Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln

#2016 not so bad: “‘We’ve been divided in much, much worse fashion before, like 1861 when we were actually killing each other'”

Posted on November 6, 2016 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL History Repeats as Farce, Then as 2016 by Joseph Rago November 4, 2016 Americans elected the greatest president, Lincoln, four years after the worst, Buchanan, so there’s some hope that 2020 will redeem 2016, whoever wins on … Continue reading →

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O’s odd absence; 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

As luck would have it, I ended up booking an airbnb rental a block from Ford’s Theatre while in DC for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference (hotel rooms are crazy expensive this week perhaps due to Cherry Blossom mania). Tonight returning to … Continue reading →

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The Genesis of Justice

Posted on October 15, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

RABBI JONATHAN SACKS BLOG October 14, 2014 There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear in the first chapter of the Torah: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in … Continue reading →

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Obama does not accept war for what it is

Posted on August 2, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST by Eliot Cohen July 31, 2014 ……By 1864, Lincoln, Grant and Grant’s no-less-grim lieutenants William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan had concluded that their conflict had shifted to what historians call “the hard war.” They knew not only … Continue reading →

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