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Trump and the siege of Washington

If you’re reading this 100 years from now and you want to know whether the Siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was as bad as the history books say, you should know this: it was.Five people died – one was shot to death, a police officer was fatally injured, and three others succumbed to ...

Democracy, still

Like so many of you, I remember what I was doing when I first heard that insurgents had stormed our nationĢƵ Capitol.It was about 2 p.m., and I was on the phone with my son Andy as C-SPAN played in the background. He knew I’d be following along as both houses of Congress prepared to certify ...

Lying: The new way of communicating in America

Bold-faced lies? Bald-faced lies? Bare-faced lies? When did it become OK to lie? And when did lies become the truth and truth become so obfuscated that differentiation between truth and lies blurred so significantly we simply chose the lie we liked the best or felt most comfortable embracing? ...

Tax probes need to happen

Hunter Biden says his tax affairs are under investigation. The president-electĢƵ son says he is “confident” the probe by the U.S. attorneyĢƵ office in Delaware will find no wrongdoing.Fine. We shall see.A few things to unpack here. First, inquiries into possible tax fraud should be ...

Christmas traditions practiced across the world

Do You Know at LibrarySpot.com, more than 160 countries celebrate Christmas? A few countries refer to the holiday as Family Day, including Angola and Uruguay. Some countries – like Jordan and Pakistan – designate Dec. 25 as an official holiday only for Christians.There are a myriad of ...

So long, 2020

Typically, ending a year can be either a sad or a happy experience for us. However, I have never felt the way I do about ending this year. Keep in mind, I’ve had plenty of years where I’ve had to say goodbye to friends and loved ones who moved away, or worse, had passed away, to jobs that I ...