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What if Truman hadn’t used the bomb?
Would humanity be better off? Or extinct?
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Ballad of the Presidents: Reagan to Trump
If Reagan had been a more talented actor He’d not have become a political factor But one thing he learned and remembered by heart: Success as a prez…
Jan 20
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Ballad of the Presidents: Kennedy to Carter
Kennedy stumbled first out of the blocks By heeding advice of the Washington hawks Giving approval to covert invasion Compounding folly with…
Jan 18
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Overrinsured?
Peace of mind doesn't come free
Jan 17
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Washington no Cincinnatus
He knew better
Jan 16
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Ballad of the Presidents: Truman and Eisenhower
Truman had doubts he was fit for the office One might have thought he would therefore be cautious Time, though, permitted no settling in With fate in…
Jan 15
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If Lincoln had let the secessionists go
Roads not taken
Jan 14
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Ballad of the Presidents: Harding to FDR
Of Warren G.
Jan 13
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25 for 25. Declining birthrates (2010s)
In the 18th century Benjamin Franklin quantified a defining characteristic of American life.
Jan 11
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Ballad of the Presidents: TR to Wilson
Theodore, Teddy or simply TR The youthful New Yorker uplifted the bar His sense of himself often blurred into parody He made of the prez a prestigious…
Jan 10
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25 for 25. The iPhone (2007)
Computers started big.
Jan 9
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Ships of stone, sails of lead
Revolution comes for America
Jan 8
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