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Massacre in America: A way of life

Anyone surprised at the frequency and severity of massacre in modern American history doesn’t know much older American history. Since the...

The central contradiction of the Confederacy—that the freedom of some depended upon the captivity of others—was the South’s inheritance...

How many broken down cars got rolled over--how many old rugs-- how much paint, lying in the rocks until it burned, or got shoved a little...

Or, How To Win and Still Lose Or, Why You Should Have Your Beautiful Plan to Replace Obamcare Finished Before Winning The Election Or,...

By crows tilting delta breezes, and ancient waterways composed of old stone, deep in the ground; by wild chicory blooming through...

Lobo woke about noon, or maybe a bit later, feeling as if he had spent the night inhaling poisonous gases. He checked his tobacco pouch....

Long line of aluminum cattle cars thumping slowly over the trestle over the river running deep and heavy, reaching into the trees; broken...

Napoleon, Moscow; GW Bush, Baghdad: Why CNN Sucks as Much as Fox News Americans love history but make no pretense of understanding or...

Pitch Coming home alone on a bike past Three Corners and the stink of the equestrian stable, then Deadman's curve with the fox tails on a...

The division between reality and Trump is not some distant geographic line but a close personal distinction which in most cases divides...