I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed ...
At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn't seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday of his Task ...
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the ...
How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, ...
Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The TheNations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and ...
Billionaires are getting a bad name. Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America's empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. We see the assault on wealth every day: wealth taxes, blue states are raising their income ...