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Let there Be Peace this Weekend

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France, arrived in New York Harbor. I was going to riff on freedom, as in the price of, the loss of, etc., but it’s Friday and I’m using my freedom to think on other things. It’s …

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And that’s the way it is

  We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. American journalist, voice actor, and producer, Walter Cronkite, was born on this day in 1916 (died 2009). Yesterday was Election Day. Your view of whether we were intelligent or not may likely depend on your own political leanings. …

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