On: January 27, 2007

A newscaster on Fox News says "Stay tuned for a story on what the government is doing to protect you".  A reasonable story? Absolutely.  One of...

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On: January 27, 2007

"A Los Angeles-based market research company hired by Paine reported that in 2002, 41 percent of those asked said they planned to observe September 11th in...

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On: January 27, 2007

"The freedoms and privileges afforded every citizen in our democracy are unwittingly being threatened by the very citizens they were designed to benefit....

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On: January 27, 2007

We are supposed to live in a democracy - a country "of, by and for the people". And the Declaration of Independence says that all men are endowed with...

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On: January 27, 2007

The "Silent Majority"? There is no "Silent Majority". It's an oxymoron. In a democracy, when the majority is silent, they are the minority. (May 2003)

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On: January 27, 2007

March 5, 2002 was election day. On that day, the bodies of a number of Americans, who had died in a “fire fight” in Afghanistan trying to recover the...

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On: January 24, 2007

The purpose of the American Blog is to highlight and discuss matters related to being effective citizens in a democracy.

The American Blog...

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