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Today is Presidents Day. I noted in checking through my past posts that my assigned date last year fell also on Presidents Day. In 2020, I wrote about presidential trivia. So rather than repeat, I’ll mention it briefly and move on. The federal holiday began as a commemoration of George Washington’s birthday, February 22, but now we celebrate on the third Monday in the month. The holiday takes place during the birth month of the country’s two most prominent presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and honors both, as well as other presidents. The holiday now never lands on a si...

Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States in 2017 on a promise to Make America Great Again, beginning four years in office that changed America and how it was viewed around the world

Dick Brass on Donald Trump: The social media network that allowed treason in plain sight 13 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Donald Trump speaks to supporters at US-Mexico border wall. Video / Right Side Broadcasting Network OPINION: Let us parler today about Parler, the now shuttered Twitter for Traitors app that our insurrectionists here allegedly used to do their coup planning. Like other aspects of the shocking developments the world has watched lately in America, it has been part of something unique: open book, crowd-sourced, plain-view treason. In the past, most tr...

OPINION: The US President's reckless impact on the United States and world will be vast.

But there’s controversy. Trump’s visit will be capped by fireworks for the first time in a decade, notwithstanding worries that pyrotechnics could ignite wildfires. And Native Americans are planning protests, adding Mount Rushmore to the list of monuments around the world that critics see as commemorating histories of racism, slavery and genocide and reinforcing white supremacy. As I show in my book, “Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites,” many venerated historical sites tell complicated stories. Even Mount Rushmore, which was designed...