June 29, 2020

How the man who eradicated smallpox would have handled coronavirus

Whether we realize it or not, we have all been part of a grand experiment.  Never before have we had a national lockdown and mass quarantines of healthy people in response to a pandemic.  Not during the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957 ...

June 21, 2020

The truth about slavery

Recently, Senator Tim Kaine spoke on the Senate floor and made a provocative statement: "The first African-Americans sent into the English colonies came to Point Comfort in 1619.  They were slaves, they had been captured against their ...

June 5, 2020

Democrats on display

We're just six months into 2020, and it's already been quite a year.  First, we had the worst pandemic this century has seen.  Then we've had protests and riots as the result of George Floyd's death.  But...

May 17, 2020

COVID-19 perspective: Imagine you were born in 1900

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 may well be remembered not for the deaths it caused, but for the pandemonium it created.  It's been a century since a virus has caused so much mayhem.  However, it wasn't so much the virus thi...