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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Did Not Support Prayer in Public Schools

Dr. King supported the various Supreme Court decisions prohibiting government-sponsored prayer in public schools. In a January 1965 interview with Playboy magazine, Dr. King was asked about one of the rulings. Not only did he back the court’s decision, he added that his antithesis, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, stood on the other side of the argument. Continue reading →

Thank You, Christopher Hitchens

I’m still upset by the passing of Christopher Hitchens; author, philosopher, erudite champion of the working class, enemy of tyrants, hater of ignorance, dialectic anomaly, someone I never met. Hitchens was someone whose boisterous, peremptive, larger-than-life personality seemed poised to … Continue reading →