Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) recently took to X to celebrate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of more than 600 illegal immigrants. “Promises made, promises kept!” she crowed, shortly after President Donald Trump took office for his second, nonconsecutive term. Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) struck a similar note that day when asked by the media about Trump’s […]
Ulysses S. Grant’s final battle
A strange notice appeared in the March 27, 1867, issue of the Pulaski Citizen newspaper, which usually carried mostly brief news items and short advertisements for attorneys, carpenters, and goods for sale. “The Kuklux Klan will assemble at their usual place of rendezvous . . . [on Tuesday] exactly at the hour of midnight in […]
Could the pandemic hobble the US Postal ...
This year, nearly 35,000 postal workers have missed work due to being quarantined, according to data from the US Postal Service (USPS). That amounts to more than 5.5 percent of the agency’s workforce of 625,000. Some of these employees tested positive for coronavirus; others were removed from work because they were in close proximity to […]
COVID-19 Hampers Trump’s Ability To Camp
President Donald Trump recently scored a major foreign policy victory. His administration brokered a deal to establish full diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The agreement is not a stand-alone deal; it lays the foundation for the two nations to work together on additional shared concerns…. (Read more)
Media madness and the presidential conve...
America is way deep into the presidential race, and the party conventions are fast approaching. Democrats gather in Milwaukee on August 17 and Republican start their whoop-up a week later. In the coming weeks, the media will produce an ocean of purple prose on these Cow Palace jamborees. If the past is prologue, much of […]
Will Trump Be a One-Termer?
“Not long ago, an outsider came to Washington to be president of the United States. He ran as an anti-politician, a man who was not going to play politicians’ tawdry games. Washington was broken and he had solutions to fix it. “His political party, which ruled both chambers of Congress, did not much know him. […]