The Dead Do Not Need Trump’s Monument (And Neither Do We)
Another vanity plan from a self absorbed boy-EON Written by Bruce Fanger Posted by Richard Romine Memorial Day is supposed to be the day we shut up long enough to…
Team of Rivals or Not?
Posted by Richard Romine and Paul Hesman. Written by Chris Heges. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals captured one of the great paradoxes of American political leadership: Abraham Lincoln deliberately…
On “White” Jesus
Written by Jim Palmer (Posted elsewhere by Richard Romine) "That picture of Jesus is laughable. The soft-focus white man with manicured hair, glowing skin, and a baby lamb tucked gently…
Religion: The good, the bad and the ugly
Let’s be precise: the absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence. But when a figure is described as confronting the greatest empire of the Late Bronze Age, unleashing…
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948
· The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998, prohibits the U.S. government from propagandizing the American public with information and psychological operations directed at foreign audiences, and…