Comments on: Let’s Ban President’s Day http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lets-ban-presidents-day/ Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Sat, 25 May 2013 21:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: American Elephant http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lets-ban-presidents-day/#comment-16752 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:01:23 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=31768#comment-16752 Thanks for the info, Subsidy. I will look into it.

]]> By: Subsidy Eye http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lets-ban-presidents-day/#comment-16747 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:41:48 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=31768#comment-16747 I agree. President’s Day means nothing to me. I wonder how many school children even know the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington.

Speaking of things apocryphal, the quote on your side bar, which you attribute to George W., “Government is not reason; it is not elequent; it is force!” is also apocryphal:

http://www.volokh.com/2010/04/14/government-is-not-reason-it-is-not-eloquence-it-is-force/

http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2009/11/12/dubious-origins-of-a-george-washington-quote-on-government/

]]> By: Walter http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lets-ban-presidents-day/#comment-16732 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:22:13 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=31768#comment-16732 Abraham Lincoln’s statesmanship in saving the Union was wasted effort, given the current state of the union and its directions under Obama

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