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Conspiracy Theory Contest

When I saw the cable news tape showing smoke rolling out of a window in the Old Executive Office Building in D.C. this week, I just hoped one of my favorite old buildings wouldn’t be seriously damaged....

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Which Dust Bowl Were You Talking About?

Sometimes I read something that makes me wonder if I live on the same planet as the writer. This Dust Bowl reverie, hot on the heels of yesterday’s dust storm analysis, continues to stick in my mind....

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West Virginia Politics and Reality-Based Stuff

Lincoln Walks At Midnight points to several articles on the presidential race in West Virginia, including The Washington Post’s A New Political Geography: Role Reversals in Virginias Reflect National...

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Counting Our Skunk Blessings

Skunks drop by the house pretty regularly in warm weather. They like sunflower seeds, the compost pile, and grubs, and sometimes they spend a day or two under our house, where we hope they never hit...

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James Weaver: Campaign Trail Blazer

When TV political commentators make historical comparisons with current events, it seems to me they seldom venture back before the Reagan administration. (I know some of them are at least as old as I...

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Near the Relief Office I See My People

It’s wonderful to hear Pete Seeger singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at yesterday’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial. I got all choked up watching this, and tonight, I’ll probably dream...

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Smithsonian to Put an Entire Collection On Line

Because I’m involved in a local history project with ambitions of putting Pocahontas County collections and archives on line, I was very interested to see this article about a Smithsonian Museum: Going...

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Alexander Hamilton

Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009. Accompanied...

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