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We Hold Which Truths to be Self-Evident?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Globalgiving, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Civitl Rights, Barack Obama, Gettysburg Address, Politics News

Though all men were declared equal in 1776, a terrible political compromise meant people of certain racial heritages were not considered full men.

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How Proposition 8 Kept Me From Getting Laid

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Gay Marriage, Supreme Court, Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Prop 8, Reynolds v. United States, Thomas Jefferson, Mormonism, Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, California Prop 8, Politics News

The irony that the same Mormon religion that has battled for the rights of the polygamous was at the forefront of Prop 8 aside, the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that the law of the land superseded the mores of a religion.

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Thomas Jefferson Proved That Every Vote, Indeed, Does Count

Jerry Waxman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Aaron Burr, Election Advocacy, Jefferson Election 2008, Jefferson 1800, John Adams, Votes Count 2008, Thomas Jefferson, Election 2008 Votes, Home News

I've been blessed over the years to have worked with some incredible talent on stage, whose ability to communicate holds me in awe. J. D. Sutton is a ...

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Five Reasons Why Obama Is Mr. Self-Actualized

Caroline Presno | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eleanor Roosevelt, Self Actualized, Abraham Lincoln, Election 2008, Psychology, Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, Abraham Maslow, Politics News

Throughout the '08 campaign, Barack Obama has given every indication that he is the definition of self-actualized.

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America Doesn't Need More Strict Constructionist Judges

Paul Diamond | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Amendment, Judicial Activism, Supreme Court Justice, Supreme Court, Constructionist, Judiciary, Thomas Jefferson, Mccain, Constitution, Bush, Home News

The Constitution does not exist in a vacuum. People look to the courts to answer how the law applies today to the circumstances they face brought on by social and technological changes.

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Abolish the Electoral College: House Joint Resolution 36

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 09.22.2008 | Chicago

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The race is no longer about delegates, party rules, or even the popular vote, it's now about electoral votes. And because the race is close, once again a major Constitutional flaw is exposed--the Electoral College.

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I.O.U.S.A. - Fury at (GOP) Fiscal Fiasco

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.17.2008 | Business

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I.O.U.S.A., the movie, makes you angry about America's debts. It doesn't dwell on which political party is most to blame. But the record is pretty cle...

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On Star Wars, Homeless Men, and Sarah Palin

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

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Most of us have had to settle for Miss Congeniality rather than Miss Alaska in the beauty pageant of life. But just because we can relate to Palin doesn't mean she should be in a position to become president.

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What Books on America Has Sarah Palin Read?

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Harriet Tubman, George W. Bush, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Balkans, Matt Damon, Sarah Palin, Aaron Burr, Yoshiro Mori, Condleezza Rice, Constitutional Convention, American History, Middle East, Suffragists, Political Literacy, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Robert D. Kaplan, Winston Churchill Charles De Gaulle, Books, Washington Prize, Mao Tse Tung, Thomas Jefferson, Machiavelli, Konrad Adenauer, George Washington, Tom Delay, John Adams, Eastward to Tartary, Reading, Ron Chernow, Cicero, Caucasus, Politics News

I think that if ABC has another shot at her, or if any other journalists get to spend any time on this uncertain gamble for the second highest office in the land, they should give her a book test.

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Sarah Palin: A Right-Wing Gidget for Leader of the Free World

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

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Watching the Republican convention tonight, I was struck by a number of things, most notably how the prime-time star speakers whipped up the audience ...

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Media and Political Things to Ponder While Stuck in Traffic

Tom Alderman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Media

• If a Walter Cronkite auditioned for a major news anchor job today, he would not get on the call-back sheet. The moustache, alone, would kil...

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Rick Warren Interviews Thomas Jefferson

Kerry Candaele | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

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"The modern tendency, to turn every conversation and shared search for answers to serious questions of statecraft, into a therapy session is both baffling and self-defiling."

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Obama/Gore 2008

Norman MacAfee | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...

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Can Boring People Be President?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Charisma, Barack Obama Charisma, Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Tom Cruise, Politics News

Whether Obama or McCain can become effective leaders will have less to do with their ability to excite crowds and more to do with their sense of moral purpose and their ability to actualize their visions.

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And I Quote (Random Quotations for a Mediocre Time)

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

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I decided to think of every quote worthy to share. Here: ************ I don't know where, but she sends me there. -Brian Wilson [crazy mad genius] ...

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California Teens And Jefferson Get Gay Marriage Right

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Jefferson, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage California, California Gay Marriage, Ban on Gay Marriages, Politics News

While anti-American religious organizations are spending millions trying to deny Equal Protection to our LGBT children under their distorted view of morality, this money is prevented from going to those really in need.

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Thomas Jefferson vs. George W. Bush

Chris Rodda | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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Trying to imagine what a conversation between Thomas Jefferson and our current president might be like, I took some words of these two great leaders, and assembled this hypothetical chat.

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Majority Of Americans Say Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed: Poll

CNN | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declara...

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What is Patriotism?

Byron Williams | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Patriotism, July 4th Patriotism, July 4th, 9/11, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

Patriotism has been reduced to wearing flag lapel pins and adorning bumper stickers that read: "I Support the Troops." Where is the courage that exemplifies the spirit of 1776?

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"Bring 'Em On!" - The Fifth Anniversary of Bush's Declaration of Indecency

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush Iraq, Thomas Jefferson, Fourth of July, George W. Bush, Declaration of Independence, Bush Military, Bush Iraq, Bush as Warmonger, Reid Bring Em On, Bring Em On, Politics News

Five years ago, when Bush said "bring 'em on!", he was inviting Iraqis to try to kill American troops. Few things a commander-in-chief could say would be as reprehensible as this comment.

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Audio Book Review: Shadow of Power

Tom Alderman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Harper Audio, Hamburger Helper, Shadow of Power, Thomas Jefferson, Harpercollins, Audio Book, Paul Mandriani, Legal Drama, Steve Martini, George Guidall, Huffpost Books, Mcguffin, Media News

This plot is like Hamburger Helper. There's a modest ingredient somewhere in there, to which is added a whole lot of filler in an attempt to bulk up a meager meal.

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America's 40 Years War at an End

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

RFK and Barack Obama may come to be seen as the bookends of the second American civil war, a war that has divided the nation and been a dominant force in our politics for four decades.

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''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander P. Throttlebottom, 12th Amendment, Chester Alan Arthur, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, George and Ira Gershwin, Barack Obama, Aaron Burr, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C. Wood, John Adams, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Great Society, Millard Fillmore, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney., Barack Obama Vice President, Vice President, Suburbia, Hillary Clinton Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers, Politics News

Barack Obama is pressured by Hillary Clinton to select her as VP, a mathematical question arises: why would he choose someone whom record numbers of Democrats have voted against?

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This is a Truly Historic Moment; Let's Savor It

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, American Ideals, Thomas Jefferson, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Politics News

As a historian, I am painfully aware of how overused the term "historic" is. But what we are witnessing right now, with Obama as the Democratic nominee, is the very definition of the word.

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History Lessons

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iran, John McCain, Rachel Maddow, George W. Bush, War With Iran, James Madison, Breaking Politics News, Thomas Jefferson, Iraq, Caesar, History Channel, 2008 Election, Unitary Executive, Solon, Politics News

The Bush administration's seeming incompetence, its torture memos and its rush to war parallels the way that Caesar and his contemporaries used war to further wealth and political ambition.

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