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Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future. Find the past "On This Day in History" here. April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap...

By Chris Schluep We have entered the season when big books are being released every week. There's a winning crop of history books this month, five examples of which are below. You can see the full list of our Best History Books of the Month here. ...

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion America is now teetering as far forward over the edge as a country can before it falls over the cliff and is no longer recognizable.  We either wake-up immediately and get-involved or there...

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.” FRANCIS BACON, Of Suspicion, 1625 America, as the historian Richard Hofstadter famously noted in 1964, is a place peculiarly given to “the paranoid style” of politics — the idea that...

Open Letter to Congress: INTERIM ASSESSMENT from the Citizens’ Mandate May 18, 2015 With last November’s election of a new Republican Congress, voters demonstrated they wanted Obama’s fundamental transformation to stop. In January, a group of more...