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An Overdue Appreciation of "Crazy" Mary Todd Lincoln

The widow of President Abraham Lincoln ,  Mary Todd Lincoln, went nuts after three of her four sons died before their maturities, and her husband  was assassinated. Her last living son locked her up in a loony bin. She is dismissed by history as a shrew, a nag, a spendthrift, a woman with a permanent case of PMS. This Blog would like the Reader to recast Mary Todd in a new light, as one of the most momentous women in history, and THE most momentous woman in  American history. Mary Todd came from a very influential Kentucky family, closely allied with that titan of American politics, Henry Clay, the original War Hawk. Clay had been  Senator from Kentucky, Secretary State of the United States and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, everything but President. And oh how  Mr. Clay wanted to be President, but he never pulled it off. As a flirtatious young girl, up to the age of 14, Mary would sit on the lap of her family friend, Senator Henry Clay and in h...

As the Colorado River Dries Up, So Will America's Compassion for Migrants...is that Racism?

On February 24, 2017, this Blogger published; http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2017/02/ trump s-nationalism-saving-mexican.html The following is excerpted from that Blog: “The  Trump  voters gave Donald  Trump  a mandate when they elected him President; the mandate was to make the United States as UNATTRACTIVE as  possible to migrants. Why would they do that? The Liberals believe that the motivation of the  Trump  voters was pure racism. This Blogger disagrees; the pure motivation for the mandate is pure mathematics. ”A third of adults in sub-Saharan Africa say they would like to migrate permanently. So would a fifth of Latin  America ns and one in 10 South and East Asians, according to a Gallup World poll from 2010.  About a quarter of these potential  migrants  — 145  million  adults — would like to live in the United States …...NEW YORK TIMES. ….When do Liberals want to make  Am...