Artist Creates Amazing Optical Illusions Using Simple Lines
Katy Ann Gilmore is a Los Angles-based artist. She has a degree in
mathematics so it’s not hard to see where she takes most of her
inspiration from – her works are highly detailed, rhythmic and
symmetrical, much like an elegant equation.
Richard Nixon thought George H. W. Bush “a good man with good
intentions … but no discernible pattern of political principle …
no political rhythm, no conservative cadence, and not enough
charismatic style to compensate.” And part of the bipartisan praise of
him that we are hearing now is because Democrats love Republican leaders
they can defeat, as we recently saw with John McCain, and their hatred
of Trump propels them to canonize a preceding president who was such a
decent man. Personally, he was unfailingly gracious, modest, and
likeable. James Baker reckons the late President Bush the country’s best
one-term president. I would give that honor to Nixon (using an elastic
definition of “one-term”), followed by James K. Polk, with Mr. Bush
contending honorably with John Adams.
With all that said, not every president is a Lincoln or Washington or
Roosevelt (of either party). And the president the nation now mourns
was a fine and admirable man and leader, a brave patriot, and a great
gentleman. Service was his honor and his vocation, in peace and war (and
he is the last president who served in combat). He deserves every word
and gesture of admiration he receives this week.
I am grateful for a number of Trump’s policies. Some of his actions —
including his Supreme Court nominations — have been better than Bush’s.
Some have been worse. But a nation and a movement that is attempting
not just to construct a government but also to build a culture would do
well to abandon the fake masculinity of the current president in favor
of the true character and strength of the man who has passed.
George H. W. Bush a wimp? No, he was a man in full. Decency requires
strength. The conservative movement (and our nation) would do well to
remember that vital truth.
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