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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump 132 years ago today, the Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club with the help of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger, the first person ever paid to play football. Heffelfinger, the son of…
In 2020, 100 years after the massacre, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed November 2 to be “Ocoee Massacre Remembrance Day.” Let us always remember to never forget. The Ocoee massacre was a white mob attack on African-American residents in northern Ocoee, Florida, which occurred on November 2, 1920, the day of the U.S. presidential election. The town is in Orange County near Orlando….
Many, many Americans – and even some of your immigrants – come up to me on the street with tears streaming across their cheeks and down their chins and ask – very strongly – ‘Sir, should we really NOT believe what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears?’ Intimates chewing the fat…
“Be calm as I and my family are. We are not hurt and remember that if anything happens to me, there will be others to take my place” – Dr. M.L. King Jr., that same year, after his own home was bombed. Home of Another Bus Boycott Supporter Bombed On the night of August 25,…
You can easily imagine Barker Ajax as a ranch hand, but a farmer? Well, it’s possible. Might’ve been in the early 1990s, the old west of the past century. Turns out he was hired primarily to keep felonious pests and inquisitive varmints away from the cash crop. Wrangle dogs and corral various critters. This he…
We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding: We are going to begin to act, beginning today. The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away…
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes…
“For those who are uncomfortable with firearms or who are too young for them or who just want a ‘silent’ option to take down prey or use as a self-defense weapon in a pinch, a blowgun may prove to be an acceptable compromise.“ The old man was confident Florida was not fit for human habitation….
True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law. – Ronald Reagan (Republican) If Jon Stewart & Stephen King collaborated… ‘This is the Final Battle’ Republicans, as you’d imagine, are taking the news very well. As is often the case these days, GOP reactions…
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel White Mob in Oklahoma Abducts and Lynches Laura Nelson and Her Young Son On May 24, 1911, shortly…