It won’t be released until about this time next year–December 15, 2015–but a trailer has been released for Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Returns. The movie will pick up the story of the galaxy far, far away beginning 30 years AFTER Return of the
It won’t be released until about this time next year–December 15, 2015–but a trailer has been released for Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Returns. The movie will pick up the story of the galaxy far, far away beginning 30 years AFTER Return of the
An essay in the Washington Post about the non-spontaneous riots in Ferguson, Missouri, included a digression on another kind of uprising: the “party riot,” what some college students do when they lose or win a big game or what breaks out at Mardi Gras or
Japan, where people enjoy a good cut of whale, is pushing back against international anti-whaling rules, which are allegedly nothing more than “eco-imperialism.” According to the Japanese, it would be as if people in India who believe cattle are sacred would impose punishments on nations
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carla Fiorina is starting a run for the Republican presidential nomination. She is pro-life, fiscally-conservative, and of the female persuasion. Then again, she has never held public office and her tenure at Hewlett-Packard was not completely successful. Still, maybe she could give
Folklorist Jack Santino observes that Thanksgiving is pretty much the only national holiday that hasn’t shifted its focus to children. In fact, they are often shunted off to the “kids’ table.” The emphasis instead is on grandparents, patriarchs and matriarchs, family traditions going back for
Why has America, among all the world’s nations, always been so prosperous? Lots of reasons. But, according to a new book, it begins with our rivers. (more…)
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perch’d on some dead Tree near the
Thanksgiving Proclamation Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789 By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. (more…)
Very often, in the early days of our nation, Congress would call for a day of “fasting, humiliation, and prayer.” (Google the phrase and compare the resolutions from the Continental Congress through Lincoln.) This was the kind of resolution that led to the holiday of
Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to media accounts, the teenager was unarmed and shot from a distance, suggesting an egregious case of police brutality. That’s what it seemed like even to conservatives like Rand Paul and
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