New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating
Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor, the pro-slavery lawmaker behind one of America’s most notorious acts of political violence is getting a full-length...
Let’s Fix Our Broken Health Care System
We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and...
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TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Sunday. The Battle of Franklin Trust will host abbreviated after-hours...
Thanksgiving
It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg’s essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real — including...Obiter Dicta
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FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving Read More