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We can still look to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Finch as heroes—flawed mortals who did noble work and made America (or Maycomb, Alabama) better—without endorsing their personal preju...

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Bearing Drift calls on the Democrats to at least be consistent The post Virginia Democrats: End the hypocrisy. Rename the “Jefferson-Jackson” Dinner first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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It was on this day in 1786 that the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was enacted.  It was this Virginia statute, authored by Thomas Jefferson, that became the basis of our First Amendment ...

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It was more pilloried than praised at its inception. It was more prevalent in the North than in the South before the Civil War. It has survived to this very day. The post Everything you think y...

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On Mar 4, 1825, the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors met for the final time in a special session before opening its doors to the student body. Here they established the curriculum for t...

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American flags against a cloudy Shenandoah Valley sky. It’s the anniversary of America’s independence and in Staunton, as in other... The post July 4, 2012 … American Independence, Virgin...

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American history, at least before the Russian Revolution is no friend to the LGBT movement, and hijacking the founders to persuade a modern audience otherwise is, at best, deliberately ignorant. ...

https://bearingdrift.com/2012/06/04/daily-progress-founding-fathers-un-american/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daily-progress-founding-fathers-un-american

He’s been called the Paul Revere of the South but many have never heard of this Revolutionary War hero. Yet... The post Revolutionary War hero … June 3, 1781: Jack Jouett’s ride to warn G...

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On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee's instructions to delegates in the Second Continental Congress authorizing them to vote for American Independence were adopted, thereby effectively declarin...

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Today, President Obama found the time to call feminist activist Sandra Fluke to express admiration for her demand that the taxpayers pay $3,000 per year to subsidize her sexual promiscuity, but O...

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