by Michael Leppert | Nov 16, 2023 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
With a few vital exceptions across America, the 2023 election was scheduled to deal with local government. Tip O’Neill famously coined the phrase, “all politics is local.” Oh, if the former Speaker of the House, who held the gavel for virtually all of the 1980’s,...
by Michael Leppert | Mar 30, 2018 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
“Lingchi” was a brutal Chinese method of execution that was practiced from around 900 AD until 1905 when it was outlawed there. Its barbaric history is detailed in the 2008 book, “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” written by three French and Canadian professors, Timothy...
