Some years ago I was sitting at a research table at the state archives in Harrisburg. I had filled out a research slip for something or other when I was handed (by mistake) a letter-size envelope containing a piece of canvas 鈥� a sample for those in state government in 1861 who bought tents ...
Shooting someone to death in the parking lot of a strip mall is a heinous act.It鈥檚 also a very public act. And that being the case, the public has a right to know the identity of suspects and why they are being held.That didn鈥檛 happen, however, following the murder of Boyke Budiarachman in ...
If you search for 鈥渟afe space鈥� on the Foxnews.com website you鈥檒l get over 46,000 results. All of them aren鈥檛 about those woke snowflakes who need trigger warnings and cry rooms. But a whole lot of them are.For instance, in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump鈥檚 inauguration, Tucker ...
鈥淚 became, at 10 years old, a little laboring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.鈥漈hus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.Of course, Dickens was a crusader against the exploitation of children. The edge is taken off the depictions of the ...
Sometimes in politics, which currently saturates everything, worse is better. When a political craze based on a bad idea achieves a critical mass, one wants it to be undone by ridiculous excess. Consider the movement to scrub from the English language and the rest of life everything that anyone ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> First responders are to be commended for their efforts and teamwork in the wake of last week鈥檚 windstorm that ripped through the area, damaging buildings, toppling trees and power lines and leaving more than 22,600 without power for hours, ...
