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Devin Nunes hosts 'Freedom Fest' fundraiser in Tulare with Newsom challenger Kevin Faulconer View Comments Tulare Congressman Devin Nunes will host a blockbuster private fundraising event on Saturday morning featuring prominent Republicans from across the San Joaquin Valley and nation. The event, dubbed the "Freedom Fest," will kick off at 10 a.m. at the International Agri-Center just outside Tulare, according to an itinerary viewed by the Times-Delta. More than 1,700 people are expected to attend the sold-out fundraiser. Conservative radio personality Ray Appleton will serve as the master ...

Jonathan P. Baird: The problem of far right extremism is nothing new Published: 5/3/2021 8:24:22 AM The Trump presidency and the events of January 6 made me wonder about past American experience with authoritarian threats. Did America ever have other close calls with far right-wing extremism? Here I am not talking about the racist, totalitarian system that persisted in the South for almost 100 years after Reconstruction. Although it is little remembered now before Pearl Harbor there was a surprisingly strong pro-Nazi movement in the United States. The story of the heroic war against the Axis...

ON THE SAME PAGE: Let's get cozy with new books, film, CD titles Kim Jankowiak and Becca Brown, Manistee County Library April 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 "Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted" by Suleika Jaouad is a memoir of a young woman just starting out, only to be brought up short by a cancer diagnosis. After working so hard to survive, the author now tells her story on beginning to live again. (Courtesy photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of11 3of11 4of11 Greg Bear's "The Unfinished Land" is the story of a young fisherman's apprentice who finds himself caught between hum...

Philip Roth and the repellent What is most disturbing in Blake Bailey’s biography is not Roth’s behaviour, but his biographer’s apparently unthinking alignment with it.  On page 700 of Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth, we find Roth reading Greg Bellow’s memoir of his father, Saul Bellow’s Heart. Roth and Bellow had a complex relationship, meticulously detailed in Bailey’s book. The pair first met in 1957, when Roth was just starting out as a writer and teaching at the University of Chicago; Bellow arrived as a visiting writer and bestowed the blessing of his admirati...

A documentary film about an African American lawyer who rose from poverty and oppression in the Deep South to the highest court in the land would seem a natural for Black History Month. Yet, in February, at the very time its Prime Video service was featuring films highlighting black history makers, Amazon without explanation stopped offering digital streams of “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” While the film was pulled despite having at one time reached No. 1 on Amazon’s documentary charts, the world’s largest online retailer continued to make available st...