What’s Up, Document?

January 26, 2011

The National Archives has accused a researcher of changing the date on a document signed by Abraham Lincoln. Here’s the Washington Post account: The Archives on Monday accused [Thomas] Lowry of altering the pardon in plain view in the agency’s main research room to amplify its historical significance. Lincoln had indeed issued a pardon to [...]

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The Roots of American Order

January 25, 2011

Daniel J. Mahoney in The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: “Liberty understood as pure freedom unconnected to larger ends and purposes fatally undermines the dialectics of truth and liberty, and liberty and virtue, that define truly human existence. There can be no liberty without authoritative traditions and institutions, or without openness to the demands [...]

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Hillsdale Bound

January 20, 2011

I’ve just read some interesting news: Hillsdale College announced today that John J. Miller, national correspondent for National Review, will join the Hillsdale College faculty this coming Fall as director of the College’s Dow Journalism Program. That’s from the Hillsdale College press release. Yes, it’s true. After nearly two decades in Washington, D.C., the Millers [...]

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Marxmanship

January 18, 2011

“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news,” said the 19th-century journalist Charles A. Dana. (He also gave us another famous line: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”) Dana is credited with hiring Karl Marx as a foreign correspondent for the New [...]

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The First Manassassin?

January 15, 2011

It looks like the Manassas Park police department needs to invest in a spellcheck program. Because there’s no fourth “S” in Manassas. Good thing they keep the streets safe, just a few miles from my home and a stone’s throw from the first battle of the Civil War. My local paper has the story.

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Two Termers

January 12, 2011

Has there ever been a U.S. president whose second term was better than his first term? Why are presidential second terms so often disappointing? Please enter your thoughts in the comment section. UPDATE: Thanks to all who posted. Feel free to keep the comments coming. Additional thoughts from readers are here.

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