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March 29, 2025
The Regrettable One Drop Rule
In Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Idea of America,” a sentence in an essay on the American Dream caught my attention: “The original sin of America,…
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June 26, 2020
Roger Williams, Religious Freedom Pioneer
I don’t have any evidence that Roger Williams ever had influenza, and, as far as I know, the only connection between the virus and Pastor…
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July 29, 2018
I Liked and Like Ike
Published first a few years ago in an earlier blog. Dwight David (Ike) Eisenhower was the president of my youth, age 10 to 18 approximately,…
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July 28, 2018
Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
Originally published 4/29/2012 · republished 2018
(First published 4/29/2012) US Ambassador to Germany was not exactly a plum position in 1933, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to get to his…
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July 28, 2018
Paul Allen, No. 26
Originally published 11/09/2013 · republished 2018
Originally Posted 11/09/2013 Paul Allen, according to Forbes Magazine, had $15.8B and was the 26th richest US citizen as of April 2013. Concern about the…
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July 27, 2018
Harry Truman, Humble Public Servant
If you are of my general age, you are going to love “Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure” by Matthew Algeo. If you are a lot younger…
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January 27, 2018
American History Required Reading – The Boys in the Boat
This is just an experiment, posting screen shots of a post in my abandoned Google Permanentfixes Blog. I have been slowly deleting or updating and…
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September 4, 2016
Very Helpful US History Book
I am enjoying America’s Forgotten History, Part II, by Mark David Ledbetter. It is self published and available on Amazon Kindle for $1.50. Of course…
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August 25, 2016
Hard Times (November 30, 2011)
Originally published November 30, 2011 · republished 2016
When I started reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, I did a quick search on “Dust Bowl” for a little background information on the subject…
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August 21, 2016
Some Thoughts About George F. Babbitt (June 19, 2015)
Originally published June 19, 2015 · republished 2016
My memory is not what it used to be and never was that good, so, when a FB friend asked if I have read Babbitt…
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July 17, 2016
Richard John Neuhaus: Liberal Lutheran to Conservative Catholic (4/15/2015)
Originally published 4/15/2015 · republished 2016
A new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by Randy Boyagoda, does quadruple duty. It provides a well-researched and documented critical look at…
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