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The public is invited to join a celebration for the Richard Samuelson Pavilion at Lake Byllesby Park.

Often people give Jane Adams sweaters that were worn by loved ones who died. She sews transforms them into pillows, creating "a pleasant memory."

On this anniversary of the Tea Party, as we begin the 250th celebration of the American Revolution, we ought to begin, once again, to think seriously about what it means to live in a democratic republic, and how we might sustain it for another 250 years.

Where does this blindness come from? Why are so many people who think of themselves as crusaders for justice so misguided? It is a complicated story.

Article III of the Constitution, which creates the judicial branch, notes that if an alleged crime is “not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.” In other words, Congress has discretion to set the venue for trials relating to alleged crimes in the federal district.

Richard Samuelson has written a letter defending the family of Jack Letts

"To have a free, democratic republic without an education that inspires young citizens to love their country, and to desire to keep it worth loving on one hand, and, on the other, to raise such citizens without a serious religious education is unlikely to produce anything good or lasting" - Richard Samuelson, professor of Hillsdale College pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

No, this headline is not a reference to the chaos in the House of Representatives. Rather it refers to the latest disgrace of the NFL team formerly known as the Redskins. The Washington Football Team, as it has been known the last three seasons, decided to become The Commanders, which, Richard Samuelson points out, is quite fitting for the age of the administrative state in Washington, which prefers to govern by

John Adams, with advice germane to public education just now: It should be your care, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them a habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep

This week offers a hybrid car of an episode—almost literally as it turns out—as John Yoo was traveling midweek when Lucretia and I gathered in person with Richard Samuelson to record the first half, reviewing his reflections on the significance of the “Washington Football Team” deciding to name themselves the “Commanders,” which rather fits the administrative state today, no? From there we go on to observe that just when you