Virginia is removing a statue of American traitor Robert E. Lee

Virginia is removing a statue of American traitor Robert E. Lee - Bent Corner

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the giant statue honoring American traitor General Robert E. Lee be removed. It currently sits on public display in the state’s capital city of Richmond. It sure took Northam long enough to remove this blight from public view. I’m no fan of the treasonous confederates and Robert E. Lee was …

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Leaving Afghanistan looks just as awful as we knew it would be

Leaving Afghanistan looks just as awful as we knew it would - Bent Corner

President Biden kept his promise to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. The Taliban reacted by sweeping in and capturing most of the country. The Afghan military the U.S. has been training for the past 20 years laid their weapons down and refused to defend their country against the Taliban. The imagery coming out of Afghanistan …

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Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin convicted on all three charges

Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin convicted on all three charges

A jury convicted Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin yesterday. They convicted him on three charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. The top conviction, second-degree unintentional murder, carries a possible 40 years in prison. I listened to some of the trial. It took me back to the 90s when OJ Simpson was on …

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Amazon workers overwhelmingly vote against unionization

Workers at an Alabama Amazon distribution center voted against unionization. The vote wasn’t even close. From NPR: The vast majority of votes cast by Amazon’s workers in Bessemer, Ala., were against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in a stinging defeat of the union drive. The final tally showed 1,798 votes against unionizing …

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God bless the great state of Texas and its people

God bless the great state of Texas and its people

Even though I like to joke about Texas, I truly feel no ill will towards the state or its people. Not really. As a native Californian, I almost feel an obligation to make fun of Texas and Florida. The truth is I once even wanted to move to Texas. Shortly after I got out of …

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Quartz Hill High School will drop the ‘Rebels’ mascot

Quartz Hill High School located in the Antelope Valley, 60 miles north-east from Los Angeles, announced it is dropping its mascot. The Quartz Hill Rebels are no more. Instead, the Rebels will get called… something else. A small yet vocal group of people decided the name and mascot were racially insensitive. For years the mascot …

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