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Read more: A single thing in natureMy brother James and his wife Jeany have 14 turkeys on their nine acres in New Mexico. That 14 includes five babies and one mother…
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Read more: Age is relativeBecause I have a birthday coming up, I chuckled when I read this line from Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish writer. “If you are over eighty,…
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Read more: To be lovedI just returned from attending my nephew Will’s engagement party in New Mexico. Attending the party reminded me of a quote from George Sand: “There…
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Read more: Politics and conscienceLincoln’s motives were moral as well as political—a reminder that our finest presidents are those committed to bringing a flawed nation closer to the light,…
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Read more: White supremacyEdward Alfred Pollard wrote a book called The Lost Cause Regained in 1868. In his book, he argued: Slavery was lost, but white supremacy could…
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Read more: Changing your mind?Once, when someone accused Abraham Lincoln of changing his mind, Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have, and I don’t think much of a man who is…
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Read more: Atheists, socialists and communists?James Henley Thornwell, a Presbyterian clergyman who defended slavery before the Civil War, once said: “The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and…
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Read more: Goodness is possibleAmericans sometimes fall short of their ideals, concludes John Meacham in this book Abraham Lincoln–And There Was Light. “It is a fact of American history…
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Read more: Common rights and respectIn his book about Abraham Lincoln–And There Was Light, John Meacham writes: “This book charts Lincoln’s struggle as he defined it within the political universe…
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Read more: Maternal mortalityThese are bleak statistics. The United States ranks 46th in the world for maternal mortality, reports Ms. magazine And, the United States is the only…