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...Dakota and Alabama have already taken the initiative to rename Columbus Day within their own borders, but, on the national level, Columbus Day is still a federal holiday, which should no longer be the case. Replacing Columbus Day with a holiday celebrating Native American culture will do much to bring this country to the realization that its history consists of many episodes less wholesome than the common image—real or imagined—of the first Thanksgiving, where Plymouth colonists shared corn with the local native tribes...
...Johnson County War erupted between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming, and the year Homer Plessy sat in the wrong seat on a train and prompted a landmark Supreme Court case. These are things that debaters might know because they can never tell when their opponents will bring up the way mass media affected rebellions in the West, or why the Supreme Court isn’t a reliable source for expanding nuclear disarmament...
...then the recession came. Did we make mistakes? Of course we did. The property boom got too big, the banks borrowed too much. Our regulation system, and we all have to take responsibility for this, wasn't picking up everything it should. When I tried to bring in a property tax, the media killed me. Then the media killed me saying I didn't bring in the solutions. I am sorry so many people have lost jobs...
...seems like Barack Obama just can’t please the American public anymore. A little over a week ago, criticism rained down on the president when his personal bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago fell flat. Then, last Friday, Obama generated almost as much anger for becoming the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Peace. It’s enough to make a person stop and wonder—is it better to be a winner or a loser, or are both equally objectionable...
...that the effectiveness of gagging orders has been eroding for years, pointing to the banning of a book called Spycatcher, written by former British secret agent Peter Wright, in Britain in 1985. "The book went on sale in America and in Australia, and everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people it's being communicated...