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History
Film, History
Film: Remembering Amache
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History
Jefferson’s Hotel Stay & Public Policy
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There’s an oft-repeated story about Thomas Jefferson’s visit to a Baltimore hotel when Jefferson was vice-president of the United States. (I don’t know the date of story’s first written account, or where that account first appeared.) Here’s the telling of Mr. Jefferson’s unsuccessful reservation, from a website on the vice-presidency: In another classic anecdote, our…
Film, History, Press
Film: The Newspaper Crisis of 1945
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Animals, Books, History
Winnie-the-Pooh Was (Based on) a Real Bear
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History, Holiday, Labor
Happy Labor Day 2014
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Animals, History
Calvin Coolidge’s Pet Raccoon
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First Lady Grace Coolidge and Rebecca the Raccoon. Calvin Coolidge was a good president, but as for his taste in pets, I’m not so sure: One of the best-known four-legged White House residents during the Coolidge years — a raccoon — had actually been meant to be eaten. She was sent from Mississippi to be…
America, History, Law, Liberty
Understanding America Backwards
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There’s a longstanding maxim of liberty that Americans inherited from England: ‘those things not prohibited by law are permitted.’ The burden is on the state: if there’s no express ban under law, then a person is free to act. Since government has to enumerate restrictions if it wants to enforce them, a free society places…
History
Symbols on the Dollar Bill
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Animals, Art, History, Nature
The Imagination at Work
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History, Holiday
Happy Thanksgiving
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From the earliest European settlers to our continent, and by the efforts of several presidents and intervening generations, Thanksgiving comes to us. (Along these lines, see Nathan Raab’s When Was The Real First Thanksgiving? That Depends.) For today, here’s George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of October 3, 1789: By the President of the United States of…
Film, History, Military
Film: Free Showing of Honor Flight, Sunday, July 21st at 2:30 p.m.
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This Sunday, July 21st, there will be a showing of the film Honor Flight at 2:30 p.m. at Mulberry Glen, 1255 W. Main Street, Whitewater. It is being shown courtesy of Mulberry Glen and Capri Senior Communities. The showing is free and open to the public. Information regarding this film is available at the Internet…
History, Human Nature
Blaming the Younger Generation
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One reads now and again of unruly, uncontrolled – dare one say raucous? – young people. Consider this heartfelt lament: Furthermore, during the last thirty years customs have changed; now when young…get together, if there is not just talk about money matters, loss and gain, secrets, clothing styles, or matters of sex, there is no…