"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
"Who votes on issues? Please. People vote on iconography, what club they want to be in." ~ Dee Davis, Center for Rural Strategies
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The Irish Elk wishes there were still a Pat Moynihan Club.
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The conservative and the tory may be allies, but they are not the same creatures...Those closest to being tories in America today are those who call themselves (Scoop) Jackson Democrats. ~ Henry Fairlie, "If Pooh Were President: A tory's riposte to Reaganism," Harper's, May, 1984.
"The only thing I want to know about a man is which side he would like his ancestors to have fought on at Marston Moor." ~ Isaac Foot
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"[Al Smith's] campaign song, 'The Sidewalks of New York,' still moves me as 'Dixie' moves a Southerner..." Dean Acheson, A Democrat Looks at His Party, 1955