As most alert readers (ARs) know, one of the longstanding traditions at The Schlafly Tap Room  is the celebration of Robert Burns’s birthday on January 25.

Schlafly is going to The Kentucky Derby.

Ever since the founding of the American republic politicians have been arguing about federalism and states’ rights.

The class of ’70 is turning 70 this year.  I am not making this up. Most people who graduated from college in 1970 were born in 1948, meaning they will officially become septuagenarians at some point in 2018.

For the first time since 1945, Valentine’s Day in 2018  coincides with Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian penitential season of Lent. 

In 1879 Tommy Wilson graduated from The College of New Jersey.  Twenty-three years later, in 1902, Woodrow Wilson was elected President of Princeton University.