Tag: History and Culture

Yes, Virginia, this is an election year

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. American physician, journalist, and author, Charles Krauthammer, was born on this day in 1950. Of …

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Working It

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good. Abraham Lincoln in a letter to John D. Johnston, November 4, 1851. …

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