Restate of the Union
President Obama sure is consistent. His State of the Union address sounded like his other speeches: What I’ve done is great! America is in a much better position. We’ve created a manufacturing sector that’s adding jobs. More oil is produced at home....News From Around the South 1/12 – 1/19
VIRGINIA: State to be Scene for New PBS Civil War Drama PBS appears to be discovering that drama happens on this side of the pond, too. After being wedded for so long to British-centric scripted series, including the mega-hit “Downton Abbey,”...
To Die for Charlie Hebdo?
“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.” That maxim of Voltaire was among those most invoked by the marching millions in Sunday’s mammoth “Je Suis Charlie” rally in Paris. This...A World War on American Soil
“So it seems your Republic is going to pieces?” an unnamed high officer of the French imperial government snidely remarked to the American guest attending a concert at Emperor Napoleon III’s residence in the Tuileries Palace. It was early March 1861, and the news...Obiter Dicta
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