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One of the most essential elements of any country’s statecraft abroad is public diplomacy, often described as people-to-people diplomacy.

Indictment

A key member of AIDS activist group ACT UP and a named plaintiff in the ongoing lawsuit against Gilead and other pharma companies for illegally extending

Much of Wednesday's testimony was punctuated by the playing of surveillance video and audio recordings of police radio transmissions, recordings defendant Henry Aiken appeared to have thorough knowledge of.

Packers "Four Americas"— Thumb-Sucker of the Month.     Of all Ive read this month, the opinion piece that most got me thinking (although  not, in point of fact, actually sucking my thumb while doing so) was George Packers "Four Americas" article in  Atlantic magazine. Whoa there, Derb. Isnt  Atlantic a lefty outlet, with anti-white word-salad merchant Ta-Nehisi Coates on the masthead? And isnt Packer himself left-progressive? Yes and yes. Packers more of an old-line liberal, though ...

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in a new interview compares Donald Trump to the famous American showman P.T. Barnum – and stated that his golf partner and friend could destroy the Republican Party. Graham made the comments in an Axios interview where he reflected on his own failure to temper his support for Trump even after the Capitol riot – and spoke of Trumps ability to either build up or tear down the party he has effectively coopted.  Mitt Romney didnt do it, John McCain didnt do i...

Charley Pride turned 70 on March 18. You should know this. Everyone should know this. When Johnny Cash hit that milestone in 2002, his record labels past and present staged a yearlong celebration. Virtually every album Cash had recorded up until that point was reissued, with previously unreleased songs included on the discs and glowing essays tucked into the CD booklets. Willie Nelson got the same treatment as he approached his 70th the next year. It was the proper way to celebrate the lives an...

Even if it costs you all your black vote. even though jesse helms did everything he could to filibuster the holiday, it didnt end up being a single person filibuster record. the record longest filibuster in the united states by any state senator, that record actually is not a jesse helms record. that record was also set against civil rights election but it is a record that belongs to this guy. >> i wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there is not enough troops in the army to force the sou...

Im going to sing "dixie" until she cries, and they described it later to the l.a. times. said he did get right in her face and sing dixie in her face, oh, i wish i was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten. watch it all. make her cry. jesse helms epic filibuster against the martin luther king jr. holiday, interesting the ap asked him, are you worried how it would affect you politicly? youre in a state with a lot of black voters. not only was he worried about it. he was doing i...

Interviewed him about what he had done. this was kind of amazing. i stumbled across it today looking at old newspaper clippings. quote, he said in an interview he realized his opposition to king and his comments angered the black community. but he said he didnt expect to get much black support anyway. he said i faced reality, the blacks have a history of voting democratic down the line. jesse helm did overlap with one african-american senator during his entire tenure in the united states senate....