On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. My special tribute to America’s independence day will include lots of kooky trivia of no real importance.
2.5 million– In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the [...]
(Note: In the original version of this post, I accidentally referred to Cheney as “President” throughout. What would Freud have to say about that?)
When I first read the news that 23% of those questioned in the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey said they believed Cheney to be the worst Vice President in American history I [...]
I sincerely believe…that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson, 1816 letter to John Taylor