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In 1832, South Carolina held a state convention which adopted the Ordinance of Nullification. This Ordinance declared that the Federal Tariff of 1832 was "null and void." In effect, South Carolina was stating formally that a federal law dealing with a tariff law, which was felt to be
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Random House October 2016 In Ronald C. White's magisterial biography of Ulysses S. Grant, he quotes the following from President Grant's first inaugural address on March 4, 1869: "All laws will be faithfully executed,
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If you care about the collapse of the culture in America today, Hillbilly Elegy is a must-read. The author, J.D. Vance, has written an honest and penetrating portrait about growing up in Appalachia in a white, working-class family. An utterly dysfunctional family!
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There is no doubt about it: Michael Lewis is a wonderful storyteller. He demonstrated his skill in his beguiling autobiographical best seller, Liar's Poker. And again in The Blind Side and Moneyball. Then in 2010 came The Big Short — the fascinating story of a handful of hedge-fund managers
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A cardinal feature which has distinguished the American democratic experiment from most other nations in the modern era is that we have, with several major exceptions such as the Civil War, been a society under the rule of law. The best known expression of this principle is that the rule
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You have to go back to the 1896 presidential race between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley to find an historical parallel to the contest in 2016 between the three finalists: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the great majority of American citizens know virtually nothing about President
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On Saturday a week ago, some friends and I went to the Zac Brown Band concert at Fenway Park. My friends suggested that we take the Framingham/Worcester line of the Commuter Rail, as Yawkey station is less than 200 yards from the stadium. It seemed like an excellent idea,
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Why is it that in the last 40 years, the only American ambassadors to get murdered were when Democratic administrations were in office? Before Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi in 2012 on the evening of Sept. 11, the last American ambassador to be killed was Adolph Dubs during