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What the president said: a selection of quotes from U.S. inaugural speeches

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The following is a selection of quotes from US presidents giving their inaugural speeches, from George Washington to Barack Obama. - George Washington (1789) “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every…

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Gingrich: Founding fathers would have ‘violent’ reaction to pot growers

Newt Gingrich in Concord, New Hampshire

Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the founders of the United States would have dealt violently with marijuana growers, despite the fact that they grew the plant for commercial purposes themselves. He said at an town hall event in New Hampshire that decriminalizing drugs like marijuana would increase the rate of…

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Assimilate to which America?

Damn you, Hendrik Hertzberg. I was going to link George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in reply to the continued screeching about how we shouldn’t brook any mosques within (fill in your number of steps, blocks, miles, or planets) near the World Trade Center, but…

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