Today, politeness is practically anathema. No one, in this country or abroad, seems to feel the necessity to act toward others with any form of courtesy, tactfulness, respectful and deferential behavior, or consideration in order to get the job done.…
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While JD Vance may have done well in school, what he definitely added to his Yale Law School class was the diversity of being former military, not from an Ivy League school (the largest source of Yale Law School entrants) and, as he wrote, distinctly not from the middle class. He was, as he put it so eloquently in his book, a “hillbilly.”…
Letter from Douglas B. Lansing Voters Urged to Think First Some shared thoughts as you head to the polls: Each candidate for each election should be evaluated based on their own merit. In my opinion, voting only “for my team” or “against your team” is lazy American citizenship. Down-ballot voting is dangerous for all of us. American democracy has veered from our Founding Fathers’ intended destination. We, the citizens of America, have to bring the American Republic back on course.…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Adams Lost After One Term, But Eventually Got Over It (After retiring, one-term President John) Adams led a quiet life, tending to his farm, while Jefferson’s presidency came and went. Twelve years after he left Washington, Adams finally snapped out of his funk and sent a letter to his old rival… Jefferson wrote back immediately, remembering the long years in which “we were fellow laborers in the same cause.” For the next 14 years, a fountain of…
