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Happy Independence Day
by JOHN ADAMS •
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. A DECLARATION By the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, In GENERAL CONGRESS assembled. WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate…
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Happy Memorial Day 2009
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What did you do today — for Freedom?. 1943. United States Office of Civilain Defense. United We Win. 1943. United States War Manpower Commission. Ten years ago the Nazis burned these books…but free Americans can still read them. 1943. United States Office of War Information. All posters courtesty Northwestern University Library’s collection of government posters…
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Groundhog Day Holiday Post
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Happy Thanksgiving
by JOHN ADAMS •
Best wishes to all for a happy holiday. Across America, millions will watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The parade, and especially the large balloon animals that are part of the celebration, have become a familiar part of America’s modern Thanksgiving tradition. Here’s a short film describing the balloons that will be part of the…
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Veterans’ Day 2008: Thank you, Corporal Buckles
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Today honors millions, but one of that number deserves a particular moment of honor and appreciation. I have embedded a news clip from the Voice of America, recounting the extraordinary service of Corporal Frank Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran of the First World War. Buckles is now aged 107, and lives in West…
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Boo! Scariest Things in Whitewater 2008
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Here’s the FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater for 2008. Last year’s edition is available for comparison. The list runs in reverse order, from mildly frightening to horrifying. 10. Nostalgia. Why is it necessary to describe everything today as a reminder of what some small, humble person in town did forty three…
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President’s Proclamation for September 11, 2008
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Patriot Day, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America September 11, 2001, was etched into America’s memory when 19 terrorists attacked us with barbarity unequaled in our history. On Patriot Day, we cherish the memory of the thousands of innocent victims lost, extend our thoughts and prayers to their families,…
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Happy Labor Day
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Happy Independence Day
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Happy Easter
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Lincoln’s Birthday
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It’s Lincoln’s birthday today, and it offers us the moment to consider that singularly great man. The true advocate of freedom respects and admires Lincoln. (See, for example, Timothy Sandefur’s Liberty and Union, Now and Forever.) Lincoln visited Wisconsin, and delivered a speech before our agricultural society in September of 1859. The speech addressed particular…