For the past eight years, we’ve had a president who stumbled over the English language so often that his handlers made sure he always read prepared statements instead of making blunders by speaking off the cuff.
In fact, if there is any area where I absolutely saw clear improvement in the performance of George W. Bush [...]
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A robust free press is critical for a free democracy. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost,” said Thomas Jefferson.Jefferson also wrote…
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
“No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind [...]
11:45 AM (EST): Obama is on the platform, shaking hands, people taking their seats. Ready to go.
11:50 AM (EST): Diane Feinstein talks about the MLK dream reaching the White House.
11:52 AM (EST): Rev. Rick Warren prays the invocation: Not united by religion or blood, but by commitment to freedom. Treat all living things with the [...]
What’s behind all the bickering over Russian’s cutoff of natural gas through the Ukraine pipeline to eastern Europe? The Russian bear in the room that no one is talking about is the declared plans of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to recreate the former czarist or Soviet empire.
On January 1, the state-controlled Russian energy monopoly, Gazprom, [...]
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THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809), English writer and social activist, is best known for his popular essay, Common Sense, the pivotal historic call for American independence and democracy.Driven by his own longing for freedom and justice, Paine’s thinking was deeply influenced by English and French writers like Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and other philosophes in the movement today [...]
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Will Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute Bush and Cheney?
Now that Eric H. Holder has made history by becoming America’s first African-American Attorney General, will he now have the courage to investigate and prosecute the former president and vice president of the United States for a broad range of alleged criminal actions?
Possible charges against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney include violating their oaths [...]
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