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Harvard warns: 4th of July parades turn kids into GOP supporters
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Keep your kids away from patriotic events – celebrating America’s heritage will turn them into Republicans. That’s the finding from Harvard University. Furthermore, Democratic candidates need not bother attending Independence Day, say the researchers, since the events only energize right-wingers. “Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend’s July 4th parades” writes Paul Bedard in the June…
Why didn’t Charlie Chaplin’s stirring speech become an icon of freedom?
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Back in the darkest days of World War II, when the Nazis were blitzkreiging unstoppably across Europe’s democracies, as millions of Jews, gypsies and uncooperative Christians were gassed at concentration camps, as America was gripped in fear that California and Oregon were next after Pearl Harbor, an eccentric movie was released. In it the famed…
Superman renounces his U.S. citizenship?
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Superman has turned in his U.S. passport, preferring to be a citizen of the world. “I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship,” the super-hero declares to the President’s National Security Advisor in the just released Action Comics 900 from DC Comics, which owns the…
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