Texas Republicans were already fretting about slipping support with voters of color. Then Bo French got on X.The Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner posted a photo of a...
The American Heritage Dictionary notes: “The word taboo first appears in English in the journals of Captain James Cook. ... In 1777, Cook wrote that the word ‘taboo ... has a very comprehensive meaning; but, in general, signifies that a thing is forbidden. ... When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo.’ Cook was in Tonga at the time, and so it is the Tongan form 'tabu' that is the source of the English word 'taboo.' However, words related to Tongan tabu are found in other Polynesian languages, such as Maori 'tapu' and Hawaiian 'kapu.' (In the history of Hawaiian, the original Polynesian t-sound has regularly changed to a k-sound.)" We therefore learn that this native Hawaiian word “kapu” would have been the first version of our term “taboo” used in what is now American territory.
There are generations of children for whom our first memories are a composite of Mom and Dad, Bert and Ernie, Grandma and Grandpa, and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. To the many for whom Sesame Street was as much a fabric of our infancies as were highchairs and strollers, last week’s death of Lloyd Morrisett, one of the two founders of the children’s television production company that gave birth to one of the most widely watched and longest-running shows in television history, hits close to home.
If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.
The wildly innovative musician Frank Zappa had some weird notions about drinking — not that it should come as a surprise that Zappa had some weird notions about any particular thing.
Currently, Americans aren’t reproducing at the replacement rate. So, some level of immigration will be needed in order to prevent a disastrous population implosion.
If it is true that Turkey has placed a $500,000 bounty on basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom, the United States should impose strong sanctions against Turkey.
Since China refuses to cooperate with any outside investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s possible role in the creation of COVID, we will never know for sure if the virus did originate from the lab and what possible role EcoHealth Alliance played in funding their research.
Vice President Kamala Harris is tired of everybody not taking action on gun control. According to Harris, what we must do is take action, and we do that by... taking action.
It is hard to tell who should be the most embarrassed: President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, the American Bar Association, or Spokane Superior Court Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren.
Alec Baldwin is guilty of being a misogynistic, homophobic phony who refuses to take a whit of responsibility for the death of "Rust" cinematographer...
INTEL CHIEF STONEWALLS CONGRESS ON BIDEN AND TRUMP DOCUMENTS. What is the most important similarity of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump classified documents investigations? Of course, there is the simple fact that both men, the current and former presidents, are accused of mishandling classified information. But just as critical, from the public's perspective, is this: We don't know what that information was. We don't know if the classified material each allegedly mishandled involved the nation's most sensitive and carefully guarded secrets, secrets that would do grave damage to national security if revealed, or whether it was minor stuff that should never have been classified in the first place.
