I had to run to the doctor’s office tonight. The back of my leg (just above the calf muscle) has been giving me fits for a couple days and, since I couldn’t diagnose it, I figured I’d get a second (well, actually a first) opinion. It turned into a big nothing…a bit of tendonitis. I’ve [...]
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The Flat Tax: An Idea Whose Time Already Came
Posted in Civil War period (1861-1865), Lincoln's administrations (1861-April 15, 1865), United States, tagged 1861, Flat Tax, Income Tax, President Abraham Lincoln, Revenue Act of 1861 on August 5 | 2 Comments »
Lincoln’s Sword
Posted in Lincoln's administrations (1861-April 15, 1865), tagged Civil War, Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address on March 4 | 1 Comment »
March 4th was Inauguration Day in the U.S. until 1933 when the Twentieth Amendment relocated it to January.
As luck would have it, yesterday I finished reading Douglas Wilson’s prize-winning Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. It’s a magnificent book that shows Lincoln’s grasp of words and writing and how he used them to [...]
