As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“The return of a rare Bible to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is more than a homecoming — it is a reminder that the Geneva Bible has been part of this country’s religious heritage since the beginning.” - U.S. News
Women often think that “owe their lives to the women (i.e., feminists) who came before them. After all, that’s what they’ve been told over and over and over again. It’s a lie. Technology, labor-saving devices, and reliable birth control are what liberated women from the taxing work of child care and household maintenance.
“One hundred years ago today, the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified, prohibiting “intoxicating liquors” in the United States and launching the era known as Prohibition. Here are nine things you should about Prohibition and how the religiously inspired temperance movement transformed America.” - TGC
“On May 18, 1927, a deranged and embittered farmer named Andrew Kehoe committed the worst school mass killing in American history.” Intellectual Takeout
A campaign speech by General James Garfield, who became the 20th President of the United States a few months later. Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Printed Ephemera Collection.
New York, August 6, 1880
“Monday is the 90th anniversary of a day significant both in the rise of America’s culture war and the fall of American journalism.” WORLD
“There is no other discrete set of sources that will similarly transport us into colonial America”
“To acknowledge that England was Catholic in the fifteenth century and Protestant by the seventeenth century, and then to deny that America had a Christian beginning seems pretty naive.” Christian nation? Part 1: Mark Noll, George Washington, and revisionism
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Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com
President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) is known as “the Great Communicator” not merely because he had the polished delivery of an accomplished actor, but because he actually had something substantial to say and often said it very well (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”).
Among the tools of effective communication is the employment of suitable quotes, aphorisms and stories to illustrate or drive home a point or to clarify an idea. Mr. Reagan had a sizeable private stash of quotes and quips and jokes that he had accumulated over the decades, all written out by hand on 4” x 6” cards, ready to be accessed as needed. This stack of cards was kept close at hand in his personal desk drawer for easy reference. At his death, the contents of his desk were boxed up and deposited in the Reagan Presidential Library in California. During some renovations in 2010, this stack of hand-written cards was rediscovered, and a selection of them is herein compiled and published.
The quotes, stories and jokes are divided up into nine sections, viz., “On the Nation,” “On Liberty,” “On War,” “On the People,” “On Religion,” “The World,” “On Character,” “On Political Theater,” and “Humor.” These are followed by a “glossary”—really a brief description of named authors quoted—and a topical index.
Many of the quotations are outstanding—I quote a few of the crème de la crème below (having to leave out many very good ones), but unfortunately, none is documented in the book beyond naming the original author. Reagan’s cards did not provide chapter and page references, but the editor should have, as far as he was able, provided documentation.
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