Tag: Confederacy

Don’t Carry Me Back

Yes, Virginia, it’s been less than a month. I’ve always been proud to be from Virginia. A little less so in recent years. Even less in recent days. We’ve always known we had an ugly past. But in some ways, we thought we’d gone beyond that. We’ve always looked at scandals elsewhere and thought, that …

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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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