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A Valentine's Day Tribute to the Power of Love in Politics
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWe are so often reminded of salacious sexual affairs in politics, but on Valentine's Day, perhaps we can spare a few moments to celebrate love? This should not be a foreign concept to us, and yet the contribution that love makes to keeping the ship of state afloat is too often ignored. Anyone who watched HBO's "John Adams" knows of the wonderful love affair between our second president and his wife, Abigail. If you have not seen it -- or read of this great American partnership between a man and a woman -- today is a good time to do so. Abigail was not only the devoted wife and mother of two ...
Opinion: 2 Tucson Shooting Myths Debunked
By Michael Medved - AOL NewsThe debate between left and right on contributing factors in the Tucson shootings has unfolded along utterly predictable and thoroughly unenlightening lines. Liberals accuse conservatives of overheated, gun-related rhetoric that created a hostile, edgy climate that may have encouraged the killer. The right responds that there's no evidence of Jared Lee Loughner's conservative orientation and that liberals make equally reprehensible and irresponsible statements. Neither side bothers to examine two highly dubious core assumptions: That the Barack Obama era constitutes a uniquely ...
Missing Man Crushed to Death in Trash Compactor
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (July 25) -- A maintenance man at a prominent western New York office building was crushed to death after falling into a trash compactor, but no one realized it for weeks as his family and authorities searched for him, police said Sunday. Surveillance video shows John Adams tumbled into a compactor while working at the One Niagara building, and the mechanism "prevented him from being able to escape and made it impossible for co-workers or others to realize what had occurred," Niagara Falls, N.Y., police said in a release. Adams, 67, was last seen picking up garbage on the night of ...
Cool Décor Beats Thrills, Hot Romance in My Summer Film Fare
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySummer is the time for films with thrills, as my colleague Helena Andrews suggests, though she's had trouble finding any. Especially in the crushing July heat, I prefer chills, the kind that come with an opening shot of a Milan streetscape covered in snow. Last weekend, "I Am Love" offered an Italian tale of a younger man-older woman relationship and that force stronger than rules of God and man (watch the trailer here). Yet I couldn't take my eyes off the succulent shrimp and the solidly chic brass sliding doors. Boy, have my tastes changed. Always a fan of the big, summer ...
US Archivist Preps for July 4 on 'Real' Independence Day
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 2) -- David Ferriero stands inside a chilly vault deep within the National Archives building here and looks on as an archivist reads from an original resolution passed 234 years ago today by the Continental Congress: Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. At the bottom of what became known as the Lee Declaration are 12 hash marks in the ...
Declaration of Independence Text, Retooled for the Web
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsOn June 10, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee made up of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration of independence from England. Jefferson was the one who actually wrote the declaration, (taking his sweet time) from June 11 to June 28, 1776, and it seems he was making corrections to the draft as he went. The Library of Congress announced today that new hyperspectral imaging of his Declaration rough draft shows he omitted the phrase "our fellow subjects" in favor of the word "citizens." Though the specific ...
Barack Obama's Beach Reading List
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs the Obamas enjoy their week-long vacation on Martha's Vineyard, we've learned from White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton what will be in the president's book bag when he heads to the beach. The official presidential reading list has a little fiction, a little non-fiction, some history and a close look at the global environmental crisis. Here's what President Obama will be reading, along with links to the Amazon page and the "Publisher's Weekly" blurb if you want to read along for fun. ...
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