Here is Jake Tapper at CNN: Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has told friends that President Donald Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever known.” The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to […]
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A Message to Irish-Catholic Trump Supporters
John Gehring, the Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, sends an important reminder to pro-Trump Catholics who think immigrants are “too lazy to get off their asses.” Here is a taste of his piece at Commonweal: Kelly, an Irish-American...
Still More on John Kelly’s Civil War Comments
In addition to my analysis of Kelly’s remarks and Carole Emberton’s Washington Post op-ed, I also want to call your attention to Jennifer Schuessler’s New York Times piece on this controversy. It is a nice overview of the various compromises that took place from...
More on Kelly’s Civil War Remarks
I addressed Kelly’s remarks yesterday. Today I want to point you to Binghamton University historian Carole Emberton’s piece, “The North tried compromise. The South chose war.” A taste: By blaming a failure of compromise for the Civil War, Kelly repeated...
Thoughts on John Kelly’s Civil War Comments
I am teaching the Civil War this semester. In fact, I have class tonight. I am thinking of starting the class with John Kelly’s recent claim that the Civil War was caused by “the lack of an ability to compromise.”...