Time To Move On From Anger
This Saturday marks President Ronald Reagan’s 110th birthday. Without Reagan, the outcome of the Cold War would have been much different. He was a Hollywood actor before becoming the governor of California and a two-term president. In 1987, during a speech at...
Woman Fights Harvard Over Rights To Nude Images of Enslaved Ancestors
In 1976, in an unfrequented museum attic at Harvard University, Lorna Condon opened a drawer. Condon, a young editorial assistant at the school’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, had been foraging around a dusty corner of storage with two colleagues that...
If Schools Are Essential, They Should Be Open
WASHINGTON — “There are only two choices: Which one will it be?” the Chicago Teachers Union argued to its members. “Risk your life or your students’ lives by going into dangerous buildings,” or agree to strike if Chicago Public Schools go...
News From Around the South 11/25 to 2/1
VIRGINIA: State Adds Fence Around Lee Statue; Removal Not Imminent RICHMOND, Va. — A state agency announced Monday that it was installing fencing around an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond that Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration has been...
American Authoritarianism
Washington — If there was one dominant theme to President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, it was unity. All Americans — left, right and middle-of-the-road — are to come together in unity, Joe said. On his theme of unity, Joe was emphatic, and the media cheered...Obiter Dicta
In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Two ‘Human’Caused’ Fires Found at 16th Century Historic Site Two fires were discovered simultaneously at a North Carolina historic site dedicated to England’s first settlements on the continent — and Read More