History doesn’t repeat itself. That would be something. Welcome to Groundhog Day the movie.Still, there are patterns.An example, which might explain the still-unfolding scandals of the Trump administration:The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., argued: “When private interest dominates (the ...
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a point.Last Monday, she stepped to the podium during a White House briefing and she was rightfully upset, because she’d been asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.The owner of the Red Hen restaurant polled her ...
For those of us trying to make sense of American history, the “little mountain” home of Thomas Jefferson is a good place to start.A four-hour-plus car drive from home, Monticello contains the vast contradictions of Jefferson the man and the nation he helped lead to independence. Not for ...
President Trump still wants to build a wall.Instead, he ran head first into a wall built on the collective outrage of people who had enough of him using children snatched from their parent’s arms, as a cheesy political maneuver.Splat!In the end, Trump, the tough guy, blinked; caved; ...
Donald Trump came into office vowing to give new life to U.S. mining. At rallies in Pittsburgh and elsewhere he pledged to boost coal mine employment. He again touched on the subject during a rally last Wednesday evening in Duluth, Minnesota.The results so far have been less than stellar. As of ...
Donald Trump has a new best friend.He flew all the way to Singapore to strike up a bromance with Kim Jong-un – the North Korean tyrant with nuclear weapons at the ready.The entire world watched as Trump and his little buddy shook hands, patted each other on the back, shook hands and patted ...