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It's 10:30pm two days before 9/11. I'm getting home after a 3 week whirlwind trip to mid America. This airport, Salt Lake City, is a brightly lit aorta of activity with thousands and thousands of people coming, going, jamming the bright new shops, pubs and restaurants. Perhaps they are getting vital calories to endure the insanely long walk from the front curb to the B gates. Masks and distancing? Yes, but they come off and stay off at the drinking hole. Shop closures? Not here; it's hopping 24/7. Such a contrast to the dark and quiet rows of shops in...

Lou Brock, the Hall of Fame outfielder who set MLB stolen base records (season and career) before being surpassed by Rickey Henderson and who was a principal in one of the most famous trades in baseball history, died Sunday. He was 81.

Lindsey Graham invites Mr Rosenstein to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary.

She was born yesterday. Her parents are near in our family tree. These are not primitives. Both husband and wife have hard-earned Ph.D.'s, a handsome, talented, busy couple. She lived forty minutes.

I was driving around St. Louis last fall, very near Ferguson, where recently a white cop shot dead a black teen. A black man, V, was waiting at a bus stop alone. I figured I could get him home half an hour earlier than the bus, so I stopped and offered him a ride. As we talked, I learned that his entire life experience has been in one locale, North St. Louis. I asked him what the news is around here and what's going on. I referenced Ferguson. That got V going.

The never before seen video was just uploaded to YouTube today. "In 1996, Valerie Jarrett addressed the National Association for the Education of Young Children where she said it does take a village to raise a child but asked, what happens when the village is in chaos. Remarks come full circle with attacks on Michael Jordan. Source: South Carolina Educational Television Network," states the description of the video on YouTube. In the speech Jarrett describes an America with some kids growing up in "war-like conditions." She says, "And yet, these kids are expected to compete with my daughter and with...