In keeping with the America 250 theme, here’s some history you may not be familiar with.

This is a different take on the Boston Tea Party. 252 years ago today, the British Empire closed the busiest port in North America to teach one colony a lesson, and accidentally turned thirteen colonies into one country. On December 16, 1773, a few dozen Bostonians had thrown 342 chests of East India Company tea …

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Your SOTU Founders Comment for the day

Tonight's State of the Union speech was held inside a Capitol surrounded by a fence.  Why the fence, you ask?  That fence was erected because the shrinking violets in the US Congress and Senate live in fear of their own constituents.  Here's what one of America's Founding Fathers had to say about that. How many …

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