The names of 3 Confederate generals will be removed from elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after a school board voted 7-0 Monday night to approve the proposal.
The date was September 20th, 1998. The place was Camden Yards in Baltimore, MD. The New York Yankees were in town to visit the home town Orioles, and Cal Ripken decided to do something he hadn't done since May 29th, 1982.
It was a 90 minute flight, uneventful, just like thousands of others today, but when JetBlue Airlines Flight 387 touched down earlier today, it was the first time in more that half a century that a direct commercial flight originating in the United States touched down in the island nation of Cuba.
It's time to spring into action: Daylight Saving Time will be upon us Sunday morning. You'll be loosing an hour's sleep Saturday night, and Sunday morning it'll be a just bit harder to drag yourself out of bed (or you could just sleep an hour later).
A decision has been rendered by new Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred in the appeal of the lifetime banishment of Shoeless Joe Jackson, a member of the infamous "Black Sox Scandal" that saw the Chicago White Sox "throw" the 1919 World Series. The scandal was featured in the movie 8 Men Out.
"Loyalty to our ancestors does NOT include loyalty to their mistakes."
That, my friends, exactly sums up my feelings today as the state government in South Carolina has taken the Confederate Flag down. Hopefully for good this time.
Uh, oh. . .I can already hear the rumbling. But, I ask you to respectfully read the rest of this article and to think of more than just the gut feeling that