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Now we know what you're thinking: if we have on as a special guest historian Richard Samuelson, one of the pre-eminent experts on John Adams, you'd think we find out what Adams thought about the Clean Air Act, but no! Instead, the show reaches its zenith with Samuelson drawing our attention to some of Adams's handwritten marginalia that demonstrates why Adams would have completely understood the Sweeney Sensation.
Richard joined us for our intermittent series between now and next July 4 about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and he helpfully arbitrated the debate we had last week about the probity of Gordon Wood's treatment of the American creed. (Readers should also not miss Samuelson's article "John Adams Versus Edmund Burke," which helps clarify the extent to which Adams should be thought of (as Russell Kirk did) as "America's first conservative."
We also went through a couple of current headlines about the latest frontiers in lawfare, and the aftermath of the shooting of two national guard troops in Washington.
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Because John wasn’t blind?
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I endorse Chef Hayward's popovers wholeheartedly.
And the linked Samuelson piece is excellent.
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I propose to settle this and all future Thanksgiving cooking arguments by a simple expedient. I will award victory to the party that bribes me the most.
Also,
MORE CLEAN AIR ACT CONTENT!!
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Doing nothing, leaving the kid alone, has been labeled ‘conversion therapy’ , radical life destroying surgery is labeled merely “affirmation’. I chuckled at the anti-climax line anyway.
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There should be verdicts of guilty by reason of insanity.
For the illegal invasion criminals I’m in favor of half-deportation, a helicopter ride about 100 miles out over the ocean and heave ho out you go.
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