Melodrama or Reality?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] In the spring of 1519, the Aztec god-king Montezuma II received word that strange, marvelous creatures had […]
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] In the spring of 1519, the Aztec god-king Montezuma II received word that strange, marvelous creatures had […]
Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now governor of California, heard a still, small voice the other night. The voice said, “Gavin, the intentional killing […]
Did you hear that Phil Robertson has a new book out? Yes, the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch, author of Happy Happy Happy, UnPHILtered, and (in a […]
Mean People Suck.” I first saw that bumper-sticker slogan almost 20 years ago, pinned to the office bulletin board at the newspaper where I worked. […]
President Trump is down but not out,” says the headline in the New York Post. Beneath it, columnist Michael Goodwin writes that Trump is “battered, […]
Sister Souljah had a point. Younger readers may have some trouble figuring out who Sister Souljah was, or what her point might have been. We’ll […]
Americans these days are nothing if not angry, but are we angry at the right people? Consider the recent set-to between President Donald Trump and […]
One night in New York City, a young college student named Seth Barkas was accosted by two teenagers pretending to be panhandlers but actually intent […]
The English language has its peculiarities. Two English words that appear to be opposites to one another can instead be synonyms. If someone is telling […]
Before there was Donald Trump, there was George Steinbrenner. In the eyes of his fellow New Yorkers and of many others around the country, no […]
Among conservatives, just about everyone hopes to see Brett Kavanaugh join Neil Gorsuch on the United States Supreme Court. And we all have our little […]
Every day of the week, marriage counselors work with unhappy couples whose relationships have been soured by unresolved grievances. In such cases, the counselor’s job […]
Did you hear about how Facebook censored a passage from the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech”? The Vindicator, a small daily newspaper in Liberty, […]
A young man is thrown into a jail cell full of haggard prisoners. They are sitting on benches around a central bucket that serves as […]
Queens, New York, 1964: Barmaid Kitty Genovese was walking home from work on the night shift when Winston Moseley, who had gone prowling for a […]
Guess who spoke these words: I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit […]
In 1824, a retired James Madison was corresponding with the writer Henry Lee IV, half-brother of Robert E. Lee and son of the Revolutionary War […]
When choreographer Agnes DeMille was interviewed for a documentary about her famous uncle Cecil B., she had a wonderful story to tell about the “Hays […]
A young woman buttonholes a musician with whom she’s recently had a one-night stand—“a stupid experiment,” as she later calls it. She has to remind […]
I know an elderly gentleman in San Antonio who, though he has spent decades working in America as a surveyor and cartographer, has never lost […]