Barred from Office

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Campaign Rhetoric

“[I]t is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.” 

—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, author and curmudgeon, A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1949

 





• Editorial Comment: Overqualified.





PeezPix by Ted Pease

December sunrise, Cache Valley, Utah, 2010





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