Born in 1912, Jackie Mitchell was on a baseball diamond learning how to play baseball after barely learning to walk.Her father, Joseph Mitchell, taught her the basics – baserunning, fielding, hitting, throwing – but it was the Mitchell family’s next door neighbor, Dazzy Vance, who taught ...
Daniel Krauthammer, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer, both edited and wrote a preface to “The Point of it All,” a collection of his father’s writings that perfectly captures Charles Krauthammer’s (and my) longstanding belief that America today suffers ...
Sometimes the spirit of Christmas is found in the unlikeliest of places, such as in the heart of one of those so-called “fat cat” rich guys who allegedly exploit their workers at every opportunity.Every Christmas for years the (then) giant retail and catalogue company, Montgomery Ward, gave ...
In 1960, three sisters, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabel-Reyes – known as the Mirabal sisters – who had clandestinely worked against the iron-fisted dictatorship of the Dominican Republic by Rafael Trujillo – better known as “El Jefe” – were assassinated on Trujillo’s ...
The Founding Fathers insisted the impeachment process be conducted by the government’s most political branch, Congress, because deciding whether or not to remove the president from office should be a political one. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 65, impeachable offenses are “an ...
This week (Dec. 8), in 1941, in the wake of the devastating Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and the American people in what is now called his “Day of Infamy” speech.The final ...
