Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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The Tortured Path to a Common Sense Education Policy
Posted on July 16, 2015
Thomas Jefferson was a big proponent of public education. He once said, Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation...
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Pursuit of Happiness
Posted on July 2, 2015
In America, we pursue happiness. As we declared in our independence from King George and his crony capitalists, the pursuit of happiness was a key part of the deal. Thomas...
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The Confederate Battle Flag Belongs In a Museum
Posted on June 23, 2015
It’s easy for me to say it. I am from Illinois. I was taught, growing up, that Abe Lincoln was America’s greatest President and that the Civil War was a...
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Et Tu, Lew?
Posted on June 19, 2015
The Department of the Treasury building is directly east of the White House. Standing in front of that stately building is a proud statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first and...
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Old Hickory and the GOP
Posted on June 9, 2015
Andrew Jackson has long been credited with starting the Democratic Party. He brought the Western frontier to Thomas Jefferson’s anti-federalist (and anti-Wall Street) sect and created the party of the...
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