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Brigadier General Mitchell Through my pursuing of my private pilot license and overall interest in aviation, I have begun to study the many figures that have shaped how we view American aviation in the modern era. One of these many figures, Billy Mitchell, a brigadier general in the Army Air Service, was a pioneer in the development of US military...
On August 16, 2022, Liz Cheney, the sole House Representative of Wyoming, delivered a speech to supporters. In this speech, Cheney conceded her primary GOP House race to pro-Trump rival Harriet Hageman. This surrender signals the eighth House Republican who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021 to be out of Congress by January 2023. 2nd Impeachment of...
December 18, 2019 never appeared to be a very critical or memorable day. Now, however, it will go down in infamy as the day the forty-fifth President of the United States, Donald J Trump, was impeached by the House of Representatives. The House passed two articles of impeachment against the President on the evening of December 18: one for obstruction...
Many in the west celebrated the fall of Communism as a triumph. But the people of Yugoslavia saw it as a dark omen, as storm clouds gathering. In the decade to come, the slaughter of thousands, man and woman, adult and child, Croat and Serb, Bosnian and  Albanian would commence on a scale not seen in Europe since the...
It seemed as if they went over everything but the questions from this debate, from old issues such as Hillary's emails to the new video of Donald Trump. On Sunday, October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off again in a town hall meeting style debate, the event moderated by Martha Raddatz (ABC) and...
Introduction The Elections On November 3, numerous elections will take place across the country. Democrat Joe Biden is leading a strong challenge against Republican President Donald Trump. Biden currently leads Trump in the national polls by around 8%, but what matters is the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Very simply, the Electoral College is a system that gives each state...
On February 4th, American Air Force F-22 fighters shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, ending a tense geopolitical standoff between China and the United States. For days, an unidentifiable balloon drifted over the United States until it met its end in the Atlantic Ocean. The accusations of the United States that the balloon was in...
In the primary elections, a number of candidates did not gain 50% of the vote. As a result, runoff elections were held on May 24, 2022 for the first and second place candidates to compete. The winner of each runoff race will face the other major party’s nominee, as well as possible Libertarian and Green contestants.  LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR In the primaries,...

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