At long last, U.S. military installations are playing taps for the ignominious mythology of the Lost Cause, stripping the names of Confederate officers and replacing them with the names of genuine heroes and heroines. It’s about time. Earlier this week, the third-largest Army base was named for Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, the first Latino to become a…
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A few decades ago, firearms fanatics set the nation on a crazed course toward ubiquitous gun ownership, and that course has led us inevitably to where we are now: a society in which there is no safety, no sanctuary, no haven. You may be shot dead or grievously wounded in church, in school, in a…
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MOBILE, Al. —— Find any rankings for the worst public education systems in thenation, and you’ll find a cluster of Deep South states bunched near the bottom. Myhome state of Alabama may not be the worst on the list, but it will be among the 10worst. So will Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.Several years ago,…
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For its sins, Fox News has agreed to pay a staggeringsettlement of $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems,a company clearly defamed by the media company. Toptalent at Fox repeatedly told the lie — a lie within the BigLie that the 2020 election was stolen — that Dominion’svoting machines aided a conspiracy to take votes awayfrom…
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The legacy of George Wallace lives on.The Alabama governor was best known for skillfully pandering tothe racial animosity harbored by so many white voters — not onlyin the South but also, as his presidential campaigns showed,throughout the nation. Wallace was especially savvy aboutexploiting white fear of black crime, claiming he would restore“law and order.”After decades…
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