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Glorious triumph

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

These are the times that try men’s souls.
So wrote Thomas Paine in the bitter cold of December 1776. Paine had joined General George Washington’s ragged Continental Army in Pennsylvania following a string of defeats and retreats.
Paine knew well the desperate situation. Supplies were low. Morale was lower. Most soldiers who did not desert would […]

The political line drawn in the sand: Oct. 1 and expiration of the offshore drilling ban

Thursday, August 14th, 2008