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  • Melting Down Art and History

    Melting Down Art and History0

    After the Civil War, former North Carolina governor Zeb Vance became a U.S. senator. His Northern colleagues enjoyed his affable nature and sense of humor, and some of them invited him to Massachusetts during a break in government business. While there, Vance attended a party, and eventually required a visit to the outhouse, where his

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  • Blood On Their Hands: Some Government Policies Are Killing Americans

    Blood On Their Hands: Some Government Policies Are Killing Americans0

    The policies of some of our bureaucrats and elected officials are killing or harming American citizens. Their intentions may be good—that point is debatable—but the results are devastating.            The COVID-19 Pandemic. Remember when former Governor Andrew Cuomo shoved COVID patients into nursing homes? Thousands died. No one was punished for

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  • We’re All on This Train Together

    We’re All on This Train Together0

    “All aboard!”            North Carolina writer Anna Raglan was delighted to find that Amtrak’s conductors still called out these words to passengers before departing the station. In her new travelogue The Train From Greenville, Raglan, a kind and wise friend of mine, describes a journey she made by rail from Greenville,

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  • A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness

    A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness0

    We’ve gone through the craziest two years I’ve ever seen. In no particular order, we’ve suffered from lockdowns and masks thanks to a virus and an overbearing government. The last presidential election brought chaos and accusations of fraud. We’ve had riots in cities, urban crime has skyrocketed, there were attempts to “defund the police,” and

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