Tag: Weekend

How Shall We then Respond?

On this day in 1587, Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. We didn’t make it to Roanoke Island this summer, so I can’t really tell you what happened to The Lost Colony. But the history, both real and speculative, is …

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And now, the weekend…

Being willing to donate the taxpayers’ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. American economist, philosopher, and author, Thomas Sowell, was born on this day in 1930. I’m just going to leave that quote right there, lest you think I’m getting political again. I’ll just …

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