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Blowing up the King’s gunpowder in 1771

My blog today is about my favorite local history story. It was 254 years ago last Friday – May 2, 1771, that a group of teenage boys and young men from Rocky River Presbyterian Church in present-day Cabarrus County, North Carolina, decided to blow up a shipment of King George III’s gunpowder. The Regulator Movement … Continue reading Blowing up the King’s gunpowder in 1771 →

Do you enjoy National Parks? Plus 8 other good things being targeted by the Trump Administration

Just as I attempted yesterday afternoon to schedule this blog post to be published at 5:00 a.m. today, my internet and phone service were severed in a farming accident just up the road. With partial service restored and technicians coming back tomorrow to try to finish repairing the problem, I’m attempting to post this now … Continue reading Do you enjoy National Parks? Plus 8 other good things being targeted by the Trump Administration →

How’s that Salmonella infection working for you?

Due to my ongoing internet service problems after underground cables were ripped up just up the road from my house, I will schedule this post for 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2025, and hope it goes out! More repairs are to be made tomorrow, so I don’t know when I’ll have internet service. I’m … Continue reading How’s that Salmonella infection working for you? →

13 additional questionable actions by the Trump Administration

Are you as tired of hearing this stuff as I am? That’s part of their plan. Just wear us out and wear us down. They want us to get so tired of being bombarded every day by more Executive Orders and lies that we will eventually tune it out. We are faced with pure evil … Continue reading 13 additional questionable actions by the Trump Administration →

#OnThisDay: James Monroe’s Birthday, 1758

When I have an #OnThisDay topic to blog about, I try to tie it in with a current event. Sometimes that’s easier than other times. When I created my 2025 editorial calendar for my blog months ago, I wondered what I could do with Jame Monroe’s birthday for my April 28, 2025, blog post. How … Continue reading #OnThisDay: James Monroe’s Birthday, 1758 →

A War on Civil Rights

I didn’t want to post a blog on a Saturday, but here I am. On Thursday, April 23, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” Under the guise of allegedly encouraging “meritocracy and a colorblind society, not race- or sex-based favoritism,” the order calls for an evaluation of … Continue reading A War on Civil Rights →

These 13 things bring me hope

You will see from today’s list that it doesn’t take much to make me happy these days. I will take little victories for democracy any time I can find them. Writing blog post after blog post about bad and unjust things going on in America lately, I was determined to blog about things that bring … Continue reading These 13 things bring me hope →

Environmental Justice

Today’s blog post is about one example of environmental justice… or, more accurately, environmental injustice. What is Environmental Justice? As succinctly stated on the website of The Goldman Environmental Prize (https://www.goldmanprize.org/), “Environmental justice is the idea that people of all cultures, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds deserve fair protection from environmental and health hazards, as … Continue reading Environmental Justice →

17 more unjust things going on in America

Continuing in the vein of my blog posts on March 24 and 31, and April 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, and yesterday, today I highlight 16 more unjust things going on in America. Until my next blog post … tomorrow I hope you’re reading a good book. Pay attention to what’s … Continue reading 17 more unjust things going on in America →

Some unjust things going on in America

When I blogged The Importance of Marbury v. Madison Today on February 24, I didn’t intend to start an endless series of political and political science posts, but there seems to be no end to the chaos the Trump Administration is creating. I don’t make this stuff up. I’m trying to put a human face on … Continue reading Some unjust things going on in America →