In early 1861, folks gathered in Brownsville hoping to do their part to stop the slide toward Civil War. They elected a remarkable number of organizational vice presidents 鈥� 28 鈥� and proclaimed their hope to 鈥渄rop partisan feelings and prejudices.鈥滻t didn鈥檛 work.The dispute over ...
The Biden years are underway. Change is the order of the day. It comes in the nick of time.We are badly off track. For what ails us, let me put forward two modest proposals: modesty itself and a dollop of humor.As for humor, what was good enough for Abraham Lincoln (and John Kennedy and Calvin ...
Wednesday鈥檚 inauguration comes at a time of national peril, prompting unparalleled precautions. The capital city will bristle with arms 鈥� troops at street corners and on the National Mall while Capitol Hill, the site of the inaugural, promises to be an armed fortress.The marauding nihilists ...
If you鈥檙e reading this 100 years from now and you want to know whether the Siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was as bad as the history books say, you should know this: it was.Five people died 鈥� one was shot to death, a police officer was fatally injured, and three others succumbed to ...
Millions of Americans 鈥� intelligent, hardworking, and otherwise eminently pragmatic 鈥� believe the unbelievable: that Donald Trump won the 2020 election for president and that Joe Biden lost.They also believe, at least by deduction, that a vast conspiracy was put in place to accomplish this ...
Early in his term, Donald Trump was asked how he became so wealthy. 鈥淚t was entirely involuntary,鈥� he answered. 鈥淢y father was wealthy.鈥漁n another occasion he made light of his upbringing. 鈥淚 had it tough as a kid. My family had two limos. Every day one of the limos had to stay in the ...