by Jim Heath | Oct 30, 2018 | Headlines, History
It probably couldn’t have had a more fitting ending than if it had been scripted for the movie The Untouchables. Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Jr. has been murdered behind bars one day after he was transferred to a federal prison in West...
by Jim Heath | Oct 30, 2018 | Headlines, History, Immigration
If you’re born in America, you’re an American. The 14th Amendment to the constitution makes that perfectly clear. But if you’re a president who doesn’t care much for history, that probably means very little. President Trump said today that he...
by Jim Heath | Oct 23, 2018 | Headlines, Health, History, Supreme Court
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, has announced she is withdrawing from public life. A critical swing vote for much of her tenure, O’Connor, an Arizonan who was appointed by President Reagan, announced...
by Jim Heath | Oct 14, 2018 | Entertainment, Headlines, History
We are living through an amazing technological time, and now one of the most popular presidents of the last century is back. Sort of. Those who miss Ronald Reagan’s sunny optimism during the Trump era have a chance to hear from the 40th president himself as a...
by Jim Heath | Oct 13, 2018 | Headlines, History, Trump
Donald Trump may speak highly of Robert E. Lee, but one descendant of the Confederate commander says he is “disheartened” by all the praise. “Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great...
by Jim Heath | Oct 12, 2018 | Headlines, History, Trump
Donald Trump doesn’t have a background in history, nor does he show much interest in learning much about it. And that was evident in Ohio Friday night. The President, offering a bit of a strange history lesson from the Book of Trump, claimed President Abraham...
