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Dr. Jocelyn Elders endured a lot on her rise to becoming the first African American to be appointed Surgeon General of the United States.
She was born in 1933, the daughter of a poor sharecropper in a segregated community in rural Arkansas. As a...
Former Harvard professor Timothy Leary became a worldwide celebrity in the 1960s, as the guru of LSD and other psychedelic drugs and coiner of the Hippie slogan: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
In 1969, Leary apparently figured that if actor...
We’ve heard a lot about angry voters this past year. Some media pundits make it sound like it’s a new phenomenon.
But, of course, it’s not.
In recent stories about angry voters — and in comments posted on websites by those angry voters...
This year, Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday, November 26th – which happens to be its anniversary.
Two-hundred and twenty years ago, President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789 to be our country’s first official national...
Every once in a while, there’s a news story about somebody who won millions in a lottery and ended up being miserable as a result.
I remember one from a few years ago that sounded like a Shakespearean tragedy.
It was about a Pennsylvania man,...
