Once again, I’m the bearer of bad news. I’m very sorry to report that Jim is once again in the hospital on life support. On Saturday, July the 16th, I took Jim to the hospital because of chest pain. As you might expect, he was admitted to ICU and a series of tests were run. […]

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Thomas Jefferson, in his letter of September 12, 1821 to John Adams declares:

The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

How appropriate is it, at […]