In 1776 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence and thus began a war with Britain. When the war was concluded in 1783 American casualties would number 25,000 dead and 25,000 wounded. Those 50,000 casualties paid the price so that a new nation, founded on the...
Forty years ago there was a great show on NBC called Hill Street Blues. It was an early player in the gritty police drama genre, a-la The Wire or Bosch. The ensemble show was led by Daniel J. Travanti playing Capt. Frank Furillo and his love interest, the stunning...
Last week Dan Bongino talked about the pointlessness of arguing with the left. He said something like “We think the left are simply people with bad ideas while the left thinks we are simply bad people…” He went on to say that while pointless in terms of trying to...
America’s racist!!! One would think, if America is to be considered a racist country, we’d want to know the definition of the word. And who better to get that definition from but a giant of the anti-racist movement, Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How to Be an...
In his brilliant book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley makes the case that coal saved Britain in the 19th century just as the Industrial Revolution was picking up steam. A similar argument could be made for oil in the United States in the...
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