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3 days ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would become what Catholics call the Vicar of Christ. Once the media had caught its collective breath, the speculation began.
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4 days ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
On Feb. 12, 1884, while serving in the state legislature in Albany, Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) received a telegram from New York City that his wife, Alice, who was living in his mother’s house, had delivered their first baby. He had already arranged to return home later that day when a second telegram brought news of the precarious state of Alice’s health. Rushing back to Manhattan, he found Alice semiconscious and dying from Bright’s disease and his mother, Mittie, stricken with typhoid fever.
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6 days ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
If there were a promotional program for infrequent flyers, as there is for frequent flyers, I would be a member in good standing. In 2015, I traveled by plane to Europe and back. In 2019, I flew to Milwaukee and back again for a memorial service for my mother-in-law. That’s all the flying I’ve done in the last 20 years or so.
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6 days ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Dustin Bass |Mark Lardas |Barbara Danza |Jeff Minick
This week, we feature a heartwarming children’s tale about sharing our environment with bees and a fascinating thought experiment that takes a look at potential cases of piracy—in space. Military HistoryBy Joseph WheelanAs we near the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, Wheelan’s recent book proves timely. It is, however, far more than timely. It is engrossing to the point of disturbing.
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1 week ago | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jeff Minick
Years ago, a newlywed couple spent a couple nights at the bed-and-breakfast my wife and I operated. Talking with us in the kitchen one afternoon, the husband declared that he intended to be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He was then working in some sort of direct sales outfit in which promotion and higher earnings came with recruiting new members to his team.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
During the afternoon of June 17, 1775, the British troops had twice marched up Breed’s Hill, part of a battle we now call Bunker Hill, and twice the Continentals had repulsed them, leaving their dead and wounded littering the ground. Now came the third assault on the American redoubt. This time British general Sir Thomas Gage ordered his troops to take off their heavy packs and to attack the redoubt head-on with their bayonets.
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1 week ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
Years ago, a newlywed couple spent a couple nights at the bed-and-breakfast my wife and I operated. Talking with us in the kitchen one afternoon, the husband declared that he intended to be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He was then working in some sort of direct sales outfit in which promotion and higher earnings came with recruiting new members to his team.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
For much of his long life, English author Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was wildly popular with the public. He first attracted attention with his plays, but it was his off-stage fiction—short stories like “Rain” and novels like “Of Human Bondage”—that won him worldwide acclaim and made him one of the most famous authors of the 20th century. Hollywood produced successful films of both these stories, as well as many others, which added to his renown.
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1 week ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. In December 2023 he noted that since the Covid pandemic 38% more Americans were receiving some type of mental health care. “We are facing three distinct crises, which partially overlap,” Insel contends.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Dustin Bass |Mark Lardas |Jeff Minick |Barbara Danza
HistoryThis week, we feature the gripping saga of a group of musicians in the Pacific theater and a new look at the forgotten tales of one of early baseball’s greats. ‘Nightmare in the Pacific: The World War II Saga of Artie Shaw and His Navy Band’By Michael Doyle“Nightmare” was bandleader Artie Shaw’s musical theme used to open his shows. It described the experiences of the band he led during World War II on its South Pacific tour.
