
Blue State Blues: The Iran Deal and the Jay Treaty
Barack Obama’s Iran deal looks worse with each passing day, as America’s enemies grow stronger and the U.S. becomes weaker.

Barack Obama’s Iran deal looks worse with each passing day, as America’s enemies grow stronger and the U.S. becomes weaker.

At high noon, on June 1, 1813, U.S. Navy Captain James Lawrence disembarked from Boston Harbor with his frigate, the U.S.S. Chesapeake, to do battle with British Commodore Phillip Broke’s H.M.S. Shannon. At the time, the United States—a burgeoning country just a few decades old—was at war with Great Britain over perceived violations of American rights by the world’s preeminent superpower on the high seas.

On this day, 200 years ago, General Andrew Jackson and a ragtag assortment of American soldiers, militia, pirates, and volunteers successfully defended the City of New Orleans against the British Army.