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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a brief, none-too-flattering moment in the national spotlight during his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Some of the descriptors used in reference to DeSantis were 鈥渁rrogant,鈥 鈥渁wkward,鈥 鈥渂elligerent,鈥 and ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: For more than 60 years, personnel in the U.S. military could be discharged for engaging in consensual gay sex, and not only be deprived of opportunities if they had hoped to make military service their careers, but also deprived of benefits upon their retirement. It鈥檚 not known how ...

In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda vs. Arizona that criminal defendants were entitled to say nothing so as to not incriminate themselves, and they were also entitled to an attorney. Not too long after, television viewers became familiar with what came to be called the Miranda ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: If you came of age well before the dawn of social media, you鈥檙e likely to think of sites like Facebook as a useful way to stay in touch with old friends or strike up new friendships with people who share your interests. But some public health officials have been arguing that there ...

What do Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Guilani, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Dole, John McCain, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Dave McCormick and Kari Lake all have in common? All prominent Republicans, sure. But all of them, at one point or another, ...

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Cheers: James Lawson was born in 1928, the same year as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was an important ally of King鈥檚 in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike King, who was cut down when he was just 39, Lawson was able to live a long life and see the changes ...