Appomattox Gearing Up For Surrender
150 years ago yesterday, the prospects of the Army of Northern Virginia got even dimmer. Its second to last battle was fought in the evening as cavalry under the...
Still Some More Blood To Effuse
Lynchburg VA April 8, 2015 150 years ago yesterday Ulysses Grant wrote Robert E Lee indicating that he thought maybe that recent events should have indicated that the...
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.