Tag: John

In numerous videos of the march held in Boston yesterday, there was one figure who stood out. A Captain in the Boston Police Department — and the only BPD officer wearing a black vest covering his badge — this officer seemed to be routinely on the front lines in several violent altercati...

John Martorano was born December 13, 1940. His brother James was born a year later on December 10, 1941. John was a tough guy… until he started looking at having to do prison time. Back in the late Seventies, Martorano had been caught by the Plymouth District Attorney’s office in a w...

On March 5, 1770 five colonists in Boston died amid an entanglement with British soldiers. In the aftermath of the subsequently labeled Boston Massacre, a painful splitting occurred between Bostonians and John Adams — the city’s thirty-four-year-old homegrown, rising legal star and event...

Alex and I have created a new show: Sex, Lies & Improvisation, an improvised comedy about lying together. We’re touring it this autumn but we can’t do that without a network of awesome improvisers who run great events in their improv communities. I want to celebrate those people...

Not too much is known about the life of John H. Woodruff. What we do know is that he lived with his wife and two children in Scotia, New York. Nearly four weeks before his death, he had left his job at the real estate office of J.A. Lindsley to become a Game Protector. After finishing first on the c...

When asked at the CS Lewis Institute why he’s a Christian, the Oxford mathematician and apologist John Lennox begins his answer by saying, “The primary reason is that I believe Christianity is true.” You might think, then, that Lennox would be led to defend the Christian cr...

The film itself is raw and revelatory and so brilliant Singleton was nominated for both Best Screenplay and Best Director at the Academy Awards. It was also significant — at least for me — because it was the first time this Michigan-born white boy had seen a film about Black pe...

On December 7th, 1971, police in Westfield, New Jersey received a call from the concerned neighbors of the List family. According to the report, the house’s lights had been on all day and night for almost a month with no sign of anyone inside. When responding to the initial reports, police che...

This past semester, I spent two hours every Tuesday night with 15 fellow freshman in President Sexton’s seminar, the Supreme Court and the Religious Clauses. With weekly 5 page papers to write and the hundreds of pages of Supreme Court opinions to read, it wasn’t an easy class by an...

John McWhorter is a linguist based at Columbia University who has designated himself as a culture warrior of a different stripe from the liberals usually given that term. He self-identifies as an anti-culture warrior who wants to show left-leaning social activists that he knows better than they and ...

Did you know that the day Superior Court Judge Hon. John Allen was born in Columbus, Georgia, was the same day the Liberty Ship SS John Burke was launched? This ship, named after the former Governor of North Dakota and United States Senator John Burke, who passed away in 1937, was one of the nearly ...

January 6th is writer-director John Singleton’s 56th birthday, or it would’ve been had he not tragically died far too young five years ago. I want to use this moment to share some thoughts about the impact of his work on me and others. Singleton’s debut film Boyz N the...

Saturday night shift, and I was assigned along with two other clerks to the ER, commonly termed the Emergency Room of the Surgery Department. So here comes the emergency case of an unknown patient who was a complete stranger with no names or IDs and who entered as “JOHN Doe” (that’...

Iwas in the auto industry for a long time. We saw a shift in the market at the beginning of COVID and things slowed down for us. This would change in the coming months, obviously. But,I just decided I didn’t want to do it anymore. As I set out on my search for a new career, my younger broth...

The Senate passed a bipartisan resolution Wednesday restoring the dress code in the Senate chamber, requiring business attire be worn on the floor of the Senate, “which for men shall include a coat, tie, and slacks or other long pants.” But Fetterman keeps ignoring it much of the time...