“If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire, if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores, if women could be dragged to jail for

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It’s just not fair, darn it! Why is it that right-wing Republicans (which is almost all Republicans by now) can’t just come out, be honest and say what they really think? Isn’t it

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In the wake of the latest crazed mass shooting of innocent civilians in the U.S. – the massacre at a midnight movie showing in Colorado – followed up by a near-miss with the seizure of a huge