Tag: A Man for All Seasons

Threads of History

  “History is a ribbon, always unfurling. History is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us . . .” American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education, William Bennett, was born on this day in 1943. I was privileged to hear Dr. Bennett speak …

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Hats Off, or On to Justice Scalia

Those following the second Inauguration of Barack Obama via Twitter or perhaps on television where treated to an image of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wearing what was described as “a weird hat.” As Kevin Walsh of the St. Thomas More Society of Richmond explains, “the hat was a custom-made replica of the hat depicted in Holbein’s famous …

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