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A Little Piece of Heaven

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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This is how I role

On this date in 1562, Sixty-three Huguenots were massacred in Wassy, France. This began the French Wars of Religion. I have Huguenot ancestors, not from the sixty-three. My Huguenot family got here in the late 1600s and settle west of Richmond. Today, I live off of the extension of Huguenot Road in Chesterfield County. If …

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