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by | Mar 14, 2023

WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, there is little thought of such graves being discovered here in America. Yet in recent weeks, archeologists have found their own mass grave in…

by | Aug 21, 2022

One hundred and sixty years ago in early September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, fresh from a stunning victory at Second Bull Run (or Second Manassas), crossed the Potomac River and invaded Maryland,…

by | Apr 6, 2022

April 6-7, 2022, marks the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, a furious struggle fought in southwestern Tennessee. Author Larry J. Daniel called it “the battle that changed the Civil War.” The total American casualties (dead, wounded, captured, and…

by | Oct 4, 2020

This is a brutal political season. In fact, it is getting hard to remember one that wasn’t. But what is new is that the brutality has not really seemed to have much of a break — 2016 has just merged…

by | Jul 9, 2020

As leftists target monuments to everyone from Christopher Columbus to George Washington, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and even all of Mt. Rushmore, I was reminded of a memorial not on their radar. No, I’m not talking about…

by | Jun 23, 2020

“Systemic racism”? I wouldn’t call that America’s present problem. “Systemic ignorance” comes a lot closer to it — a wonderful, and telling, phrase coined by an attorney friend of mine. If you don’t know much of anything, what right have…

by | May 2, 2020

Friday Did you know that I, your humble servant, am the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against our handsome governor, Gavin Newsom, asking a court to say that he exceeded his powers under the California constitution and the U.S. Constitution…

by | Apr 1, 2020

Washington Conscientious conservative that I am, every afternoon I attempt to clear my mind of the day’s claptrap and sprinkle it with a little levity by tuning in to Fox News’ “The Five.” It rarely lets me down. Sometimes I…

by | Nov 5, 2019

The Constitution stipulates that impeachment is confined to a president’s high crime or misdemeanor, not his unpopularity. To date, the House Intelligence Committee is showing Americans nothing more than Trump’s unpopularity among Democrats, which most of the press amplifies with…

by | Oct 8, 2019

Two years after the Civil War ended in 1865, a Republican Congress gained a veto-proof majority in both chambers. They almost immediately began trimming the powers of the executive and judicial branches. First, they replaced President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan…

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