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Summer 1986 It is Summer of 1986 in Normal, Illinois. Towards the end of the Summer semester. We are living in the white house on College Ave. My roommate is trying to study for a final exam, and I am studying a case of beer and cranking the stereo. He finally has enough and invites…

Walter Cronkite took off his glasses on July 20, 1969, leaned forward in the CBS newsroom, and went silent on live television as Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, even though more than 600 million people were watching him explain what was happening. For nearly 27 hours, Cronkite had been on air covering the mission.…

Joan Trumpauer was born into an all-white world in Arlington, Virginia, in 1941. Her mother descended from slave owners. Her father worked a government job. For the first decade of her life, segregation was simply the way things were. Then, at age 10, a friend dared her to do something simple: walk through a predominantly…

From the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union-fear.html This is why the Democratic response to Tuesday’s speech, from Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, was in exactly the right key. She summed up this year’s midterm elections in three questions: “Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the president working to keep Americans safe…

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Disaster struck at the White House on Tuesday night when Donald J. Trump fell into what appeared to be an irreversible coma during a screening of the upcoming film “Melania.” Trump was unresponsive seven minutes into the screening despite the First Lady’s attempts to rouse him by repeatedly swatting his right hand.…

A song worth listening to at least once. I, I will be kingAnd you, you will be queenThough nothing will drive them awayWe can beat them, just for one dayWe can be heroes just for one day And you, you can be meanAnd I, I’ll drink all the time‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a…