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Conservative Forced Out of Public Meeting

March 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Adam Sharp of SharpElbows.net found out freedom of speech isn’t so free when your point of view conflicts with those holding a public meeting in a public facility with at least one public official present. Sharp had the nerve to ask thought-provoking questions of people attending a public meeting attended by a representative from the [...]

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Letter Reveals Much About 1918 Flu Pandemic

May 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments

Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around the world died.  Toward that end, a visit to the National Archives produced a letter written [...]

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‘Move Along! Nothing to See Here, Folks’

January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

President-elect Barack Obama’s post-election statements and actions have left some wondering whether, in fact, there are any real differences between him and President George W. Bush. While liberals berate the 43rd president for being a puppet of wealthy GOP donors, deep-pocketed corporate titans and members of the warmongering “military-industrial complex,” conservatives criticize the soon-to-be-44th president [...]

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