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The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…

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May 12, 2011

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Kudos for Barack..But

By Jim Hoover Barack, I know you have been busy. I followed your schedule last week. While House Republicans were trying to reinvent the truth about their House voting against Medicare, you were producing your long-form birth certificate to shame Trump, who has none; comforting disaster victims in the…

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May 8, 2011

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Leadership is More Important Than Politics

By: Michael Tuosto Linda Chavez expressed her opinion about President Barack Obama’s personal life in her article entitled O’s Tax Hypocrisy. Her message was essentially that Barack Obama shouldn’t be taken seriously when he talks about eliminating itemized deductions for the top two percent of earners because he himself…

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April 23, 2011

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Hoping For a Change

By: James Daniels Most people could not wait for the Bush years to be over. With a deficit that was increasing at a mind-boggling rate, unpopular wars, and a host of other major problems, the country was ready for a change. And who could have been better to replace…

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April 21, 2011

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More War

By: Michael Tuosto The Orwellian vision of a perpetual war going on “over there” is becoming eerily relevant. Elisabeth Bumiller and Kereem Fahim reported in The New York Times that, “Pentagon officials are eager to extract the United States from a third armed conflict in a Muslim country as…

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April 7, 2011

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Tricky Ricks and Scary Scott

By Jim Hoover Why are these men smiling? Well, they have reason to smile. They conned voters into electing them governor. From left to right, it is Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, Rick Scott, governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. There are other Republican governors, candidates…

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March 31, 2011

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Libya and the American Gun Debate

By: Michael Tuosto Often the American 2nd Amendment gun debate revolves around tragedies like the one in Tuscon, Ariz. This is understandable since it was a tragedy “close to home." In fact, at our home, America. For me, the renewed efforts to further restrict gun rights, due to this…

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March 22, 2011