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Happy birthday, America!
You only turn 250 once, America, so enjoy your day! Seriously, you look great for your age. You don’t look a day over 200. Despite the slings and arrows of your enemies, foreign and domestic, you’re aging gracefully. Remember, age is just a number, and you’re only as old as you feel. Life begins at […]
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The king of comedy
This has to be the most entertaining administration in American history, at least for anyone with a sense of humor. The reaction to the President’s recent answer to a question posed by a Japanese reporter is a case in point. The reporter asked Trump why he didn’t give America’s European and Asian allies a heads […]
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Happy Columbus Day!
This may shock some of you, but within living memory the discovery of America was regarded as a good thing. Now, instead of learning about an adventurous explorer who discovered a whole New World, school children are taught that they live on stolen land and are descended from genocidal colonizers. And we wonder why kids […]
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By MARK SARDELLA GLOUCESTER – “Bringing history to life” is about as cliched as it gets, but it happens to be an apt description for what Gloucester Stage’s current production, The Agitators, succeeds in doing. Mat Smart’s play takes us into the 19th century world of icons of equal rights Frederick Douglass and Susan B. […]
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