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The Citizen your username your email Password recovery Thanks to increased longevity and medical science, we now have five living generations on my wife’s side of the family. Once upon a time, not so long ago, life spans were much shorter. In 1949, life expectancy for males was 65.2 and 70.7 for females. In 1915, men lived to the ripe old age, on average, of 52.5 years with women doing slightly better at 58.8 years. In 1900, just 15 years earlier, the average male could expect to live unti...

Brown v. Board of Education and the Constitution George Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, Jr. after their victory in Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court’s decision in  Brown v. Board of Education sent a shockwave through much of the legal community. Scholars noted serious Constitutional problems with the ruling, and significant departures from principles of jurisprudence. More than 80 congressmen and senators signed the “Southern Manifesto,” charging that the justi...

Nothing about the first Korean War would prepare U.S. troops for the magnitude of the second.  Heres What You Need To Remember: Whether Korean War II would drag on into a permanent stalemate, given North Koreas economic fragility and Western reluctance to endure yet another “long war,” is another matter. Yet barring a collapse of Kim Jong-un’s regime or its army, it seems unlikely there will be any lightning advances or bug-out retreats up and down the Korean Peninsula. If a Second Kore...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." -- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Last year, a detainee at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed a writ of habeas corpus in a federal district court in Washington, D.C. -- to which all cases from Guantanamo have been assigned -- and it was denied because he was not in the United States.  A writ of habea...

Andrew P. Napolitano "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." — Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Last year, a detainee at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed a writ of habeas corpus in a federal district court in Washington, D.C. — to which all cases from Guantanamo have been assigned — and it was denied because he was not in the United States. A writ of habeas corpus is the ancient individual right of every person ...

A writ of habeas corpus is the ancient individual right of every person confined by the government to require the government to justify the confinement under the law to a neutral judge.

How America Is Losing the Battle for the South China Sea Washington should step up its efforts to make Beijing pay a more serious price for such a flagrant disrespect for international law. What a difference a year makes. In late summer 2016, there was some hope the July 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling in favor of the Philippine interpretation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal would curtail Beijing’s subsequent activi...

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, May 5, 2021. It’s Cinco de Mayo, a celebration that really got its start in California, not Mexico. I like to spotlight this event each year, and will reprise my account in a moment. First, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s front page includes Sarah Longwell arguing that President Biden is delivering on the central promi...

May 3, 2021 By Keith Norrington The steamer Silver Moon was notably a unique vessel. The boat was designed and built specifically to fit into the short locks of the Louisville & Portland Canal. Constructed in 1859 at Cincinnati, the wooden hull measured 184 feet in length by 39 feet in width, with a depth of 7.5 feet. Three boilers supplied steam to engines having 22-inch cylinders with an 8-foot stroke. The paddlewheels were 26 fe...

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