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  • Don't Get Caught by the Latest Taboo
    2025/07/14

    If you've been thinking things couldn’t get any worse in the good 'ol USA, think again. Trump’s watchful government has guarded our virtue by banning a slew of words.

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  • The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Bill
    2025/07/07

    After a visit to his Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in Florida -- which by the way will cost $450 million dollars a year and has already flooded -- Trump is celebrating the July third passage of his so-called greatest bill, saying “There’s something for everyone." He’s got that right. Here’s a list.

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  • Independence Day is coming up. Time to visit the flawed history
    2025/06/30

    When the Declaration of Independence was written, the "fathers of our country" looked in the mirror, and guess what they saw?

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  • It's Hurricane Season: Here's the Sexist History
    2025/06/23

    For decades U.S. storms and hurricanes had exclusively female names. Male forecasters had snickers and snide remarks about the female storms' "temperament" and "instability." No more.

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  • Juneteenth - A holiday 156 Years in the Making
    2025/06/16

    Juneteenth, marking June 19th, 1865 is a federal holiday celebrated each year to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Most people think that was the day President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves. Wrong.

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  • Trump's high dollar birthday parade: What could we have instead?
    2025/06/09

    Trump's throwing a "big beautiful" birthday parade, masquerading as a tribute to the troops. At a cost of $40 million and counting, what could Americans have instead?

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  • June Brides: The Tradition is Much Older Than You Think
    2025/06/02

    Most people think June weddings are the follow-on to High School or college graduations, but the tradition actually goes back to antiquity.

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  • Memorial Day: Not What You Were Taught in School
    2025/05/26

    Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldiers from the Civil war are buried. Nope. The earliest ceremony was years earlier, and the participants not the people you learned about in school.

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