Dear friends on the left,
I understand how giddy you are about the news today that Obama will accept the nomination at Invesco field. I’ve followed your Obamagasms over the past week as the rumor has floated, then gained traction, and finally this morning was stamped in reality.
I get that you are excited that Obama will [...]
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain. America, America God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
In 1893, a young teacher by the name of Katharine Lee Bates, scribbled these words into a notebook after [...]