My own thought, better said. With Tom Wolfe, boundary between fact & fancy can be difficult to demarcate, but that was major part of his style, schtick and success. (View Post)

Haley is singed but NOT toast, methinks. Especially since her immediate prospects at the start of the New Year depend on her electoral performance in Iowa and New Hampshire - two of the Whitest state… (View Post)

Lincoln was born in Kentucky, a slave state. His family moved to Indiana, a free state, in large measure due to his father's dislike of slavery. Young Lincoln's personal antipathy to slavery began - … (View Post)

Leaving history to the historians - ha! ha! ha! Like leaving sex to the sexologists to talk and write about. (View Post)

Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expec… (View Post)