Tag Archives: history

Confederacy purge builds steam, while last century’s worst villains spared

06/28/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The battle flag of the Confederate army has long been controversial, but now it is being banned online and in stores. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File) All symbols of the Confederacy are rapidly disappearing from stores, websites and the public…

Pope Francis paints himself into partisan political corner

06/22/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
As luck would have it, I was about to jump into the pope’s new environmental encyclical when I stumbled on an old story out of Israel. It seems that ­archaeological researchers found plaque on the teeth of people who lived…

Profs say US history guidelines would shortchange college-bound seniors

06/16/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Neither Ben Franklin nor Martin Luther King Jr. make an appearance in the College Board’s AP US History guidelines. Dozens of historians have sent the influential College Board back to the drawing board, after determining that its U.S. history exam…

Dinos died here: Getting to the core of asteroid impact mystery

04/13/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
A giant space rock that slammed into Earth 65.5 million years ago is blamed for killing off the dinosaurs. (Painting by Donald E. Davis.) The catastrophic asteroid crash blamed for the demise of the dinosaurs also left a gaping scar…

9-foot ‘butcher crocodile’ likely ruled before dinosaurs

03/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
A life reconstruction of the giant crocodile ancestor (Carnufex carolinensis) that lived some 231 million years ago in what is now North Carolina. (Copyright Jorge Gonzales. Open access) A 9-foot-tall beast with bladelike teeth once stalked the warm and wet…

Where are the jobs? America’s new leisure class

03/05/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
To listen to President Obama, the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders. Yet it is hardly creating jobs at a breakneck pace, and too many able-bodied men have grown lazy and show no interest in working. Friday, economists expect…

President Obama, here’s how you build a legacy

01/15/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Two years from now, the country will be on the verge of inaugurating the 45th president of the United States. The presidency of Barack Obama will be over, and to the joy and relief of many Americans, there will be…

Veteran trainer has field favorite California Chrome in Kentucky Derby debut

05/02/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
For a man who’s never had a horse in the Kentucky Derby, Art Sherman, trainer of morning line favorite California Chrome, has plenty of Derby experience. He played a minor role in helping a legend win the Derby, seen the…

Women, wake up, men have made your life better, not worse

12/31/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
There’s a reason the text version of Camille Paglia’s opening statement at the Munk Debate, “Resolved: Men Are Obsolete” garnered 10K likes on Facebook and received more than one thousand comments at Time.com: it hit a nerve. It was a…

What’s Next For Venezuela

03/07/2013 Published on Forbes.com
As the dust begins to settle since the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had succumbed to cancer, the real issue that Venezuelans currently face is transition. The coming months are crucial to Venezuela’s future. The first real step towards…