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Declaration Of Independence
Celebrating the ‘American Experiment’
Sheila Liaugminas | 03 July 2011
The nation celebrates its founding, a birthday, historical beginnings of liberty and self-determination and all that. But mainly it’s picnics and barbeques and fireworks.
How’s life in the US?
Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2011
What irony that the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the March for Life, and the State of the Union all fall in the same week.
Politics and conflict
Sheila Liaugminas | 03 July 2010
After hard debate, the Continental Congress voted unanimously for independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776. It took another day and a half to rework the text, and by the time it was adopted by the twelve colonies and signed by John Hancock, the Declaration of Independence was published on July 4, 1776. Thankfully, that Congress could work out their differences, for the common good. Today’s Congress can’t get anything done...
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