The Monday hearing of the House Select Committee of Jan. 6 begins soon, and I have a few preliminary comments. First, I will use this post as the gathering point for any comments submitted, through the final public hearing of this committee which is June 23. The previous post on this topic is here. 9:04 […]
PRENOTE: I did watch the entire Jan. 6 Committee report on June 9, and plan to watch the remainder beginning Monday 6/13 10 a.m EDT (9 Central) on the Committees YouTube Channel, with a followup column likely the same day. Your comments are solicited. The Committee Home Page is here. Remaining hearings Jan 15, 16, […]
POSTNOTE JUNE 8: Latest update on televised hearings: “The hearings will be broadcast on C-SPAN, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and the Fox Business Channel and streamed on the YouTube channel of the House Select Committee on June 9, 13, 15, 16, 21, and 23.” Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, June 8, […]
I really hope a few of you take the bait on the below…. Read the paragraph that begins with “Below, I speculate”. The rest is your choice. The word is that the Supreme Court ruling on a woman’s right to choose will be sometime this month, as will the public report of the Congressional Committee […]
Here is the prior post on Uvalde. There have been 15 comments to this post. Upcoming: Memorial Day, Monday May 30, Vets for Peace MN chapter 27 will renew its annual observance of Memorial Day at the Vietnam Memorial on the State Capitol Grounds at 10:30 a.m. Here are details. I have participated in […]
A second post on the topic is at May 27. Today I watched the entire news conference in Uvalde TX in the wake of the carnage at Robb Elementary School May 24. The Governor and Lt. Governor of TX were center of attention. I won’t recount much from that meeting, which will cover the walls […]
Yesterday, I rough-drafted the comments seen below, and affixed the title you see above. Today came the news of the most recent mass casualty school shooting, this time in Uvalde TX. 14 kids and a teacher, dead, is the report. The shooter killed. More later on that; first the rough draft. * Separately came two […]
Spring is here; the ice is out, and for some people, canoeing on the northern lakes is on the mind. This very evening, Friday May 20, my sister and brother-in-law, at the doorstep of 50 years marriage, are setting up their first overnight in Ontario’s immense Quetico park. The map of their itinerary, starting at […]
There is nothing much to add to the two posts in my in-box today relating to the latest killing spree in Buffalo. Heather Cox Richardson, May 15: here. The Weekly Sift: White replacement is MAGA’s unified field theory. A totally different slant, which I don’t think was coincidental programming, was last nights 60 Minutes presentations, one […]
PRENOTE: The film Mission: Joy still on through May 19. Details. This weekend is the annual Garage Sale in Woodbury. A good neighbor and friend, Jim, is having such a sale and passed along an idea he and his wife are pursuing as their contribution to the Ukraine Crisis. This is just a single idea […]