I’ve told you about U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel, who earned his combat action ribbon on his first day in the war in Afghanistan. Months of regular combat, and then … Sometimes things happen in the military that seem more like a novel or a Hollywood movie than real life. Mitchel, six other Marines, […]
Many political analysts did not believe Republicans could pass a single, sprawling bill encompassing much of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda using the budget reconciliation process. The majorities in both Houses of Congress were too narrow and the coalitions too diverse to achieve agreement, they argued. But Trump, with major assists from Republican leadership, continued […]
“All happy families are alike,” Tolstoy wrote, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Over the years, the famous opening line to Anna Karenina has gone from being a bold generalization to a dictum. Good writers since Tolstoy seem to have taken the great Russian’s declaration as a challenge to devise interesting […]
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book […]
Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with relish by English stage veteran Tobias Menzies. “I’ve caught up on all the Drive To Survive episodes,” Banning says, and the audience is meant to understand that he […]
As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers who has studied the historiography of the famous events around my grandfather, I’m always eager for the next book on the Hiss-Chambers Case of 1948-1950. After all, in my family, family lore is a matter of public dispute. When my grandfather included Alger Hiss in 1948 congressional testimony about […]
KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish, and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers, and artisans […]
This Fourth of July, consider the fireworks a reminder that freedom isn't granted by government, it's something that must be protected from government.
The madcap exhibition team has made America’s pastime even more American, tapping into the antic spirit of minor-league baseball and the showmanship of the...
