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...
New Book Celebrates The Black Civil War Soldier
As a period of bitter political division gives way to a new administration, and a president who has vowed to be a leader for “all Americans,” we seem to have entered a second era of Reconstruction, when the cracks and splits in our Union are carefully being sutured....
Biden’s America: One Nation or Us Versus Them?
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment. Rereading President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, Pogo’s remark comes to mind....Obiter Dicta
In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by Read More
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