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Entries by Kenneth C. Davis from 08/2009

Summer Reading, Literary IQ and a Pop Quiz

| Posted 08.01.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Education, Teachers, Summer Reading, Summer, Iq, Books, Video, Healthy Living News

Summer also means the often dread Summer Reading List. Many parents spend the summer in an endless harangue, telling their kids to read. But there is actually a good reason for that nag.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: a Somber History Lesson

| Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Read More: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Gulf of Tonkin, Lyndon Johnson, Stanley Karnow, Vietnam War, Politics News

The 45th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution should serve as a sobering reminder of the costly war that America was dragged into based on lies and shadowy misinformation.

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"Driving While Black," "Negro Riots," and Two Nations

| Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
Read More: Driving While Black, Negro Riots, Riots, Race Riots, Watts, Politics News

On August 11, 1965, an all-too-frequent stop of a black man by a white police officer exploded into one of the worst urban riots in American history.

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Change the World? Give a Kid a Book

| Posted 08.13.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Johnny Got a Gun, The Beatles, 1968 Democratic National Convention, James Joyce, The Sisters, The Dubliners, Martin Luther King, Anti-War Movement, 1968, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Bobby Kennedy, John Wayne, Books, Healthy Living News

She was the town's meter maid -- a plus-sized meter maid, and not "the most comely of maidens." One day after choir, she handed me a book, saying simply: "I think you will like this."

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Sex and Voting

| Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics
Read More: Women's Rights, 19th Amendment, Universal Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth Amendment, Slavery, Abigail Adams, Politics News

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

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