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On Nov. 11, 1918, Allied nations and Germany signed an armistice to officially end World War 1. There is no one alive today to thank for their service in this war. The last known U.S. veteran of World War I was Frank Buckles who died Feb. 27, 2011, at the of 110.
Read moreIt’s Wednesday afternoon. We’d all hoped to know the results of the presidential election yesterday; not gonna happen.
Read moreA federal judge has now issued what Politico calls “a highly detailed order” concerning USPS operations and
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Oklahoma and the nation lost a great citizen last week, H. Jerrell Chesney of Shawnee.
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This year’s presidential campaigns are causing many people to have “aha” moments that defy partisan stereotypes.
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I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73 %, or 3,446, were black people, and 27 % , or 1,297, were white people. Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 blacks lynched. By the 1940s, occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
Read moreHell froze over the week before the ice storm. That’s when a friend, and brother-from-another mother, called to say Governor Stitt turned him into a Democrat.
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He didn’t hang up on me. Instead, the man I’d always considered to be to the right of Atilla the Hun admitted he’d voted for a Democrat in his younger years.
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