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Separated at birth?
Calvin Coolidge: and Barack Obama (in another hagiographic AP piece)?
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Barack Obama: the lazy manager of a frantic government
Calvin Coolidge was famed for sleeping 12 hours a day, and generally not working up a sweat. His work ethic was consistent with his belief about government’s role. He was an old-fashioned Republican...
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The Bookworm Beat 5-4-15 — the “technology hates me” edition and open thread
My post caption to the contrary, this post has nothing to do with technology — except that technology explains why I started writing at 10:30, not 8:30. My computer apparently had a sudden yen to...
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Thinking about Coolidge and the Depression leads me to Obama thoughts
I don’t know how long the sale will last, but if you go to Amazon now, you can get Amity Shlaes’s Calvin Coolidge biography for only $1.99. Considering what a good writer and thinker Shlaes is, I...
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July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated (Updated)
The Declaration of Independence was written for the colonists, to justify our call to arms, and to Britain’s enemies, to assure them of our intent. Below is the Declaration of Independence annotated...
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History, Holidays & Observances on January 5, Twelfth Night
12th Night, James Watt & the Industrial Revolution; Henry Ford & the Economics of Labor, Louis XV, Benedict Arnold, Raid on Richmond, German Workers Party, 1st Female Governor, Golden Gate...
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