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85The most frequently-missed tax deduction
Discover the number one tax deduction most Americans miss, find out why, and learn how you can use it in your life. Save money, and stop subsidizing things like human torture, domestic warrant-less wiretapping, and other unconscionable forms of treason... all at the same time.
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85Penelope Barker: First American Woman Political Activist
Tea was a symbol of prosperity for colonial Americans, but for colonists like Penelope Barker the British went to far with the Tea Act of 1773. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party, Barker organized a protest...
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82Strategies For Getting Rid of Debt
If you believe in duty you were taught to pay your bills. You are fighting a losing battle in many cases because of credit fees that should be illegal. Do you hear what I am saying congress of the United...
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89Massacre of Glencoe
Possibly the most infamous incident in a bloody and violent Scottish history took place in Glencoe early one snowy morning on the 13th of February 1692. The MacIan’s, a small sect of the mighty clan...
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87Domestic Violence and Fundamentalist Christianity
I was the victim of domestic violence in my home, growing up. I was a battered child. I was also the daughter of two extreme fundamentalist Christians. My mother was also the victim of domestic violence,...
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8347-Love Letters from Vietnam: Tim and Kate's Wedding, December 23, 1969
For an index to the Tim and Kate beginning episodes, click here. Before the Wedding "...and she all these things she kept in her heart, and pondered them." I struggle for the words to write about Tim's and...
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84Songs of Protest, Revolution & Change in America
From the 1950's through today, there have been times of major social upheaval in the United States, when the political climate was ripe for change, especially during the race riots and segregation of the...
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82100,000 For Equality: My Gay Rights Protest Story
All of this is a true story. * * * * * * We strolled across the familiar street, toward the Civic Center. My best friend Katrina was walking in front of me. She thought that I couldn’t see...
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80There Is A Vietnam Veteran Hiding In My Closet
How many American women served in Vietnam? The exact numbers weren't even kept by our government. How do they feel looking back on this unpopular war? My story is that of one woman who served our country and found herself locked in a self-imposed mental closet trying to keep that part of her life separate from the civilian world she had returned to. Will the same thing happen to women serving in our military today?
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80The Sixties Changed America and the World
The sixties was a decade that changed America and the world. Before the hippie movement and free love we had beatniks, but in the early sixties most people thought they were oddballs . By the end of the...
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