In the history of mankind, many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state. TR

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Obama: America needs to reckon with its history on voting rights

January 18, 2017, 4:34 pm 22 Comments

No president has done more to sow racial division than this one. America, unlike any European country, elected a minority to be its leader. And then he used the post not to bring us together, but to lecture us and divide us. From the Washington Examiner: President Obama called for the country to reckon with the history behind the restriction of voting rights, drawing a

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Obama: No Contradiction in Handling of Manning, Russia

January 18, 2017, 4:29 pm 10 Comments

Remember, Manning was charged with crimes that could have given him the death penalty. The Washington Examiner reports. President Obama on Wednesday said his decision to commute the sentence of WikiLeaks leaker Chelsea Manning after sanctioning Russia for allegedly leaking information to the same government transparency group did not constitute hypocrisy, as some have charged. “I don’t see a contradiction,” the outgoing president said at

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