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In Wake of Tucson, Media Ignores Rep. Larry McDonald

In the midst of one American tragedy, another one is being ignored. Following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of...

Christian Gomez January 25, 2011

Global Warming Brought Down the Roman Empire?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 24, 2011

If English historian Edward Gibbon were alive today, he might have to add a paragraph or two to his seminal six-volume History of...

A Renewed Myth That The John Birch Society Incited Kennedy Assassination

Thomas R. Eddlem January 21, 2011

The Warren Commission concluded back in 1964 that it had "no evidence that the extreme views expressed toward President Kennedy by some rightwing groups...

Robert E. Lee: A Man Without a Country for 110 Years

Bob Adelmann January 19, 2011

Several states officially recognize and celebrate January 19 as Robert E. Lee’s birthday, including the state of Virginia as part of Jackson-Lee Day...

The Four-hundredth Anniversary of the King James Bible

Laurence M. Vance January 14, 2011

Before the English founded Jamestown in the Virginia Colony on May 14, 1607, work had already begun on what has been called “the...

What Is the Essence of American Liberty?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 1, 2011

In the art and science of perfumery, it is understood that a precise admixture of the right oils makes the perfect perfume. The...

The War Prayer

December 30, 2010

This short story by Mark Twain was published posthumously in 1923. ...

Mark Twain’s Tabooed Talk

Jack Kenny December 30, 2010

It is sometimes said regretfully that many Americans today get their “slant” on the news from TV’s late-night comedians. But today’s “baby boomers”...

100th Birthday of the Karl Marx of Arab Socialism

Bruce Walker December 28, 2010

Though the majority of Americans have never heard of him, one hundred years ago a key figure in Islamic socialism was born in...

Johannes Kepler: Father of Celestial Mechanics

Rebecca Terrell December 27, 2010

December 27 marks the birthday of the Father of Celestial Mechanics, Johannes Kepler. Born in 1571, he went on to become one of...

They Still Hate Senator McCarthy

Bruce Walker December 16, 2010

The Southern Poverty Legal Center, which might be interested in innocent Americans enduring state-sponsored sexual harassment in airports or the coercion on college...