Remember the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the Confederate States still in rebellion in 1863 (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina), but not those in North-South border states. Blacks remained enslaved in...
On a final note, I found it ironic that Georgia’s Governor unveiled a bronze statue of Martin Luther King at the Capital Building in downtown Atlanta last week amidst the protests and outcry nationwide to remove countless Confederate statues. These protesters claim that the statues are racist ...
The 73rd governor of the Old Dominion is being strongly encouraged to resign after pictures from his Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook (1984) emerged showing one person in a black face, another in a KKK robe. Northam, as widely reported, initially admitted being in the photo; but late...
Ok, that's all pretty goofy. But the NR story is responding to something that strikes me as being out-and-out crazy. It's a press release from the office of the governor of New York: Governor Hochul Appoints Dr. Ruth Westheimer New York State's Honorary Ambassador to Loneliness You rem...
Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Enforcement of Indiana Law Against Gender-Affirming Care for Minors June 18, 2023 Earlier this year Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law Senate Enrolled Act 480 (SEA 480), which, effective July 1, 2023, would prohibit health care practitioners from proving gen...
“First of all, Governor, I agree with you, Amber Thurman should still be alive,” Vance said, “and there are a lot of people who should still be alive, and I certainly wish that she was.” - Opening a discussion on gun violence, Vance said, “I think that Governor Wa...
A woman I know grew up in a family where she was told college was “not for her” because of her learning disability. One day hermom and sister said to her—‘it is time to accept your life is over and to find a husband in the town and settle and have kids.” She clearly did ...
[1]On Wednesday, August 11, it was announced that Kathy Hochul will be Cuomo’s successor. Hochui will also become the first female governor of New York. She has been part of the governor’s team since 2014, and much of her work has focused on sexual assault and the #metoo movement...
Thursday, January 12, 2023 - In response to a massacre at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park last year, Illinois has banned the sale of many kinds of semi-automatic guns. The Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, signed the new law that bans the sales of many kinds of weapons...
sammyYes, “of course” has it exactly right. It’s the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from Texans. And in another month Gov. Abbot will be begging the rest of the country to bail his sorry ass out of trouble. I expect something similar from that dimwit Gov. Ivey of Alabama...