Who Owns the Gadsden Flag?
The year was 2017, the month was August. America was 241 years old, and totems of its racist past were crumbling. One of the Northwest’s largest tributes to Confederate soldiers — an 8-foot-high marble fountain erected in Helena, Montana, in 1916 — was about to come...
Ain’t We Deplorables Deplorable?
So. A Texas day care center can open now. I said “right now.” Come Friday, May 22, Texas bars and bowling alleys, by gubernatorial writ, are allowed to pry their doors partly — and, yes, cautiously — open. On the same day, and under the same dispensation,...
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NORTH CAROLINA: Civil Rights Group Claims Victory in Silent Sam Case CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law declared victory in a Silent Sam case today after an Orange County Superior Court dismissed the controversial lawsuit...
Fauci v. Trump — Who’s Right?
“We have met the moment and we have prevailed,” said President Donald Trump Monday, as he supported the opening of the U.S. economy before the shutdown plunges us into a deep and lasting depression. Tuesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading...
The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Lincoln End Slavery
Abraham Lincoln needed votes. In January of 1864, as the Civil War raged on, the president was gearing up for a re-election campaign, believing his loss was imminent. But in order to unify the shattered pieces of the nation and abolish slavery, he needed four more...Obiter Dicta
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