Category Archives: Robert E. Lee

Thoughts on the Anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s Birth

Posted on 19 January 2015 by danmillerinpanama

This is a re-post of an article I wrote last year to celebrate the anniversary of General Lee’s birth on January 19, 1807. My concerns for the future remain about the same, although the current threats to freedom of speech and of religion from Islam … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, General Lee

Posted on 17 January 2014 by danmillerinpanama

This is a “revised and extended” re-post of an article I wrote in 2011 to mark an anniversary of General Lee’s death. It celebrates instead the two hundred and seventh anniversary of his birth on January 19, 1807, a happier … Continue reading →

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An Historic Event for my blog

Posted on 27 October 2013 by danmillerinpanama

One of my posts on the Civil War just got its 40,000th “view.” On December 27, 2011, I posted an article titled The U.S. Constitution and Civil War. It had 42 views that year, 18,728 in 2012 and has had … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s Birth

Posted on 18 January 2013 by danmillerinpanama

This is a “revised and extended” re-post of an article I wrote in 2011 to mark an anniversary of General Lee’s death. It celebrates the two hundred and sixth anniversary of his birth on January 19, 1807, a happier occasion. … Continue reading →

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We can Waste Time or to Begin to Solve our Problems.

Posted on 12 November 2012 by danmillerinpanama

There are many pleasant actions that can be taken that won’t do any good. There are others that might at least begin to do some good. These won’t do much good beyond diverting attention from our problems and maybe providing … Continue reading →

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Alice in Supreme Court Land

Posted on 30 June 2012 by danmillerinpanama

Alice had a strange time in Wonderland. Here’s what she would have encountered had she fallen down the rabbit hole into the Supreme Court. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, she encountered the Red Queen, the Mad … Continue reading →

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Has Honor become an Anachronism?

Posted on 5 January 2012 by danmillerinpanama

A few quaint vestiges persist and others are salvageable. In May of last year, I wrote an article about the University of Virginia Honor Code and charges that a student then about to be graduated from the School of Law … Continue reading →

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The U.S. Constitution and civil war

Posted on 27 December 2011 by danmillerinpanama

Emasculating the Constitution is bad way to preserve the nation. The first shots in the United States Civil War were fired by the South during an attack on Fort Sumter a century and a half ago on April 12, 1861, … Continue reading →

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Shall we have another Civil War?

Posted on 10 August 2011 by danmillerinpanama

That would be a very bad idea. Unhappiness approaching panic is in the air. This article by Roger Kimball suggests some of the reasons: The American poet Frank O’Hara wrote a poem whose title I’ve always admired: “Meditations in an … Continue reading →

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An Analogy for the Debt Mess Resolution.

Posted on 4 August 2011 by danmillerinpanama

It’s time to look for the good that can be accomplished and to make it happen. Complaining about past deficiencies will retard rather than advance that process. Let me offer a military analogy.  The first battle in the war has … Continue reading →

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