This is the grave of Walt Whitman. Born in 1819 in West Hills, New York, Whitman grew up as part of a large, pretty poor family. He did remember being kissed on the cheek by the Marquis de Lafayette on his victorious tour of America in...
Jimmy Carter's post-presidency has been admirable. His presidency, on the other hand, was pretty much an unmitigated disaster, until literally his last days in office: No one from the government.
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President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Barrett was confirmed to be...
The Supreme Court agreed today to hear a Mississippi case that provides an ideal venue for striking down Roe v. Wade. Gaming this out is pretty straightforward: Thomas, Alito, and.
There was a very long time when I did not watch the NBA. The early 90s Pistons teams brought in a brutality to the game that was hard to watch..
Republican governance--very serious actions taken by very serious people. Just south of Oil City, where Louisiana representative Danny McCormick is from, is the predominantly Black city of Shreveport. Residents there breathe some of the most toxic air in the country. Oil refineries owned by UOP and...
As always, Mississippi leads the nation in laughably ridiculous justifications to halt the will of the electorate. On Friday, Mississippi's conservative-dominated state Supreme Court obliterated the state's entire ballot initiative.
According to Axios, "some Democrats" want to make austerity great again: Some Democrats and economists have begun to worry that President Biden, intent on FDR-like transformation of a wounded America,.
Minsk and Minsk World. By Sudip2118 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19080260 He said "I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima" The sad story of the slow motion demise of the Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk...Much of cyber-policy is about establishing and...
On May 17, 1986, flight attendants organized in the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants gave up on their two-month long strike against Trans World Airlines after its new owner, the.
This, alas, is far from surprising: Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the.