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The following is a piece that I found among on my desktop files after a most singular session of my Monmouth College class on Political Biography. We had been studying Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and Frederick Douglass, escaped …

“All presidents inherit problems. It’s part of the territory.”
The speaker was a self-described moderate Democrat, a good guy, someone I like and respect. The purpose of his statement was to join the stampeding herd of critics who claim that Barack Obama’s …

Ronald Reagan was a nice guy with a more or less coherent ideology and a soothing voice. In his own way, he undoubtedly loved his country. But he did not fully understand either the greatness or the limitations of his country, instead fastening …



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