During a Black Lives Matter event a few years ago, in a live flash on cable TV, an enraged mother yanked her hoody-wearing son out of the protest and beat him with all her might.  He stepped aside, tried to

A government that engages in censorship gives that government “a license for every atrocity.” –   Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In a hearing in the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, those paying attention were given

A couple of weeks ago, a chimpanzee – Vanilla –  that had been caged in darkness her entire life, saw sunlight for the first time.  In what amounted to a nanosecond, for those who saw it, the whole notion of

“This land is stolen land and black people are still not free.”  Cori Bush, Congresswoman from Missouri, regarding Independence Day, July 4, 2023. This is one of those public statements that represents the genius of the 1st Amendment to the

In commemorating the Declaration of Independence, a unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America, an action of the second continental congress, July 4, 1776, it might be helpful to remember that every event leading up to it had

A professor of history at Harvard has written an 800-page history of the United States using this type of language at the end:  “[C]onservatives. . .make bonfires of rage: they. . . courted the popular will by demolishing the idea