April 12, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Good morning! 71 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died while having his portrait painted at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The Little White House is well worth a visit, and nearby FDR State Park is one of Georgia’s gems.
Today’s Reads:
- Beverly Cleary is 100 years old! A few things:
- Rereading these books as an adult (and we’ve all read at least one of these books at some point, right?), it’s striking how independent and unsupervised the children in her books are, compared with contemporary children.
- Also, wow, reading these as an adult brought home how the Quimby family was on an economic precipice.
- My favorite Cleary character is Ellen Tebbits. Who is yours (either human or animal)?
- The Economist analyzes the American primary system.
- The Library of Congress will eliminate the term “illegal aliens” from their reference catalog.
- Oh, Trump Progeny: bless your hearts.
- Several Georgians are volunteering in Syrian refugee camps.
- Lobbyists in Georgia spent more than $500,000 in Q1.
- Don’t feel like trekking through Ocmulgee National Monument? Google is mapping the trails and now, all you need to experience the trails and historic earthworks is internet access.
- Meanwhile – take note, Georgia coast as well as anywhere that could be devastated by, say, a tornado, so, take note, all of Georgia! – the Atlantic Cities outlines why historic preservation needs to be considered when planning for disasters.
- College athletic departments now have 90 days to respond to open records requests. Sports!
- Stop – Hamiltime!: Is “Hamilton” historically accurate? (Mostly.) Does it gloss over slavery? (Eh, kind of, but not really, no.)
About Author
Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Glad to see the Library of Congress banning the true term ‘illegal alien.’ “Onward PC Soldiers , marching as to war”…
Hamilton was a great and ambitious Federalist and while opposed to salvery would not find it politically expedient to make it his primary cause. Same can be said of a Democrat today that would oppose abortion for birth control.
As a Federalist he strongly opposed the Bill of Rights.
“I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous.”
I just finished Chernow’s biography of Hamilton and like many of his fellow biographers I feel he did have him too high on a pedestal. I’m still happy that Madison got to write the bulk of the Constitution even if Hamilton wrote the bulk of The Federalist Papers. He would have been thrilled to have been Chamberlain or Master of the Coin to a King Washington. Strange when you consider he was the least “gentle born” of his fellow founders. Washington found slavery to be unsavory as well but it didn’t keep him from enjoying the lifestyle and privilege endowed to him from their ownership.
Good to see the prostitutes are still being paid during their 40 day vacation even though the same prostitutes supposedly passed ‘some of the toughest ethics laws’ a few years ago.
From this point forward, I promise I will not vote for any incumbent who participates in the system whereby they are wined and dined by lobbyists to influence their votes (or lack thereof which happens more often). I have no problem with unlimited money being available in politics, but I do have a problem with those who immerse themselves in benefiting from the endless stream of benjamins. It is a test of moral character to refrain from participation as just another elected prostitute. Unfortunately most fail.
LOVE Beverley Cleary. Ralph the mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle is my favorite.