Forget LeBron James. Forget Michael Jordan. Forget Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. The best basketball player ever to play in the National Basketball Association never averaged 20 points a game, although he did average an amazing 22.5 rebounds a game. The best basketball player ever won 11 championships, eight of them in a row and …
I’m a sucker for clickbait. Show me a list on Facebook and there’s a better than even chance I’ll waste some time looking it over. Some of them are ridiculous, posted by people who think the world started when they were born. Imagine a list of the top 40 actors ever where Tom Hanks and …
It was 54 years ago today that Robert F. Kennedy died, one of the few assassinations that truly changed history. It doesn’t matter who killed him or why, but Kennedy’s death gave us Richard Nixon as president, five more years of the Vietnam War and probably even the horror of Ronald Reagan and his aftermath. …
Vive la France. Let’s see. You’ve got a country where the president isn’t all that popular, where the economy is struggling, where there’s an opposition candidate who wants to end immigration and who loves Vladimir Putin. Sound familiar? In our country, you get Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan and Klan Mom, just to name …
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root …” Three weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the Emmitt Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making it a federal hate crime to cause someone’s death or serious bodily injury by hanging or other actions. The bill was named for one …
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of …
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For all we can tell from the photo above, the massive crowd was attending a huge patriotic rally at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City. The figure in the center is a great American, George Washington, and the banners mention “FREE AMERICANS” and “CHRISTIAN AMERICA.” The second one starts to give away …
When I was in my early teens, I wasn’t nearly as interested in World War II as I could have been. Correct that — should have been. My dad was a veteran infantryman in the Army and my birth father was a sonarman in the Navy. Both were young veterans. Norman Rappaport was 19 when …
“When you’re a star, you can do whatever you want.” If the quote sounds familiar, but you can’t quite place it, it’s the important part of Donald Trump’s famous “grab ’em by the pussy” quote, the one that proved to us that when conservative voters say character matters, they’re lying. Has there ever been a …
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Does anybody south of Scarborough remember the Maine? I would be willing to bet it’s been a hundred years since anybody outside of Texas remembered the Alamo. What’s the point, anyway? Remember the Alamo by beating up a Mexican? There really needs to be an expiration date on these things, especially since they all seem …
