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Somewhere I read that babies don’t come with a manual. They come with a mother. Written By: Terry Woster | × I’m convinced the single best thing a man can do for his children is to find and love a woman who is a natural mother. It’s an added bonus if the woman also happens to be a nurse. I can’t calculate the medical expenses we’ve saved over our half century of being married with three children because I married an R.N. Even today, children and grandchildren call for a consult. The fee isn’t much, just pure love, which is a better deal than most health care po...

Fred Hampton: House Democrat introduces bill to release COINTELPRO files on surveillance of Black Panthers CNN 3 hrs ago By Caroline Kelly, CNN © AP In this October 29, 1969, file photo, Dr. Benjamin Spock (background) listens to Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, at a rally outside a US courthouse. A Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the government to release its decades-old records from an FBI-run covert surveillance program that monitored the Black Panthers, as well as civil rights and anti-war activists, among...

Sages, Saints, and Surprises: Some Writing That Shaped America Since the 18th century, the printed word has influenced the course of American history. From the founding of the United States, its literacy rates were higher than the countries of Europe. In his article “The Spread of Education Before Compulsion,” Edwin West of the Foundation for Economic Education writes that by 1800, literacy among white American males had reached almost 90 percent. In 1828, the United States sported 50 universities and 600 newspapers and journals. As West tells us, one writer reported that year, “With u...

A thunderous meeting of guitar gods at Prince’s Bay music festival.

Today: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 69. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Tonight: Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 57. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Highs are expected to gradually rise back towards the 80s by midweek. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1863 Stonewall Jackson smashes Joseph Hooker’s flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia. 1865 President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the Confederate President 1866 Birth of Jesse Lazear, American physic...