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well, you know. (Surely someone will go there.) Via The Hill: A subset of the Marine Corps band struck up one of Mitt Romney's walkout songs while President Obama was greeting visitors at the White House Independence Day celebration. A White House pool report said the band...

One of the best July 4ths I've had in a while. I feel a sea change, after the bummer of last week.  The media did its best to demoralize us, and we did a pretty good job on ourselves as well. I'm reinvigorated, and more motivated than...

Every year on July 4 there is a mini-parade in the neighborhood in my home town in Rhode Island, apart from the "big" parade through the center of town. Mostly it's for the neighborhood children, and it ends with ices and candy, after reciting the Pledge of...

Reader TowsonLawyer writes: Just in time for the Fourth of July - Lost Film from 1945 Here's the story from Richard Sullivan: 67 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender....

The hot news today was a story at National Journal about how the Romney campaign supposedly was Declaring Cease Fire on Health Care: In the aftermath of the Supreme Court health care ruling, the early conventional wisdom was that an unfavorable health care ruling at the...

I remember hearing about this case, and it struck me as strange at the time but not enough to write about it. Add the case to a long line of fake hate crimes -- which often occur on campuses or among students/faculty, where the desire to achieve...

A reader writes (emphasis mine): Devoted, and unregistered, reader, first time emailer. It seems the GOP has a "Read my lips" moment here with Obama promising no tax increase. The ad practically writes itself. I guess they'd never throw Bush I under the bus with the juxtaposition,...