In response to the coronavirus pandemic that has swept the nation and world, catching many nations, including the United States, totally unprepared, President Trump recently invoked the Defense Production Act. It allows the government to make contracts with industries that essentially force ...
Arguably the least known of the great songs Johnny Cash wrote and sang is “Ragged Old Flag,” released this week (April 5) in 1974.Cash wrote the song during the heyday of the anti-Vietnam War movement when flag burning was commonplace, which angered him because he visited Vietnam where ...
<em>“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.” – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”</em>When Walt Whitman, then a complete nobody, self-published a book of poems titled Leaves of Grass in 1855, few outside his friends and family knew about ...
John C. Calhoun, arguably South Carolina’s most famous politician, died this week (March 31) in 1850. If there was ever a man whose desire for the presidency was in inverse proportion to his deserving of it, it was Calhoun.In the early 19th century, Calhoun was a rising political star, ...
Regular readers know that James Madison, born this week (March 16) in 1751, is my favorite Founding Father, and easily the most underrated of those visionaries who created our government and nation. He was chiefly responsible for creating both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, although ...
This week (March 13) in 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with a preliminary plan, code-named Operation Northwoods, to conduct covert operations with the goal of invading Cuba and eliminating its dictator, Fidel Castro, who had allied Cuba with the ...
