Category Archives: Politics

I’m asking you to believe…

“I’m asking you to believe, not in my ability to bring about real change in Washington. I’m asking you to believe in yours.” —Barack Obama.

If our American way of life fails the child…

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“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
—Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize winner

Mencken’s prophecy

On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: “On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Mencken was complaning about how to difficult it was for a good […]