“… from these honored dead we take increased devotion … that this nation … shall have a new birth of freedom … and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” —Abraham Lincoln, from his Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863) I wonder what Lincoln would think […]
Archives for November 2013
Fifty Years Later: Memories of the Assassination of a President
I was seventeen on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That was 50 years ago this week. November 22 fell on a Friday in 1963, as it does, coincidentally, this year. I was a high school senior and had just completed a practice drive with two other classmates and our Driver’s Ed. teacher […]
Reviewing Baseball’s 2013 Season: From Marathon Massacre to World Champs
If it is true that there is an inherent poetry to the game of baseball, then the way the season began and ended, opening with tragedy in the same city that celebrated the triumph of its team at the end, was the stuff that poet’s feast on. On April 15, just as the annual Patriots’ […]
On Morality and Freedom and Government’s Role in Promoting Them
“We get the government we deserve.” —Alexis de Tocqueville “… government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish …” —Abraham Lincoln “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” —Thomas Jefferson I have received a […]