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Two days ago I wrote about tearing down the Symbol of Greatness by Boston’s Taliban and yesterday about the disaster the was Blîss. Both relate to the dilemma that now exists with respect to Boston Latin School (BLS) which was founded in 1635. The enhanced stream that fed it was composed of students who could…

When this particular country was settled most who first arrived there set up their homes, governments and business in towns adjacent to each other along the coastline. One of them would eventually become the capital of the nation. The interior of the country was sparsely inhabited. As decades past and its population grew the capital…

“Mullah Omar ordered Taliban forces to demolish the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.”    “. . . the destruction took several weeks, and the two figures “proved remarkably solid.” From Wikipedia: “The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan, . . . [81 miles] northwest…

Reading a book I came across this story “A Father Forgets” by W. Livingston Larned, I thought it would be nice to share it on Sunday. It serves as a good reminder. “Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek, and the blond curls stickily wet…

America has developed slowly over time righting the wrongs that existed as time passed. One of the greatest wrongs was slavery; it took over 400 thousand Union deaths to stop it and over 300,000 Confederate deaths to defend it. There has always been a tug between hanging on to the status quo or moving forward…

A Trumper makes the incredible assertion in discussing the January 6 riot: “What about claiming that the election was stolen? That’s an opinion. Americans have a right to express their opinions.” You wonder what that means in the context of the riot. No one doubts you can express your wacky belief that the election was…