Opinion

As I adjusted to the news over the weekend that our country and Israel had attacked Iran, I began devouring updates — from the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to President Trump’s encouragement that Iran’s population rise up and replace the 47-year-old theocratic regime.

President Donald Trump nominated Jeremy Carl to a top spot in the Trump administration’s State Department. Usually, there’d be no reason for you to know who Jeremy Carl is. But, recently, Carl told U.S. senators in a congressional hearing that a loss of a “dominant” White culture is weakening the country.

February 22, was the birthday of George Washington, which the nation celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1971, Presidents’ Day, was established as the third Monday in February and opened that celebration to all presidents, Washington and Lincoln being the most popular. President Donald Trump Day? His day may not be celebrated by some.

Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown cause surrounded by mysterious circumstances outside Gunner’s Hall Tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1849. He is best known for great works such as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”