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“The time has come to talk about the evils of war. It is not true that the existence of wars proves their necessity. The history of mankind says that such things should not happen.” Today’s entry in A Calendar of Wisdom was all about the horrors of war, including
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It is an astonishing fall for a man who was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the top federal lawyer in Manhattan, before he was mayor of New York City. Power corrupts. June 24, 2021 - Letters from an American
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“These conversations should start where people are, rather than where you want them to be,” he said. “And the last place educational policy should be made — where you decide what teachers should be teaching in the classroom — is in the Legislature.” Whitmire: Alabama lawmaker wants to ban critical race theory,
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Republican lawmakers are downplaying the January 6 insurrection, rewriting our history to suggest that the assault on the heart of our democratic process was no big deal. Last week, Representative Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA) said the event was like a “normal tourist visit”—photos show him that day screaming and
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The Delaware County Telephone Company built a new house in 1914 to be used as a telephone office and home for the Aimers. The new switchboard had 50 local lines and 12 toll lines. The party lines in the country had several people on them but the rest in town
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Tonight, FNC personality Carlson called for his audience to start direct action. He told them to confront people wearing masks, which he says are signs of “political obedience.” He maintained that 64% of white Americans who called themselves “liberal” or “very liberal” “have been diagnosed with an actual mental health
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Perhaps racism is the reason that these valiant scholarly attempts at whitesplaining away America’s racial toxicity exist in the first place. In any other scientific discipline, the general consensus would adhere to the tried and true methodologies found in every other field of research. Maybe white people genuinely cannot
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A wonderful web based essay looking into the history and connections of this Japanese woodblock print. A really brilliant use of HTML to tell a story. * A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion - The New York Times
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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THE marriage of Miss Margaret Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hamilton of Chicago, and Raymond Grueninger, son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Grueninger, SOU Bonhomme avenue, will take place Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the home of Miss Hamilton’s uncle
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The coronavirus relief bill illustrates just how dangerously close we are to minority rule. * February 28, 2021 - Letters from an American
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So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. This feels like the truest thing I’ve read in a long time. * The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber
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After that great journey, a trader may have tucked the beads into his kayak on the western shore of the Bering Sea. He then dipped his paddle and made passage to the New World, today’s Alaska. The crossing of Bering Strait at its narrowest is about 52 miles of