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Exhuming history, exposing lies
As I watched Richmond city workers, surrounded by cheering protestors, remove a hundred-year-old towering bronze of Stonewall Jackson on horseback from its base on Monument Avenue, tears streamed down my face. On the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, slavery, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam Wesley Dean, Brown v Board, C. Vann Woodward, David Brion Davis, Donald Trump, Dorothy Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward, Francis B. Simkins, Harry Flood Byrd Sr., Heather Heyer, J. Lindsey Almond Jr., James J. Kilpatrick, Lewis F. Powell, Massive Resistance, Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones
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The revolution will not be televised
I hear the frustration of Bernie supporters. I too am frustrated at the cultural and institutional conservatism that has created a country where the accident of birth determines economic fate. In 240 years we’ve had a few shifts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Uncategorized, Virginia legislature
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Ralph Nader
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What I ponder at the Lincoln Memorial
What have I learned in 60 years? Take little for granted, other than that I will (likely) return home from a bike ride. At dawn I took my customary solstice/birthday pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial and faced the Washington Monument, … Continue reading
A few days in southern Utah . . .
. . . where a piece of the Trump administration’s environmental agenda is playing out, and where hordes of Americans (and foreigners) can’t get enough of the West. Fiery Furnace is a mind game
Posted in environment, National Park Service, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Environment
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Denouement of ‘repeal and replace’
As societies become more complex, the government (the instrument of our social compact) is called on to do more to arrange commerce – the exchange of goods and services. Market regulation is a necessary component of development, to ensure some … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Obamacare, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, taxes
The meaning and the drama of Trump’s budget
Newt Gingrich lives in President Trump’s first pass at a federal budget. The purpose of a budget – government, corporate or household – is to put vision in numbers. First identify the goals, the strategies to execute them and their … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, federal budget, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, federal budget, Mick Mulvaney, Newt Gingrich
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The Electoral College: Will no one rid us of this meddlesome relic?
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, the Electoral College is expected to demonstrate not only its uselessness but its destructiveness by choosing for president a candidate who lost the national popular vote by more than 2 … Continue reading
‘Change’ vs. our ossified process: It’s no contest
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King’s distillation of abolitionist Theodore Parker’s sermon is one of his most famous quotations. It resonates with us because we assume the universe is moral … Continue reading
Donald Trump gives the GOP its comeuppance
Upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Bill Moyers related decades later, President Johnson said, “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.” It’s a popular story (though its truth … Continue reading
