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7/22/20

Former Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, once noted that "It's a wonderful world but you/ve got to work, you've got to think, and you've got to study." And, we would add, you've got to know your history.

7/21/20

The recent thinly veiled proposal by House Democrats to create two more Democratic Senate seats by making the District of Columbia our fifty-first state was addressed in 1964 by no less than then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a Democrat, ho wrote: "It was indispensably necessary to the independence and the very existence of the (new) Federal Government to have a seat of government which was not subject to the jurisdiction or control of any State."

7/17/20

Writer Anne Rice once made the observation that “One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

7/16/20

Escaped slave Frederick Douglass wrote of President Grant: “I see in him the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race from all the malign, reactionary, social, and political elements that would whelm them in destruction.” It’s too bad that the unwise, radical reactionaries tore down the Grant monument in San Francisco.

7/14/20

Jeffrey Collins "Monuments aren't erected in a spirit of blind idolatry. They commemorate particular achievements of imperfect people"
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