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Veteran Ancestors
With Memorial Day upon us, I thought I’d list a few of my ancestors who served in the military. The following is not exhaustive as I haven’t found records for many ancestors, yet. Some may have served...
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course
Republished and updated in honor of Memorial Day and the black union soldiers we should not forget —DOVA pencil drawing and a grainy photo in the Library of Congress are all that is left of the...
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Just Another Beggar - what is duty?
“The captain told us to ford a river, That's how it all begun. We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy, But the big fool said to push on.” Pete Seeger 1967Another blabbering of wordsSome mean nothingBut...
View ArticleRepublicans peddle grotesque abortion-slavery comparison
In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution—no national tragedy—compares to the American sin of chattel slavery. Codified in the...
View ArticleRIGHT-WING CIVIL WAR: The Spectre of "David Frenchism" Sparks Right-Wing War...
The whole tempest in a teapot reminds me of an anecdote from the 1970s about the long time Texas liberal news magazine, The Texas Observer. For the longest time TO had been edited by Kaye Northcutt...
View ArticleOregon GOP Senator Threatens Armed Resistance Over Climate Bill; Calls...
UPDATED: SEE BELOWIn another demonstration that Republicans will not permit Democrats to govern and are in militant denial of climate change, GOP State Senators in Oregon have gone into hiding to...
View ArticleYour American Taxpayer Dollars at Work in a Foreign Land
So I have previously, months ago, been invited to a wedding here in Kathmandu. The sister of the groom is a former student of mine from 2007 at Tansen Nursing School; her family won the Diversity Visa...
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Tennessee's governor wishes you a happy Nathan Bedford Forrest Day tomorrow
xâÂÂGov. Bill Lee has proclaimed Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee, a day of observation to honor the former Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader whose bust is on...
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He sunk the rebel rag, my boys, Hurrah for Robert Smalls!
Last month I gleefully reported that Jeff Davis Peak in Nevada, which hosts the last remaining glacier in that state, and in whose shadow we find the oldest single organism on Earth, was officially...
View ArticleTime to begin a thoughts and prayers circle as fourth NRA board member resigns
For the last couple of years, professional sport shooter and gun rights advocate Julie Golob has sat on the board of the NRA. On Monday she announced that she would be resigning from her position...
View ArticleThat makes five: NRA implodes as a fifth board member resigns
On Monday, saying he did so with “a heavy heart,” and “effective immediately,” NRA board member Richard Childress resigned from the Second Amendment organization. Childress becomes the fifth...
View ArticleReport: NRA chief flew his family in private luxury jet, billed the gun...
The ongoing civil war between the NRA and its former money backers and PR firm Ackerman McQueen continues to heat up. The Wall Street Journal reports that it looks like NRA money was used to charter...
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Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile: Help our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas...
#DorianStrongCommentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver VelezWatching the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Hubert Minnis, in press conferences — before and during Hurricane Dorian wreaking its havoc on...
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Hidden History: The Confederate Attack on New York City
When the Civil War turned against the Confederates in 1864, they began to desperately search for ways to “take the war to the north”, both to exact a measure of revenge for William T Sherman's...
View ArticleImpeachment – Pence – Purdue – Drunk Drivers and Father Time
Like 9/11, what we thought could never happen in America is happening again, but in 2019, administered by a pretend president and his Acting government, conniving with the foreign power determined to...
View ArticleRadio host Larson platforms a far-right veteran's plan to murder antifascists...
Online threats by right-wing extremists to attack antifascists and embark on a “civil war” against “the left,” particularly on YouTube and social media, have become as common as fleas. What isn’t so...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - More Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven't Busted 9/24/19
Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause". This...
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A person yearning for irreparable destruction has the launch codes
I read somewhere that some more sensible people around Richard Nixon, seeing him go crazy toward the end, created some kind of buffer between him and the nuclear launch codes to prevent him from...
View ArticleRead This Blog, or I Shall Declare Civil War Upon You
Shit, as the poet once said, has gotten real. I feel like I need to triple my typing speed just to keep up with everything. The news is moving so fucking fast right now, I must ask your forgiveness in...
View ArticleCan Trump's Presidency Survive? Can we?
It is often said rather poetically, that “the darkest hours, are just before dawn.” You’d have to go back to the Vietnam War, MLK’s assassination, Cuban Missile Crisis or the McCarthy era for the last...
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