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Comparing Donald Trump to the Circus Insults Circuses
Tweet Share on Facebook April 29, 2011 Comment (9)Donald Trump, you're no Phineas Taylor Barnum. Those who dare to compare you to P.T. Barnum—and there is some such chatter—are insulting the memory of a monumental American.
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National Cathedral's Rosa Parks Sculpture Brings Easter Epiphany
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2011 Comment (7)On a long-awaited April 24th, the spring sun lit up the sky, cathedral bells pealed across city blocks, and a sense of renewal rose on Easter Sunday in Washington. You don't have to be a believer to sense these things, particularly after a dark, gloomy Good Friday.
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The Poetry in Washington's Budget Deficit Battles
Tweet Share on Facebook April 19, 2011 Comment (3)It's National Poetry Month, which looks like a simple lark at first glance. But April is about right for our bittersweet national mood, if you believe what poets have written over the ages.
Oh April, are you the cruelest month? T.S. Eliot says so in the famed first line of The Wasteland, accusing you of:
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Really Congress? A Government Shutdown?
Tweet Share on Facebook April 8, 2011 Comment (26)Late-night notes from civil war Washington, girded for a shutdown of the biggest game in town and country, as I write. "Really, Congress?" as a 25-year-old friend summed up our American house divided.
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A Federal Government Shutdown Would Be an Assault on America
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2011 Comment (25)Shutting down the federal government is a hostile act against civil society.
The Civil War started 150 years ago in April 1861, and we are still getting over it, still talking about it, still writing about it. Some in the South have still not made peace with the end of the Civil War and hold fast to "heroes," notably General Robert E. Lee. President Abraham Lincoln showed what he thought of Lee when he seized Arlington, Lee's stately home and slave plantation across the Potomac River, and started burying the dead Union soldiers in the ground there.
