealous newspaper owner looking to make his mark on the world and how it spiraled out of control, leading to the explosion of race riots that sparked the devastation of Black Wall Street.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these disturbing questions:

• What was the Tulsa Tribune's claim to fame?

• What story was going to help Richard Lloyd Jones put the Tulsa Tribune on the map?

• What misreported event led to the worsening of race relations in Tulsa?

Watch the full episode, courtesy of Mercury Radio Arts.

Vowing to ditch your Facebook page or unfriend people posting those nasty post-election messages? On this episode of Think Tank, Glenn and the crew are joined by radio host Doc Thompson and financial expert Chris Martenson who shared interesting thoughts on why some Americans are reacting so negatively to Trump's election.

• How is Mark Zuckerberg trying to fix Facebook's "echo chamber" problem?

• Could Zuckerberg run for president and win?

• What is the "rat in the cage" experiment and how does it explain the riots at Berkley?

Watch the full episode on-demand at TheBlaze TV.

New Sec. of Ed Betsy DeVos has been a lightning rod of controversy. Is she the right person for the job? #TrumpCabinet

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) February 9, 2017

A reported 20 million people gained healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but dig a little deeper and that number is skewed. Both Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have said that 14.5 million of the 20 million were under Medicaid or CHIP, the children's version of Medicaid.

"But somewhere between a quarter and a half of that 14.5 million were already eligible for Medicaid even before Obamacare took effect. So these numbers that they're taking credit for, first of all, a lot of it is Medicaid and not the standard Obamacare we always talk about," Co-host Stu Burguiere said Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Program.

In fact, many were already eligible for existing programs, but they just weren't on them. In actuality, about three million new people gained new coverage because of Obamacare.

"So, you lost your doctor for three million people. Why didn't we just design something for those three million people?" Glenn asked.

It's estimated that five to seven million people lost their preferred provided due to Obama's Affordable Care Act.

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"Excuse me?" Glenn asked, perplexed on a variety of levels.

Co-host Pat Gray wondered if perhaps Couric might have stumbled upon something that would cause an epiphany.

"If that's the case, haven't you stumbled onto something there, that maybe you shouldn't be destroying this female . . . this transgendered baby? I mean, maybe that's how we attack this now, from a transgendered point of view. How many transgendered people are you going to abort?" Pat asked.

Does science or reason even play a role in their thinking? If only fetuses were ice caps or melting glaciers then the left would be on red alert about abortion.

"Every generation is impacted by whatever's going on during their formative years. If you grew up during the Depression and the Second World War, during rations, probably you're a little miserly," Sinek said.

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One significant challenge facing Millennials is technology, which breeds isolation and loneliness. Ever the optimist, Sinek offered tangible ways for parents and Millennials to reverse this trend.

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"In the legislative domain, we ought to be able to start with things that we can agree on. Americans are the kind of people who cheer for the vulnerable. We fight for minorities. We protect the powerless from the powerful. And a little baby boy or girl that's just been born, fighting for their life, I mean, it's the most basic thing that people who are humane defend," Sen. Sasse said.

The senator also spoke about gains being made in the pro-life movement outside of the legislative process.

"People are seeing diagnostic technologies of babies in utero, and they're realizing that that's a baby. It's not a squirrel. So there's a lot of good stuff happening in the pro-life movement, as people are celebrating a culture of life," he said.

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Last night, at UC Berkeley, things got really ugly and out of hand. And it looks as though the press doesn't really care about the anarchy and the anti-capitalists that were out smashing the banks and the Starbucks, like they had anything to do with anything. Starbucks, where you sit and have coffee and discuss Karl Marx. Why are you breaking their windows? What have they done?

Oh, I remember. You're upset at Donald Trump and his Muslim ban, which isn't a Muslim ban. Got it. Got it.

But wait a minute. Didn't Starbucks say they were going to hire 10,000 refugees? Oh, that doesn't matter. Go ahead. Burn them down too. Because you don't really care. You're for chaos. You're for burning the whole system down.

And who are you protesting? You're protesting another guy who wants to burn the entire system down. You two should unite. You two should get together. You two should go on the road.

Maybe you will. Maybe Milo could go from place to place, college campus to college campus, saying horrible, despicable things, and you can fall right into it. Because all he's trying to do is create chaos. That's what he believes in: chaos. Burn the entire thing down. None of it works. A nihilist.

Then you can actually, in protesting a nihilist, become the nihilist yourself and burn it all down. And then the regular people will stand around saying, Somebody has to make that stop. Because the world has been turned inside out and upside down, and the top will come crashing down to help you.

Geez, where have I seen this before?

I can't take 144 characters anymore. I can't take Facebook anymore. I can't take talk radio, where we have three hours to converse. Because there are those who will listen to two minutes of what I have to say, that might take me 20 minutes to fully explain and understand, and you're off on Facebook. You're off on Twitter. You're off making a meme, to make sure that you can dump more poison into the system. Isn't this great? America, this is what it's all about. This is the land of the free and home of the brave, isn't it?

Look how brave we are. We can all sit behind our little memes. We can all sit behind an avatar and a fake name, and we can produce a fake life. And we can take pictures of just the good parts of our life so we can show everybody how great and cool we are. Boy, we are the home of the brave.

The young face of the alt-right, the 31-year-old Breitbart writer (what a surprise), known as the "dangerous faggot," has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and Libertarians. Why? Because he punches back twice as hard. That's why.

He's neither a Libertarian, nor a conservative. Well, Glenn, how could you possibly say he's a racist? Oh, my gosh. He's a homosexual who has dated black dudes. Oh, you're right. (Hey, by the way, you should come over sometime because a friend of mine has this whole collection of letters that Goebbels wrote to his Jewish girlfriend. But you're right, you're right.) But wait --- The Night of Long Knives --- I'm trying to remember, how many SA commanders were caught in bed with young men? I'm trying to remember. That number was zero. Or I know it had a zero or two in the number, so it must have been zero.

If Donald Trump defies political correctness, then Milo --- how do you say his name? --- Yiannopoulos is an avid Trump supporter prone to calling the Donald "Daddy," and he obliterates political correctness.

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According to The Daily Beast, he says, "F your feelings." And the kids love it. How could you not? As the student left becomes insufferably extreme, he's the perfect counterpunch. He's irreverent. He's exciting. He's punk rock. He's got bleach blond hair. He sticks his middle finger up to the establishment on the left and the right.

He's connecting with the 18 to 34-year-olds. He warns the GOP, You're alienating not the old voters, but the next generation of conservative firebrands who are currently gravitating to Trump, the alt-right and Milo.

He's the guy who wrote for Breitbart the 3,500-word piece, An Establishment Conservative's Guide to the Alt-right. Although, initially small in numbers, the alt-right has youthful energy and jarring taboo-defying rhetoric that has boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore.

This movement is young, and they defy all the taboos. And unfortunately, the alt-right has become impossible to ignore. Because it's racist. But I don't mean racist like the left does, where merely being white and male is a sin. I mean rationalizing, what, you're intellectually or culturally superior because you're white. I mean believing that black and brown people are less valuable society and should be viewed with contempt.

Is he racist? No. He's dated black dudes.

Even though the alt-right will openly crack jokes about the Holocaust, express its outrage of race mixing, they do have real problems with race mixing, writes Milo. And that's only because anything associated as quickly with racism and bigotry as the alt-right will inevitably attract will racists and bigots. The alt-right intellectuals would also argue that culture really is inseparable from race. There's a difference.

And we're in the "we" generation now, and this is what happened in the 1930s. This is what happened during the French Revolution. The "we" gets together and either says, We're better than this. and they understand who they serve. And they serve a loving God that teaches peace and comfort, decency, honor, charity, love, or they serve a God that says, Tear it all down.

The ends justify the means. Darkness is good. Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, Satan, that's real power. That's Steve Bannon's quote.

Does this sound familiar at all? At least a tip of the hat to the world's first rebel who rebelled so well that at least he won his own kingdom, Satan. That's Saul Alinsky.

We have been poked and prodded. Right now, Donald Trump is having a war with CNN. Well, I've seen this before, except the press didn't report the last time a president did this, and it's just been ratcheted up, but it's the same exact war. Donald Trump has been saying, I don't watch CNN anymore. It's all fake news.

Gosh, I remember somebody else saying that about Fox News. Who was that?

See, I was there. I was there when we were effectively taking on the Obama administration.

And first, the pressure started coming up from the office of Roger Ailes. Hey, we all love the Constitution, but, you know, there are things that we have to do. Hey, you know, you're kind of speaking out against the GOP Hey, we're starting to get a lot of pressure now from the White House to our White House reporters, our White House reporters aren't really getting access. Don't ever say you like our White House news reporters.

See, I was there. I saw that pressure. I saw how that worked.

So Trump isn't doing anything new. Trump is just taking it up one more leg. One more rung up on the ladder, because he learned what worked from the left.

And the press was quiet and complicit. They don't believe in freedom of speech. They believe in the freedom of speech that they like. The First Amendment is worthless, unless you stand by the speech that you despise. No university in this country is worth their salt, unless they can say, "Yes, Milo can show up. Milo can speak."

How do you even know what you like, what you despise, who you are, what you believe, if you won't even listen to the other side, except for maybe in 144 characters? Any time somebody tells you not to watch it, not to listen to it, not to read it, by God, that's the first thing I do. I read, I watch, I listen.

I know why Hitler was so bad. Not because I watched some stupid documentary. Because I read Mein Kampf.

I know why the alt-right is poison. Because I've read Aleksandr Dugin. I recognize who Milo is. I recognize what Steve Bannon is. I recognize the tools that they're using and why they're choosing each word.

Because I've read the horror show and the manual that they're currently using --- and it's not 1933. It's a brand-new theory. The Fourth Political Theory. You don't know what it is? Oh, well, you shouldn't look into it. Don't read it. It's too dangerous. Don't read it. It's bad.

Everyone should read it; otherwise, you'll be swept into it. Because it's going to be mighty popular. It's found a way to tell you all the things you want to hear in the language that you want to hear it. Oh, it's going to make you feel so good. It's going to be so popular. But the last thing you should do is know exactly how it works, why it works and what the ends are. Let's just hope for change.

I stand against the UC Berkeley anarchists. You don't have a right to do what you did.

I stand for Milo and his ability to be heard and to speak without danger. But I also want to make it very clear: He is a despicable human being. His message is poison, but he has a right to say it. And I believe people should listen, but not go in blindly.

Which domestic terrorist action at UC Berkeley disturbs you most? https://t.co/3TjbcUYpvS

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) February 2, 2017

You know them as presidents, heroes, inventors and American icons. But before they were famous, who were people like Abraham Lincoln, Orson Welles and Albert Einstein? They started as ordinary people --- farmers, artists, soldiers and teachers. Unfortunately, the stories of their lives before rising to greatness are seldom told.

Who better to tell these stories than young American students, willing to explore and share their untold beginnings, and show their relevance today?

Glenn has teamed up with Mercury One to hold a series of contests for high school students to compete for the best essays on such topics. Winners will receive scholarships (up to $5,000 each), plus other prizes, including a tour of Glenn's studio and the Mercury One museum.

How to Join the Contest

The contest is open to high school students in public, private, charter schools and home school groups. History teachers with students in grades 9 through 12 are encouraged to nominate their classes to participate. To nominate a class, teachers should email historycontest@glennbeck.com with “NOMINATION” in the subject line and a detailed explanation about why they would like their class to be considered. If a class is approved, participation instructions are provided to the teacher via email.

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How to Help Raise Scholarship Funds

Scholarship funds will be raised through the sale of themed t-shirts for each contest. Those who wish to help these exceptional students receive the largest scholarship possible are encouraged to buy one of these t-shirts. For every t-shirt sold, 30% of the revenue will be donated to Mercury One’s “education fund” to support the students.

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Contest Themes for 2017

Below are the names of the famous Americans chosen for 2017's "Before They Were Famous" Essay Writing Contest:

• George Washington: Farmer

• Martin Luther King Jr.: Reverend

• Davy Crockett: Hunter

• Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer

• Ronald Reagan: Actor

• Lewis and William Clark: Soldiers

• Thomas Jefferson: Scholar

• Wright Brothers: Merchants

• Paul Revere: Apprentice

• Orson Welles: Artist

• Sitting Bull: Healer

• Albert Einstein: Teacher

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The Winner

Student winners of the "Before They Were Famous" Essay Writing Contest will receive the following:

• The winning student’s essay published on GlennBeck.com under his/her own byline.

• Mercury One, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, will award the winner with a scholarship from its “Education Fund” to be used to further the student’s education.

• Mercury One will host the winner to a mini-museum experience and studio tour in Irving, Texas. Airfare and lodging for the winner and a guardian will be provided.

• A commemorative t-shirt featuring the historical figure explored in the essay.

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In yet another attempt to shield our youth from the detrimental impact of reality, grief counselors have been brought into some schools for students or teachers having trouble dealing with Donald Trump's inauguration.

"What about the grief of the people who disagreed with you last time? What about those people? They were called names if they disagreed," Glenn said Friday on radio.

The blind hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is stunning.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott will deliver his State of the State address at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, January 31, 2017.

The Texas Convention of States Project (COS) team hopes to have an overwhelming presence at Governor Abbott’s State of the State address, thanking him for his support and making clear that Texans support invoking Article V of the US Constitution and calling a Convention of the States by passing HJR39 and SJR2.

The governor has been a vocal supporter of a Convention of States and their resolution, making it a legislative priority in 2017.

Be among the 1,000 supporters filling seats in the Texas Capitol House Gallery on January 31.

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As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation

Mark Meckler, one of the nation’s most effective grassroots activists and a national leader for the Convention of States Project, recently visited The Glenn Beck Program to talk about the important role Texas will play in exercising Article V of the US Constitution.

"The most important state is Texas. Texas is big. Texas leads the way in the South and the Midwest. Always, other states look to Texas. It's really extraordinary what's happened in the state of Texas," Meckler said. "We are the very first priority outside of the Texas Constitution."

The Answer to the Cancer

For decades now, the federal government has overreached its constitutionally-established boundaries, unchecked by an entitled, ineffective Congress. The Founders knew the federal government might one day become drunk with the abuses of power. The most important check to this power is Article V, which gives states the power to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution. By calling a Convention of the States, we can stop the federal spending and debt spree, the power grabs of the federal courts, and other misuses of federal power. The current situation is precisely what the Founders feared, and they gave us a solution we have a duty to use.

Be a Part of History

Help achieve real change and be a part of history by attending Governor Abbott's State of the State address. Texas can help lead the way for a two-thirds majority of states to apply for a ​Convention​ of the States​, a full-proof process for real change that Congress has no authority to stop.

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Even with all the pomp and planning, presidential inaugurations are not immune to problems or peculiarities. Below are seven inaugurals that got weird, silly or just plain didn't go smoothly.

1 | Dwight D. Eisenhower: Lassoed and Lovin' It

At the time of the 1953 inauguration, the United States was at the height of its infatuation with screen cowboys. Montie Montana, a renowned trick roper who performed in 60 Rose Bowl parades and more than 20 movies (including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), was asked to add some cowboy flavor to the inaugural proceedings. Montana suggested to the president that he could present President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon with 10-gallon hats, but Ike decided to go with a lassoing instead.¹

2 | Andrew Johnson: The Drunk Vice President

In 1865, Andrew Johnson gave a train-wreck of a speech on the big day. The vice president usually gives a short and smooth speech prior to the president's address. But the 16th vice president, who later became the 17th president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated that year, was ill with typhoid fever and took the medicine of the day --- whiskey --- the night before. The hangover must have gone to his head. During the speech, he bragged about his humble origins and his triumph over Confederate rebels. Lincoln reportedly looked on in horror.²

3 | Andrew Jackson: Party Like Its 1829

The White House has seen a lot of big parties, but nothing compares to March 4, 1829, when Andrew Jackson’s open house sparked a mob scene that almost destroyed the president’s house. A rugged, "man of the people," Jackson attracted a similarly rough and rowdy crowd. The party was so big that the courageous, battle-tested President Jackson fled the scene (out a back door or through a window) as a huge crowd drank heavily, destroyed furniture and china, and even ground cheese into the carpets with their boots on the White House carpet. Only the promise of more free liquor drew the rabble out of the executive mansion.³

4 | Ulysses S. Grant: The Dead Birds

Ulysses S. Grant thought canaries would add a festive touch to his inaugural ball in 1873, the beginning of his second term. Unfortunately, the 18th president failed to anticipate the cold temperatures — the morning low was 4 degrees Fahrenheit (about 15 degrees Celsius), the coldest March day on record. With wind chill, the day felt like a blustery minus 15 F to minus 30 F (minus 26 C to minus 34 C). All told, about 100 birds froze to death during Grant's inauguration.⁴

5 | John F. Kennedy: Comedy of Errors

Things didn’t exactly go smoothly during Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration. An overnight snowstorm almost forced the cancellation of the festivities, but they continued as planned—sort of. During the invocation, a short circuit caused smoke to temporarily pour out from the lectern. Then when poet Robert Frost took to the podium, he was unable to read his original composition due to the bright glare reflecting off the snow. Instead, he was forced to recite another ode from memory and then told the crowd he dedicated it “to the president-elect, Mr. John Finley.” Luckily, most only remembered Kennedy’s eloquent inaugural address that followed.⁵

6 | William Henry Harrison: A Killer Speech

It’s common wisdom that William Henry Harrison delivered one killer of a speech after being sworn in as the ninth president of the United States—and it had nothing to do with anything he said. Ignoring the advice of vigilant mothers everywhere, “Old Tippecanoe” swore off his overcoat, hat and gloves while giving his inaugural address on a freezing, wet winter day. And in a quest to prove his virility while silencing critics who thought him an intellectual lightweight, the 68-year-old Harrison definitely overcompensated by delivering a whopping 8,445-word speech that droned on for nearly two hours. Many believe that history’s lengthiest inaugural address led directly to the briefest of presidencies as Harrison died exactly one month later on April 4, 1841—with the official cause listed as pneumonia.⁶

7 | James Buchanan: The Ill-fated Inauguration

The most tragic of inauguration horror stories happened in 1857 at the inauguration of James Buchanan. In an eerie resemblance to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Philadelphia a century later, guests who attended events at one of Washington’s biggest hotels came down with a mystery illness, and then died quickly or over the course of the following two years. Buchanan himself contracted the disease twice and survived: once before his inauguration and once shortly after it. In both cases, he was at the hotel.

Among the 36 fatalities were people who attended the official post-inauguration banquet at the hotel, including three U.S. congressmen. Today, experts believe inadequate sanitary conditions existed in the hotel, including problems with its sewage system. The hotel was demolished in the 1920s and a tourist attraction, the Newseum, now sits on its location.⁷

Sources:

¹Slate.com

²LiveScience.com

³Constitution Center

⁴LiveScience.com

⁵History.com

⁶History.com

⁷Constitution Center

While most everyone is talking about President Obama commuting the sentence of traitor Bradley Manning, there's another release that should garner as much attention.

"Yesterday, the president released Oscar Lopez Rivera. Who is he? A Puerto Rican nationalist and one of the leaders of FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional or Armed Forces of National Liberation)," Glenn said Wednesday on radio.

In 1981, Lopez was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy, the use of force to commit robbery, interstate transportation of firearms and conspiracy to transport explosives with an intent to destroy government property. In 1988, Rivera was sentenced to an additional 15 years for conspiring to escape from Leavenworth. He was one of the 14 convicted FALN members offered conditional clemency by Bill Clinton in 1999, but rejected the offer.

"Let me tell you how bad this guy is," Glenn said. "In 1980, a robber breaks into an apartment. He's so freaked out by what he finds, he goes to the police and says, Hey, I want to tell you something. I was trying to rob this guy's house. You guys need to know what I found."

What did he find? Oscar Lopez Rivera's apartment, full of high-end explosives and plans of government buildings in Chicago.

"Why is this guy so important to pardon? Who is influencing the president to bring him up on his radar? Why does he even know about this guy? I don't keep track of the Marxist terrorists that are in prison," Glenn said.

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On the morning of April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, setting traditions in place his very first day in office. Neither swearing the oath on a Bible nor giving an inaugural address were mandated by Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. Those ceremonial actions were invented by Washington himself, and have largely been followed since 1789.¹ Below are a few more historical tidbits from Washington's two inaugurations after being elected unanimously for each term as president.

1 | The George Washington Bible

The Bible used at George Washington's first inauguration was on loan from St. Johns Masonic Lodge No. 1, Ancient York Masons. Washington, a Freemason, was sworn into office with his hand on the open pages displaying Chapters 49-50 of Genesis, a section chosen at random.² The George Washington Bible has been in the possession of St. John’s Lodge No. 1 A.Y.M. in New York, NY since 1770.³

2 | Shortest Inauguration Speech in History

George Washington gave the shortest inauguration address in history during his second inauguration on March 4, 1793. Washington's second inaugural address was only 135 words long.⁴

Fellow Citizens:

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of united America.

Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated willingly or knowingly the injunctions thereof, I may (besides incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.

3 | So Help Me God

Although not officially part of the official oath, George Washington is credited with adding the line "So help me God" after he finished the oath during his first inauguration. Most Presidents have also uttered this phrase at the end of their oaths.⁵

4 | Divine Church Service

Three days before George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States, Congress passed the following resolution:

Resolved, That after the oath shall have been administered to the President, he, attended by the Vice President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall proceed to St. Paul’s Chapel, to hear divine service.⁶

Accordingly, the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), newly appointed chaplain of the United States Senate and first Episcopal bishop of New York, officiated at a service in St. Paul's Chapel on April 30, 1789, immediately following Washington’s inauguration.⁷

5 | Dinner Alone at the Presidential Mansion

After taking the oath of office on the portico before a cheering crowd, George Washington proceeded into the Senate chamber to deliver his First Inaugural Address. According to assembled members of Congress, President Washington was visibly nervous, spoke in a surprisingly quiet voice, and maintained a serious, modest demeanor.

The inaugural party then attended divine service at St. Paul's Chapel in New York. Following the church service, President Washington, in a carriage, was “escorted to his residence,” at Franklin House where he dined alone.⁸

Sources:

¹SmithsonianMag.com

²National Archives Foundation

³SJ1 Foundation

⁴About Education

⁵About Education

⁶Annals of Congress, Vol. 1, p. 25, April 27, 1789

⁷National Cathedral

⁸MountVernon.org Timeline of the Inauguration

In 1760, Thomas Jefferson courageously scribbled these words on paper, committing an act of treason:

We find these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, with certain unalienable rights, given to them by their creator. Among them, life, liberty and property.

To further ensure the end of slavery, the word “property” was changed to “the pursuit of happiness.” Do Americans know about and understand the impact of that change?

More than 200 years later, a black preacher from the South, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., courageously fought for those same ideals: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness---for all men and women, regardless of race, creed or color.

This four-part series explores the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., a complicated man who became the iconic symbol of the America's Civil Rights Movement.

1. Civil Rights Timeline

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2. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes To Live By

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3. ‘I Have a Dream’ Newspaper Visualization

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4. March On Washington 50th Anniversary: An Economic Look

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5. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lasting Legacy

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream Speech is recognized as one of the greatest speeches in human history. Delivered with conviction and confidence, Dr. King's words evoked emotion in the crowd of nearly 250,000 in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Beyond that, what made the iconic speech one of the greatest moments in the 20th century?

Nancy Durante, a presentation expert, has broken down the elements of Dr. King's speech, explaining why it resonated that day in 1963 and continues to inspire people 50 years later.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte from Duarte on Vimeo.

Editor's Note: A version of the following originally posted on 6.9.15.

The writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. have greatly shaped Glenn's thinking the past five years --- and they continue to play a significant role. In June of 2015, Glenn shared key passages of King's sermon Guidelines for a Constructive Church, delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 5, 1966. This sermon deals heavily with the role of the church and pastors, both in spiritual matters and matters of the physical world. It's a message as important today as it was in the 1960s.

Here are key passages that have influenced Glenn's thinking:

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". . . we who are followers of Jesus Christ, and we who must keep his church going and keep it alive, also have certain basic guidelines to follow. . . . There are some guidelines that my church must follow."

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me. . . . These are the guidelines."

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"You see, the church is not a social club, although some people think it is. . . .The church is not an entertainment center. Monkeys are to entertain, not preachers."

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"But in the final analysis the church has a purpose. The church is dealing with man's ultimate concern. And therefore it has certain guidelines that it must follow."

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"The church must say to men and woman that Good Friday is a fact of life."

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"If the church is true to its guidelines, it heals the broken-hearted."

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"And the preacher does nothing to free them from their prejudice so often. Then you have another group sitting up there who would really like to do something about racial injustice, but they are afraid of social, political, and economic reprisals, so they end up silent."

Listen to the full sermon below:

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Editor's Note: The following was originally published on 8.30.16 as a guest post by Burgess Owens, former NFL star and author of Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps.

“If you can define the self-perception of a race, you can define its future for generations.”

- Burgess Owens

The visionary, industrious, Christian and segregated Black community of the early to mid 1960’s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic Black men throughout our nation’s history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war. It was reflected in their actions on the field of battle—courage, patriotism, faith, tenacity and love for race, God and country.

It has been recorded throughout the annals of American history beginning with our nation’s first martyr—an ex-slave and free Black man Crispus Attucks—in its fight for Independence in 1770. Our history records, among its host of proud war veterans, over 5,000 Black men who fought as patriots during the Revolutionary War.

We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the All-Black, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered NO quarter if captured alive.

The importance of projecting a positive self-perception was seen with the 332nd Fighting Group nicknamed "Hell Fighters" by their German enemy, who received France’s highest military honor, the Croix de Guerre, during WWII. My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud Black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

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Our past Black generations understood instinctively that they were fighting the battle of racism on two fronts:

The most obvious was their fight against the Democratic Party’s racist Jim Crow laws, intimidation by its terrorist arm, the KKK, and its demeaning messaging of abortion by Black and White Democratic eugenicists.

The second battle, fighting to maintain and grow its positive self-perception, was not as easily measured. In hindsight, we can see the initial success of their mission. It is portrayed in pictures like the one of educated, disciplined and intelligent young WWII Black Tuskegee Airmen whose tenacity and courage earned the respect of White B-17 Fortress pilots, whose lives they protected and saved.

It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so. Its leaders would lead demonstrations and often be jailed wearing white shirts, black ties and jackets—all for the sake of perception.

They fought against negative racist stereotyping with their appearance, their command of the English language, their emotional discipline and their Judeo-Christian love that allowed them to forgive and move forward. They had faith in the American Promise that these actions would soften the hearts of our nation and defeat the hateful and demeaning perception assigned by the southern Democratic Party.

They were correct in their faith in the American people.

What exactly were racist stereotypes that they were fighting during that era? It was the portrayal of an inferior, dependent and monkey-linked race. It was a race projected as sloppy in appearance and dress, uneducated, inarticulate, incapable of critical thinking, easy to “herd” into groupthink, physically, emotional and sexually undisciplined, reckless breeders. But, boy, do they LOVE to sing and dance.

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This demeaning stereotype, once defeated by MLK’s generation, has reared is ugly head once again in the setting of BET (Black Entertainment TV), 100% owned and controlled by wealthy and powerful White Liberal/Socialist Democrats. Their three billion dollar purchase in 2001 gave Sumner Redstone and the Viacom Corp unfettered access to the urban Black community. They then proceeded for the next 15 years to fire-hose this community nationally with anti-White, anti-police, anti-American, anti-woman, anti-family liberal FILTH. It has resulted in the fermenting of hatred and distrust for police authority and a disdain for our American culture. As Viacom shines the light of unaddressed Black Misery as a political strategy, it has increased the dependency and loyalty of the Black urban community as a voting block for the Democratic Party. Predictably omitted are the facts that at the root of all Black misery, as far back as 70 years, are Anti-Black Democratic policies.

Within the BET website can be seen the dark and empathy-free heart of the White Socialist Democratic owners of BET, who have successfully re-established the racist stereotypes previously eradicated. The White racist perception of the Black race can be seen in BET’s featured star, a rapper that young urban fatherless boys will soon seek to emulate. It is the tattooed face and neck of a young man called “Young Thug.” With a tribal-like ring through his nose and inarticulate speech patterns, he has a continual presence on BET’s gossip page discussing his reckless breeding habits, accumulation of “baby mommas” and the babies who he refuses to support. His filthy language, filthy mind and disdain for commitment and respect for women is presented to our young Black girls and boys as normal—although the cowardly, wealthy White Wizard, hiding behind the curtain of Blackness, would never tolerate his presence around their family or living in their mixed neighborhood of Democratic elitists.

The 2016 White Liberal Democratic owners of BET have portrayed for 15 years a perception of Black Americans that remarkably mimics the racist Democratic-controlled south of the early to mid-1900’s—sloppy in appearance and dress, uneducated, inarticulate, incapable of critical thinking, easy to “herd” into groupthink, physically, emotional and sexually undisciplined, reckless breeders. But, boy, do they LOVE to sing and dance.

Within the website of Viacom, aka, BET is also seen the true cowardice and bullying of the White racist Wizard as they utilize a strategy proven effective in 1930’s by Margaret Sanger—The Negro Project. With the use of a Black front, they pay like-minded Socialist Black Americans to demean, attack and denigrate other Blacks who are deemed a threat to their plantation-like groupthink. Typically, these are articulate, educated, successful, Christian, patriotic and thoughtful Black Americans offering alternatives.

Ultimately the restoration of the Black community will rely on the delivery of this message by committed Black Conservative Americans. Other Americans can support this effort by helping to shed light on those who have purposely used misery and hopelessness to empower themselves and their party.

It is time we call Viacom CEO Phil Dauman, Sheri Redstone and the all-White Democratic Board of Viacom from behind the curtain of Blackness to explain their organizations decades-old strategy for fermenting the Marxist and racist hate group, Black Lives Matter. Every time a policemen is assassinated and another young Black American radicalized through their BET anti-police, anti-American website, this corporation and its leaders should be held accountable.

Only when the light and eyes of the American people are on these “Corporate Hate Breeders” will we be able to grant a level of safety to our police nationally and stem the divisive nature of the Democratic Party-driven Socialist/Marxist movement within our country.

Image: (L to R) Rapper Young Thug, alternately known as No, My Name is Jeffery or Jeffery (Photo Credit: Black Entertainment Television); Members of the 332nd Fighter Group attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy, March, 1945. (Photo Credit: Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress)

Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 --- a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin --- racial tensions remained high in America. During the 1970s, many schools employed full-time police officers to keep the peace between black and white students.

In a powerful story of faith and forgiveness, Woodlawn tells the true story of Birmingham’s first African-American superstar, Tony Nathan, who was heavily recruited by Bear Bryant.

From director Jon Erwin:

It’s a story of a high school that was going to close from violence due to integration. 1973 Birmingham, my home town,” Erwin said. “And nothing could fix the problem. Nothing could fix the hatred. You know, policy couldn’t fix it, police. And it was a spiritual awakening that happened on the football team. The entire team decided to make a decision together to love God and love each other.

This weekend is the perfect opportunity to watch Woodlawn --- rated five stars on Amazon. See Glenn's full interview with director Jon Erwin, who premiered the film in 2015 at Restoring Unity in Birmingham, Alabama.