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Lauren Boebert鈥檚 roaming hands

Lauren Opal Boebert is a Republican firebrand with a never-ending appetite for attention.She represents Colorado鈥檚 3rd Congressional District, with no shortage of provocative political views.Last February, Boebert, and her fellow troubled congressman, George Santos of New York, were among the ...

Mine workers and the UAW strike

On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, 鈥渄emonstration chairman,鈥 and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that year鈥檚 Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers鈥 president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...

Let鈥檚 impeach everybody!

鈥淭oday, I am directing my House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,鈥 announced Republican House Speaker and whipping boy Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday.Despite the ominous sound of that proclamation, it鈥檚 McCarthy鈥檚 political career that鈥檚 in ...

Protecting the founding documents

The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville should stand down

I鈥檓 a Vietnam Vet.As a result of the time I spent in Vietnam, I鈥檝e been deemed 100% disabled.I don鈥檛 have much time for people who disrespect the military.I have no patience for those people who would use the military for their political chicanery.Tommy Tuberville is one of those ...

The fight for the forgotten American

It is often said we should learn from history. We sometimes do learn from history. Sometimes we don鈥檛.Another oft repeated phrase is that the past is never really in the past. (Thank you, William Faulkner.)References to these axioms 鈥 that we should learn from history and that the past ...