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Misquoting Patrick Henry: The Internet and Bogus Sayings of the Founders

Thomas S. Kidd | Posted 04.02.2012

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Thomas S. Kidd

Misquotations of famous people have always been with us, but social media websites have created a vast twilight zone of historical misinformation.

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The American Spring

Ronald Ricker | Posted 01.28.2012

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Ronald Ricker

Somewhere, sometime, accelerating rapidly recently, we Americans have lost it--the American Dream. We were the land of opportunity, the land of equa...

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Spirit Of Independence: Best Books On Founding Fathers (And A Few Mothers Too)

Posted 09.03.2011

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Yes, we know the 4th of July is more about fireworks and picnics than the Revolutionary War, but we are, after all, celebrating American Independence....

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Taxation WITH Representation Isn't Too Great These Days

Tom Gerdy | Posted 06.12.2011

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Tom Gerdy

Twenty-five years before the Revolutionary War began, Reverend Jonathan Mayhew was credited for having coined the rallying cry, "No taxation without r...

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Chatting and Chuckling With Wavy Gravy

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Wavy Gravy, bowed but unbroken, walks into a deli-café in New York's SoHo, holding a fish on a leash. He's making the rounds in Manhattan, doing interviews to publicize a documentary -- about his life.

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Patrick Henry Was First to Fight Big Government

Harlow Giles Unger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harlow Giles Unger

As this government stands, I despise and abhor it...I speak as one poor individual--but when I speak, I speak the language of thousands. The words ...

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Patrick Henry Never Went to Tea Parties

Harlow Giles Unger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harlow Giles Unger

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may ...

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Give Me Liberty or Keep Me Safe!

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Astore

Today, our new cry seems to be "Give me liberty or keep me safe": safe, that is, from the big, bad, terrorist wolf.

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