We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
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Editor’s Note: this was originally written in 2004, but seems pertinent today. It’s a documented, irrefutable fact that everyone who works in a building with elevators believes them to be the
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This was originally written in late 2013. It was a response to another’s moving eulogy for a lost friend. Unfortunately, the man who wrote it passed away a couple of years ago,
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The next time some idiot says that, you need to slap him. The moron that came up with that sure as hell never heard of John Henry or Casey Jones, either one.
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In this silly season of American politics, a common conversation is held in barbershops and forums, in person and on the web: Who was the greatest of all American presidents? In my
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In the Winter of 1861-62, the folks in Memphis were busy building two new Confederate rams, the Tennessee and the Arkansas. In April of ’62, the Arkansas was moved up the Yazoo
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Editor’s Note: The following was written by Daniel Bedinger Lucas. He lived from 1836 to 1909. I believe it needs no further introduction. In the Land Where We Were Dreaming Fair
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Editor’s Note: This article refers to the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy, which you can read about here. Note that the use of “Alpha,” and the other designations, is in this context. I see
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Today I wish to discuss an oddity of history and marvel of engineering. She was the largest of her kind, terrifyingly effective and at the same time… outrageously useless. Among the 1,420
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By now you’ve heard it many times… the claim that Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any other president. The claim is absurd on its face… and it’s one that anyone living
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We rolled into Petal, Mississippi, a small suburb of Hattiesburg, at 8am. We had 30 volunteers in a caravan of trucks and SUVs. We brought about 15 chainsaws and three tractors. If
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