How to Fight Back
1789: “Let them eat cake!”— Marie Antionette2025: “Let them seek help from Elon!”— the GOPThe president’s speech last night was hardly presidential. If there was a practical, sensible suggestion or...
View ArticleI fear for US/Canada/Greenland/Denmark
I’m a dual US/Canadian born in another country altogether. This story by ex-CIA/military Malcolm Nance has me worried. It looks like Trump is bent and bound to expand the empire by seizing Greenland...
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Why conservatives are obsessed with erasing history—except the Confederacy
The Trump administration has spent the last month on a tear, using President Donald Trump’s newfound power in multiple departments and agencies for a goal that seems bewildering at first glance:...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 4/2/25: Someday We Have To End This
160 years ago today the Civil War ended. The shooting part, anyway.At dawn on April 9, 1865, the Confederate Second Corps under Major General John B. Gordon attacked Sheridan's cavalry and quickly...
View Article160 Years Ago Today: Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
A brief note of remembrance for a significant day in United States history — and its relevance to us today.On April 9, 1865, one hundred and sixty years ago, a quiet and otherwise obscure village in...
View Article160 Years Ago Today: Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
A little after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, John Wilkes Booth crept into the box occupied by US President Abraham Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and two...
View ArticleGulag for Hire
“No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . .” US Constitution, Amendment...
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