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Guns don't protect freedom; the Constitution does
"Happiness is a warm gun," wrote John Lennon, 12 years before being gunned down in front of his New York apartment building by a madman armed with a .38 special. Lennon, of course, was being ironic, but there's no trace of irony being exhibited by another...Tags: The Happiest News!, National Government, Government, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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ESSAY: One glimpse of your nation, Mr. President
Dear Mr. President: There is a man in Jacksonville, Fla., named Bryan Stone. He is 60 years old and works at a company that helps people find better jobs. He describes himself as "more to the right than the left," though not all that far out from the...Tags: Philosophy, China, National Government, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections
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Review: 'The Abolitionists' shows the people who led to Lincoln
Even as he helped orchestrate the American Revolution and the creation of modern democracy, John Adams worried that the framers of history, more interested in portraiture than landscape, would choose one or two individuals — Benjamin Franklin,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Documentary (genre), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Daniel Day-Lewis
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Despite bullets in Miami, FDR conquered Central Florida in open motorcade
Preparations for the 57th Inauguration on Jan. 21 inspire recollections of storied presidential visits to Central Florida. When Grover Cleveland arrived in 1888, for example, his reception was a bit chilly: The Orlando Ice Works presented him with a...
Tags: Polio, Grover Cleveland, Rollins College, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio
The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...
Tags: Health Organizations, Disease Prevention, John F. Kennedy, Pakistan, Career and Workplace
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Open house to celebrate Claymont restoration
richardb@herald-mail.comAn open house celebration commemorating completion of a $300,000 restoration project plus the movement of 264 acres into permanent farmland protection status will be held Sunday at the Claymont Society’s main mansion from noon to 2 p.m. The 34-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Sociology, Culture
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Art Callaham: Little-known facts about our presidents
I have been reading Cormac O’Brien’s book, “Secret lives of the U.S. Presidents.” What a hoot! As O’Brien states in the subtitle, the book is truly, “What your teachers never told you about the men of the White House.&...Tags: James Monroe, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, John F. Kennedy, Nobel Prize Awards
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Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero
When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Daniel Akaka, Iraq, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Armed Forces
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Hillary Clinton expected to make full recovery from blood clot
WASHINGTON – The blood clot that led to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hospitalization on Sunday is lodged in a vein behind her right ear, her doctors disclosed in a statement late Monday. The doctors said the clot, called a...
Tags: Flu, Stroke, Thrombosis , Concussion, John Kerry
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Group aims to restore 1915 schoolhouse, teach local history inside
When Martha Forth first saw the one-room rural schoolhouse where she would land her first teaching job in 1938, her heart sank. "I thought, I can't do this," recalled Forth, then 23 and a university graduate with a teaching credential from USC. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Lobbying, Politics
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Lower taxes, less spending is best formula for recovery
President Barack Obama, largely due to his upbringing and background, sincerely thinks he is leading this country in the right direction. However, hard facts powerfully indicate that he is leading us in the wrong direction. The Obama administration...Tags: U.S. Congress, National Government, Democratic Party, Government, Internal Revenue Service
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Charles Town author finishes latest Civil War work
richardb@herald-mail.comThe American Civil War has been very good for a Charles Town author who, in the last six years, has been researching the area’s history for material for historical novels based on real people and real situations connected with that conflict. Bob...Tags: Literature, Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, The Herald-Mail, Slavery
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