Dr. Walter E. Williams, 1936 – 2020 (R.I.P.)

Dr. Walter E. Williams has passed. From his last column published yesterday, CNS News:

If we accept the notion that rotten education is not preordained, then I wonder when the black community will demand an end to an educational

George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first President, has been reunited with Barbara:

HOUSTON (AP) — He was the man who sought a “kinder, and gentler nation,” and the one who sternly invited Americans to read his lips —

I did not comment on the passing of the Queen of Soul, the late Aretha Franklin, because I did not view it as political. It seems that Franklin and I are one opinion and her family of another.  The funeral:

Roger Stone has his opinion of the late Barbara Bush, and he is letting it be known, from Red State:

“She is descending into hell right now. She’s not going to heaven. She was a bad person,” Stone told

Janet Reno, Butcher of Waco, and kidnapper of Elian Gonzalez is dead, New York Post:

Reno died early Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte said. D’Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in

Phyllis Schlafly the most important woman in American politics of the previous century has died at age ninety-two, from American Power:

Phyllis Schlafly, whose grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment galvanized conservatives for almost two

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, dead at age Seventy Four, from Filip Bondy, New York Daily News:

I was the Vietnam War protestor. My dorm-mate, Joe, was the ROTC recruit. We were good friends at the University of Wisconsin, bound

Fred Thompson has died, from USA Today:

NASHVILLE — Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee, GOP presidential candidate, Watergate attorney and longtime Law and Order star, has died.

Thompson, 73, died on Sunday from after a recurrence

I see David has already addressed this here, and it seems to me somehow inappropriate to put an addendum on his tribute. So instead I’ll write something here.

I said over at Billys that sometimes it’s the combination of the

The final beam-up, Leonard Nimoy dead at age 83, from Hollywood Reporter:

Leonard Nimoy, the Hollywood renaissance man who fashioned a long and prosperous career as the supremely logical and cerebral science officer Mr. Spock from Star Trek, has

From WHEC (Rochester, NY)

The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said.

Thomas Eric Duncan was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas,

I don’t know if Joan Rivers was an original, but she exhibited stalwart qualities. she toiled, rose, fell down, adapted and got back up again, from Hank Stuever, Washington Post:

In her long and relentless comedy career, Joan Rivers,

From Hollywood Reporter:

Lauren Bacall, the willowy actress whose husky voice, sultry beauty and all-too-short May-December romance with Humphrey Bogart made her an everlasting icon of Hollywood, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 89.

Bacall died

An American icon has passed. Shirley Temple Black dead at age eighty-five, from Norman Eisen:

We at Embassy Prague mourn the passing of Shirley Temple Black, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana, movie star, and American icon. She was

The Lion has died. Ariel Sharon dead at eighty-five:

(CNN) — Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who died Saturday at age 85, made a name for himself as a military and political leader who put Israel’s