Tag: civil
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September 06, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
I wrote this story a few months ago for a local magazine, but with the recent death (in September) of Maudie Hopkins , it just seemed like a good time to bring it back out. I posted a link to the magazine . . . more
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October 10, 2008 08:07 PM EDT --
I am super excited tonight. The Travel Channel is hosting Most Haunted LIVE in Gettysburg from the battlefield. It is seven hours long so my husband is taping it. We were going to head . . . more
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October 05, 2008 09:54 PM EDT --
Only willing ear's hearing
strange minds quietly endearing
feeling growing true and strong
friends of plastic drift along
Pencil and paper writing and reading . . . more
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February 22, 2006 12:08 AM EST --
I a thriving world of opposing view points, it is nice to see that a civil rights struggle can be turned into a "get out the vote" campaign. What is even more interesting is the fact that . . . more
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January 01, 2008 12:53 PM EST --
Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in New Hampshire in the early moments of New Year's Day.
"We've been together 20 years; we've been waiting for this . . . more
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July 17, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
Despite the fact the American Civil War ended over 142 years ago, little things occur from time to time to remind us of its human cost. Those events are sometimes ironic but always touching . . . more
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October 15, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
"Civil Rights: Support of our basic Constitutional Civil liberties, namely: the government does not pick up American citizens and detain them without granting them due process, or impose religious . . . more
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November 24, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
"All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mothers' son, some sisters' brother, some daughters' father. Each one of them a whole person . . . more
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February 08, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
San Francisco--- The San Francisco chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed several lawsuits in Federal District Court against the Catholic Church as well as several prominent Evangelical . . . more
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April 25, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
Whom Can You Trust?
When I was a young person over 70 years ago, my family had a lot of trust in our American government. After all, it was founded on promoting the rights of the 'common man'. . . . more
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May 26, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
Taps
John Butterfield is remembered as the founder of the Butterfield Overland Mail, founded in 1858, that opened the west for passenger and mail service from Memphis and St., Louis to San Francisco . . . more
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November 07, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
Darling Husband and I are living historians. Civil War reenactors. Those nut jobs running around in wool and long dresses in the heat in the south.
If I had a nickel . . . more
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March 05, 2006 07:17 AM EST --
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably . . . more
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November 22, 2006 01:14 PM EST --
You won't be shocked to learn what the New York Times thinks of laws allowing citizens to carry their guns in public.
As a last little gift to America, Senator George Allen, who was narrowly defeated . . . more
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December 16, 2006 06:36 PM EST --
Right. I've had just about enough of the right's insinuations that there is something evil and anti-Christian about the ACLU.
The ACLU is perhaps the most profoundly patriotic organization I have . . . more
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March 05, 2007 07:46 AM EST --
I had threatened numerous times to renounce my citizenship just as soon as I could come up the money and find a country I could become a citizen of with the least amount of financial output or waiting . . . more
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April 04, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Last fall, I was invited to a Civil War Reenactment down in Franklin, La. A historical marker was placed at the site . . . more
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June 27, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
I live near Andersonville Georgia. Andersonville is full of echos, in the prison and in the cemetery you can hear echos. The echos of 45,000 prisoners who were at Andersonville from February 1864 . . . more
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August 13, 2007 12:33 PM EDT --
Before Rosa Parks, there was Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. On a hot July morning in 1944, Mrs. Kirkaldy had just suffered a miscarriage, and she needed to sit down for the Greyhound Bus ride from Gloucester, . . . more
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September 28, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
It was in the mist of the Civil War that West Virginia became a state. It was the year 1863, June 20th. The Union needed soldiers to serve in the Union Army. It was . . . more
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