Here’s Why Trump Tap Dances on Taxes
Donald Trump has reason to be reluctant to release his tax returns. In a New York Times piece about Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Rhodes cynically explains that today’s journalism consists of young people whom he flat-out...
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LOUISIANA: City Pulls Bid for Confederate Monument Removal Contract NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration has scrapped its request for bids on a contract to remove Confederate monuments from the city, citing a court order. The bids were...
A Movie For Clintonites
Washington — A couple of weeks ago I heard the National Symphony Orchestra perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphony commemorating war and revolution, his Symphony No. 11. There was not much lyricism to it, not even a dulcet tune one could whistle while leaving the...
South’s Confederate Monument Problem
It was 1913, and the Civil War had been over for 48 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that worked to populate the South with Confederate war memorials, decided such a monument should be erected in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of...
America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era
What’s your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America? For many astute commentators on various points of the political spectrum, it is postwar America, the two decades after the United States and its allies won...Obiter Dicta
In my childhood years, I got to experience something I’ve cherished ever since: starry nights. I was lucky to spend Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More