Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Belgium is sending a commission to the United States to tell the American people all about German atrocities, real and imagined.  Which no...

Headline of the Day -100 ( Daily Mail ):  “Women’s War: White Feathers for ‘Slackers.’”  Retired Royal Navy Admiral Charles Penrose Fitzger...

John Kerry op-ed on ISIS:  “no decent country can support the horrors perpetrated by ISIS, and no civilized country should shirk its respo...

The House votes to create a Federal bureau of war risk marine insurance, with a $5,000,000 fund to cover the risk to shipping from the war...

Hillary Clinton, a little late to the Ferguson party: Imagine what he with would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three ti...

Austria declares war on Belgium. I feel like I should put those announcements in a special font or something. Germany and Austria offer pe...

King George of England writes to Albert, King of the Belgians: “I am shocked to hear of the dangers you have run from the throwing of bomb...

Austria declares war on Japan.  I think it’s a Secret Santa thing.  I don’t believe there were ever any Austro-Japanese battles. Prime Min...

British War Secretary Lord Kitchener says that wine and spirits sent to the troops will not be forwarded to them (soldiers are not expecte...

The US, still deciding how much censorship to impose on wireless stations, discovers that the Germans have been evading it through relay sh...

Japan declares war on Germany. The NYT says that three regiments of the Austrian Army were “literally cut to pieces at the confluence of...

Some Americans are volunteering for the French military, including aviator William Thaw, who’s bringing his plane with him. Several of the...

Germany imposes a war levy of $40 million on Brussels and $10 million on Liège, in violation of the rules of war as codified by the Hague ...

Venustiano Carranza enters Mexico City in triumph, occupies the National Palace, does the balcony thing, etc. William Randolph Hearst is in...

Pope Piux X has died . Supposedly the 79-year-old pope died from heartbreak over his lack of ability to prevent the slaughter of the Great ...

Woodrow Wilson chooses Attorney General James McReynolds for the empty seat on the Supreme Court.  Mostly so he doesn’t have to deal with t...

Turkish troops may be marching towards Greece. Russia demands that Turkey grant its ships free passage through the Dardanelles. The US...

Japan gives Germany an ultimatum: remove your navy from Japanese and Chinese waters and to turn over to Japan your colony (“concession”) i...

The Panama Canal officially opens . Former NY Gov. Sulzer, impeached last year, is chosen as the Prohibition Party’s candidate for governo...

Headline of the Day -100:  “3,000 in Forts Harass 250,000.”  Liège continues to hold out. There was an article about censorship of war ...