Is ‘Speculation’ News?
At the dawn of 2017, let us offer a philosophical question for the news media. If the scourge of the new year is “fake news,” should we not concede that it’s not news to speculate about what will happen after a news event? The problem is, without...
Democrats Extinct in the South
Consider the political realignment of the South from blue to red complete. Kentucky Democrats lost control of the state house they had held on to for nearly a century — and with it, the party’s last Southern legislative chamber. The development was a year in the...
Can Trump, Putin Avoid Cold War II?
In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland’s Eastern shore. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S. diplomats would be...
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VIRGINIA: Law Allows For Expansion of Historic Civil War Battlefield PETERSBURGv, a. — Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield, a climactic site in the collapse of the Confederacy in the Civil War, has been cleared for a huge expansion under a new law...
How Civil War Laws Helped Trump
Donald Trump won the presidential election as millions of people were prevented from voting this year by rules that root back to the Civil War and were made to maintain white male political dominance. About 6.1 million people who were convicted of breaking laws could...Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More