A political sign sums up what the majority of the nation has lived through for four years.

Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally.

Colorado State Fairgrounds. Pueblo, Colorado.

Sept. 15, 2008

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

“We made the experiment; and the fruit is before us,” Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Slavery. 1857-1858 ca.

President Abraham Lincoln was correct: we cannot escape history.

The American Civil War will forever fascinate me, not just the battlefield glory but the politics that ground this American experiment in democracy to a halt 150 years ago.

The battleship illustrated was on a mission to draw artillery fire from entrenched Confederates at Vicksburg, Mississippi. As the Confederates spent their dwindling ammunition reserves, the Union naval officers celebrated their broadcasted fakeout, the ship was a hoax, made of wood.