Almanac for April 4, 2026
Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2026. There are 271 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death triggered a wave of unrest in cities across the United States that killed 43 people and injured more than 3,000. Also on this date: In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inauguration, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office; Harrison's vice president, ...
News flash: Bernie Sanders is not a New Yorker
Yes, he talks like a Brooklyn tough guy, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is a resident of Vermont, America's most rural and most white state. That he fled New York City nearly 60 years ago seems lost on the current Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow socialists. Then again, Mamdani hasn't been around ...
Placing values over voices
“Your values become your destiny.” — Mahatma Gandhi In disbelief, he stared at the speaker, baffled by what he was hearing and attempted to read his expression, but no emotion was evident. The discussion was to center on a specific topic but the speaker deliberately veered away ...
You don't own me
Politicians tax what we earn, regulate what we build and often decide what we can do with our bodies and our money. I like to think I own myself. But politicians increasingly act as if they do. "People should not have power over other people's lives," says Timothy Sandefur, author of the ...