Tag Archives: Team of Rivals

The Patrick 55 and Super-Access Toll Road

Posted on February 8, 2015 by nowandthenadays

Don’t expect a rosy report from me regarding Texas’s new all-guy crop of officials who took office last month. To feel any hope whatsoever, you need to be uber-Christian, gun loving, anti-women’s choice and equal pay, or a big business … Continue reading →

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The Trouble with Men is . . .

Posted on June 30, 2011 by nowandthenadays

I am sure glad the  latest “politician acting badly” (PAB) scandal has gone by the wayside.  I don’t think I could handle any more revelations concerning what lives under Mr. Weiner’s underwear and in his mind.  If I hadn’t been … Continue reading →

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The Amazing Man who Stopped the Can

Posted on May 6, 2011 by nowandthenadays

Based on a friend’s high praise (from about 5 years ago), I finally knuckled down and immersed myself in the book, Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Within its 750 pages I discovered … Continue reading →

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