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You are misinterpret­ing...
By aeschylus
e pluribus unum . The phrase implicitly emphasizes "unum", whereas a lot of liberals get hung up on the "pluribus". The Pledge of Allegiance may be little ... Read More
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another push-into-da­ycare factor: tax code
By jvanke
Bruce Fuller may be right about parents' desperation. (I haven't read him.) But let's not forget that the U.S. tax code allows parents to pay up to $6,000 ... Read More
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Target employers, not hapless migrants
By misterben
I am surprised that Slate ran this article. The immigration debate in this country is badly flawed, and this article does nothing but contribute to the ... Read More
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You forgive Edison's 9,999 failures, but not communism's few
By theNairobiTrio
We were all raised to admire Thomas Alva Edison for his comment that although it took him 10,000 tries to get the electric lighjt bulb right with tungsten, ... Read More
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Messages passing through
By Canadian libertarian
It is not reasonable that American authorities should be able to intercept foreign-orig­in communicatio­ns without warrant. It is entirely reasonable that ... Read More
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American patriotism
By jkodak
Although it may be comforting to Democrats to think that their perceived lack of patiotism is the result of a vision that is "too high-minded or too subtle" ... Read More
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Nothing More UnAmerican Than The Pledge of Allegiance
By Mactosh
What kind of paranoid citizens demand from their countrymen some kind of pledge insuring sacred Americaness? No nation, no matter what it stands for, can ... Read More
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It's the socialism, stupid!
By duck
Democrats lost the mantle of patriotism by putting social engineering of substantive equality before protecting our rights. Most Americans today were born ... Read More
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