With regret, this will be the last post this editor will make to this blog. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I now find it necessary to leave the history blogger project sponsored by WorldHistory.com.
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
A Farewell
Monday, November 20, 2006
On Bad Habits of Thinking and Not Facing Reality as The UN Meets to Discuss Climate Change
Thursday, November 16, 2006
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Bad habits of thought cloud our judgement and our ability to perceive what is right.
Comments by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week reflect back to Thomas Paine’s words. Speaking in Nairobi, Kenya at a United National Climate Change [...]
A Farewell to Ed Bradley
Friday, November 10, 2006
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
So long Mr. Bradley, you were one of the good [...]
On the Limitations of Political Party and the Grand Experiment of Our Forefathers
Friday, November 10, 2006
It is the nature and intention of a constitution to prevent governing by party, by establishing a common principle that shall limit and control the power and impulse of party, and that says to all parties, thus far shalt thou go and no further. But in the absence of a constitution, men look entirely to [...]
On Getting Out the Vote
Monday, November 6, 2006
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it”
Is a danger in a free and individualistic society that too much of it breeds complacency? Many eligible voters don’t bother to vote because they feel it doesn’t make any difference – or just couldn’t be bothered.
Perhaps at [...]
On Evangelical Leader Ted Haggard
Friday, November 3, 2006
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
On Wednesday, Ted Haggard was a prominent leader in the Evangelical movement and Senior Pastor of The New Life Church. A man of purported high moral character.
On Thursday and Friday Mr. Haggard’s association with a gay prostitute and his purchase of methamphetamine came to light. Even if only for [...]
On Using Fear as a Basis for Argument and Policy
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
“When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.”
No political party is immune from the tendency of raising the spectre of fear when its policies are questioned, and most notably [...]
On One More Week Until the Midterm Elections
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
“To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”
May we all find reason as we prepare to due our civic duty - just as Thomas Paine would have wanted.
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