Thomas Jefferson Tag

22 Jun Heart of Whiteness

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For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we would see them from Earth. More than 4 billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space,...

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07 Oct Profiles in Courage vs. Safety in Numbers

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At last we can proclaim a sentence so many Americans have been waiting for: the majority of registered voters—not just registered Democratic voters but all registered voters—now believe that Donald Trump should be impeached.

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17 Jun WWJS?

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I became so incandescent yet inarticulate with rage on hearing Trump say flat-out, whether from arrogance or ignorance or both, that of course he would accept foreign interference in U.S. elections if that would permit him to retain power, that rather than stammer any comment...

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10 Jun In Ourselves and Each Other We Trust

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Today I’m introducing a new, now-and-then feature into the blog: Reclaimed Anniversaries. Some of these reclaimed anniversaries will be to celebrate, some to grieve over, some to anger us.

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09 Jul The Founders vs. Donald J. Trump

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Where are the principled leaders who can help us through the crisis in which our Republic is flailing?

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14 May A Habitual Violation of the Constitution

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This week I want to focus on a small story that got insufficient coverage in the Trump glut of news, since it merely is about two of the most important founding principals of our Republic: freedom of speech and freedom of religion. You may have heard...

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05 Mar The Hidden History of The Second Amendment

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Last week, I referred to the genesis of the Second Amendment, and its original intent. The volume of listener response, stunned at hearing facts I mentioned in passing, made me realize it was time to revisit this subject in greater depth. I'd done just that...

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24 Jul 5 Facts and A Personal Vow

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This will be my last blog post until September—I think. I can't guarantee that some news development won't send me leaping to my keyboard, however, so those of you who subscribe to this blog might be surprised.

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29 May Enemy of the People

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Plans change. I'm tempted to write about Jared Kushner. I'm tempted to write about Trump's mortifying adventures abroad. Even before either of those stories broke, I'd intended to focus this week's post on the alternative to impeachment.

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