Violence at political rallies? Creating apparent threats? Very old stuff. I happened to read the other night descriptions of some rallies when the violence was real. In one, a Republican…
The lilacs are in full bloom in Vermont. Their blue, white and purple bring joy to the eyes and sadness to the heart. A line I think…
John Hay’s is one of those names from the late 19th century one recognises without quite knowing why. He deserves to be remembered. For he altered our national…
In 1871, 51-year-old former US Rep. Clement L. Vallandigham (D-OH) was in Lebanon, Ohio, to defend in a murder case. Vallandigham’s case depended on persuading the jury…
I liked Stephen Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ when I saw it. I would like it more in retrospect had I not heard so many promotional paeans to its accuracy. I’m…
I have been an Barack Obama supporter only since he won the Democratic nomination in 2008. In critical areas, I underestimated how much he could accomplish, running…
‘And Jesus … said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.’ Matthew 12:25. [1] South…
The best way to honor America’s military dead – whether those who died in service or those who returned to civilian life – is to gage how our country…
Seventy-five years after the Civil War began, Sinclair Lewis, America’s first Nobel laureate for literature, feared another national cataclysm: a Fascist takeover. In the course of It Can’t Happen Here…
We tend to think of Abraham Lincoln speaking in sentences Biblical in their complexity and beauty with a deep debt to the King James Version. But Lincoln could make a…
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