Today marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln.Most Americans regard Lincoln almost mythically as a president universally admired, universally loved.This is baloney, of course. Lincoln was beloved, for sure; but his enemies, including a great many residents of Fayette County, ...
“I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We have come to take our country back.”Sen. Randal Howard "Rand" Paul, Republican candidate for presidentKentuckyĢƵ junior U.S. Senator wants to “take our country back.”Republicans are always wanting to ...
The news item — the story of a death, actually — caused me to shiver.Oh, not right away. I had never heard of Alois Brunner — dead in Damascus, Syria, probably as long as four years ago.But then I read further, and BrunnerĢƵ story made my skin crawl. It hit close to home.The story was ...