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A Puritan's 'war against religion'
In January, while conservative Christians and GOP presidential candidates were charging that "elites" have launched "a war against religion," a federal court in Rhode Island ordered a public school to remove a prayer mounted on a wall because it imposed a...Tags: Republican Party, Bible, Politics, Religion and Belief, Civil Rights
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Book Review: 'Not Fit for Our Society' by Peter Schrag
Not Fit for Our Society
Immigration and Nativism in America
Peter Schrag
University of California Press: 232 pp., $26.95
One long ago morning in California, as debate raged over the anti-immigration initiative known as Proposition 187, I walked into a...Tags: Politics, Lyman Beecher, Judaism, Career and Workplace, Thomas Jefferson
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Books on wine from the University of California Press
Pages off the vine
Recent and upcoming wine books from the University of California Press:
"Bordeaux/Burgundy: A Vintage Rivalry, by Jean-Robert Pitte, translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
"New Classic Winemakers of California," conversations with Steve...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Education, University of California, Alcoholic Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'A Tolerable Anarchy' by Jedediah Purdy and 'The Myth of American Exceptionalism' by Godfrey Hodgson
A Tolerable Anarchy
Rebels, Reactionaries, and
the Making of America's Freedom
Jedediah Purdy
Alfred A. Knopf: 294 pp., $23.95
The Myth of American
Exceptionalism
Godfrey Hodgson
Yale University Press: 222 pp., $26
In his 2003 book "Being...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Education, Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Yale University
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The meaning of Obama
There's little doubt that Barack Obama's redemptive message of change grabbed Americans by the throat. After all, it's in times full of fear and despair that people are hungry for hope. Obama's triumph and victory speech were moving not only because...Tags: Culture, Politics, Behavioral Conditions, Philosophy, Barack Obama
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We're on the brink of apocalypse! Again!
The sky is falling! The end is near! Just in time for the Christmas season, Pat Buchanan has published yet another jeremiad warning that America is about to go belly up. You'd think that the American public would get tired of the unrelenting gloominess...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Bush
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America tortures (yawn)
IT WAS MUCH LIKE the usual Nigerian e-mail scam, but it had a dispiriting twist. "Greetings," went the e-mail, "I am Captain Smith Scott of the US Marine Force … in Baghdad-Iraq. On the 10th day of February 2007 … we captured three (3) of the Terrorists…...Tags: Politics, Fraud, Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Rights
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New London's staying power
Hartford Courant Staff WriterWhen he fishes, Joseph Ibrahim usually just drops a line in or around Groton, Conn., his shoreline hometown. But on this blustery spring day, he's come with his family -- daughter Arianna, 5, and her mother, Crissy Rousey -- to try his luck off New...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Garde Arts Center, Groton, Arts, Awards and Prizes
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Farewell Address
This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We've been together 8 years now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I've been saving for a long time. It's been...Tags: Obituaries, Science and Technology, Civil Rights, Russia, Human Rights
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How Connecticut Won The King's Seal Of Approval
Connecticut's claim to being the Constitution State is well founded in its history and in particular through key governing documents written by its earliest Colonial leaders. This month is the 350th anniversary of the granting of the Charter of 1662 by...Tags: Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Politics, Wethersfield, Regional Authority, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Settlers endured terror, pain
Did you ever wonder how we know about Pocahontas and her role in the history of Jamestown, Va.? Or how we learned that Squanto helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth? Perhaps you've wondered if the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay followed the law as severely...Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Politics, Pocahontas, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Squanto
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