It’s official: Juneteenth is a national holiday
Today Pres. Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth, June 19, an official federal holiday. The bill arose from the fact that although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, […]
An inaccurate quote is not a quote at all
This morning I was surfing the internet, looking for images I might use for a Memorial Day post. At the same time, I was watching for appropriate quotations. And I […]
President Ulysses S. Grant was prescient
No doubt there are numerous great quotations from throughout history that I’ve not seen before, but I continue to be surprised by the prescience of Americans almost 150 years ago. […]
Greenwood: I didn’t know what I didn’t know
Many of you probably watched “60 Minutes” this evening and saw the segment about the Greenwood riot and massacre in Tulsa in 1921. And you probably heard about it last […]
Twenty-five years ago
Twenty-five years ago Timothy McVeigh’s bomb ripped the front off the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 innocent men, women, and children. Oklahoma City was and always will […]
The prescience of George Washington
As the public impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump begins, I feel a need to reprint (for the third time) this post from Feb. 20, 2011: “They [political parties] serve to […]
A word of caution to Washington Republicans
As the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s activities is about to go public, here’s a reminder to those Republicans still defending him: Nixon wasn’t actually impeached, but his defenders paid […]
To Kaepernick & Company
(Apologies to my readers, who by now must think this is all I can write about. But I couldn’t resist this.)
