Inauguration Day
Earlier today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Here is a transcript of his inaugural address.
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Independence Day
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 and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Constitution Day
218 years ago today, men from 12 of the 13 states put their signatures on a document outlining a new course for their ailing loose confederation of former British colonies. The document they signed in Philadelphia over two centuries ago has survived to this day, albeit with its fair share of revisions, deletions and amendments. We the People [...]
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