Yesterday we posted this fascinating story about the discovery of four graves of some of the top leaders of the Jamestown settlement – the first major and permanent English settlement in North America and the origin point of the Virginia colony and later State of Virginia. But as many have already noted, the issue of real historical, as opposed to antiquarian, significance is the discovery of a small Catholic reliquary in the grave of Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the leaders of the early settlement and a rival of the far better known Captain John Smith, who is often credited with saving the colony in its bleak first years and – less known – was later a key explorer of what became New England.
The Colorado school board members who wanted AP U.S. history to emphasize how awesome America is now face likely recall elections because America is so awesome.
Oklahomans aghast to learn that governor’s daughter has been living in a trailer outside the governor’s mansion for months.
Interestingly, seems more part of West-variant hipster subculture than traditional South-variant white rural culture of poverty subculture. But if any anthropologists who want to weigh in I’d welcome it.
Scott Walker cuts the cheesesteak line in Philly; locals say “Get a rope …”
72-year-old vet Harry Tracey has been arrested after walking into an Army recruiter’s office in Conyers, Georgia with a pistol to “keep the guys on their toes” in case a Muslim came to kill them.
Politico’s Mike Allen to emcee Koch Brothers donor cattle call with Republican presidential candidates.
Cool new archaeological discoveries at Jamestown announced today.
Trump apologizes for saying you can’t rape your own wife.
Frankly, I think Trump should have stuck with George.
President Bush’s Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, says Mike Huckabee is guilty of the same sort of “incitement” that led to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.