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A Brief History On August 11, 2017, Neo-Nazi, KKK, and extraneous white supremacists with a properly issued parade permit marched in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Virginia state hero General Robert E. Lee.  Counter protesters with no such permit showed up en masse and confronted, even attacked, the original protesters and a riot ensued, resulting in 3 deaths and numerous injuries. Digging Deeper In the most infamous moment of the weekend, a white supremacist 20 year old man from Kentucky, recently moved to Ohio, drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counter protesters, striking…

A Brief History On August 14, 2017, President Donald Trump of the United States and Dictator for Life Kim Jong Un of North Korea have been engaging in a war of words, threatening each other’s country with one sort of hyperbolic annihilation or another.  Both countries have large military forces and nuclear weapons, so these threats are frightening.  Should they be?  What is the likelihood of military confrontation, and what would that confrontation be? Digging Deeper On August 14, 2017, President Donald Trump of the United States and Dictator for Life Kim Jong Un of North Korea have been engaging…

A Brief History On August 13, 1779, a combined US Naval and ground expeditionary force was defeated after a 3 week campaign known as The Penobscot Expedition, the worst defeat in US Navy history until the surprise attack against Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Digging Deeper During the American Revolutionary War, the British had seized the mid-coastal region of Maine and declared it to be “New Ireland,” and the fledgling American government sought to reclaim this area from the British.  A large expedition was assembled, including 19 warships, 25 smaller auxiliary craft, and 1000 ground troops, consisting of Colonial…

A Brief History On August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan said perhaps the stupidest lines of his Presidency, which we commemorated in our August 11 article, “10 Incredibly Stupid Things Said by Politicians”.  Today, we list another 10 dumb statements by the morons that are allegedly leading us through the wilderness.  As moronic as the statements by Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush were on a regular basis, our current President, Donald J. Trump, is in a class by himself, and thus dominates this year’s edition of idiotic statements by politicians. Please note that some of the quotations…

A Brief History On August 10, 1977, David Berkowitz, known popularly as “Son of Sam,” a serial killer in New York, was arrested for murders in the New York area over the past year.  It so happens that Berkowitz was a Postal worker, an occupation that has become synonymous in the United States with frustration and exploding rage.  Here we list 5 Times People “Went Postal!” with those “people” being postal employees.  (There have been at least 23 Postal and parcel service related shootings since 1975 in the US, not including Berkowitz.) Digging Deeper 1. David Berkowitz, 1977.  This serial killer…