Tag: Money

Long May She Wave

On this day in 1777, Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States. The flag has been revered. It has been burned. It has flown over triumphant times such as on Iwo Jima and around Olympic tracks. It flew over the rubble of the World Trade Center. It has flown …

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It’s all about the stuff

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was born on this day in 1859 (died April 16, 1859). Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (from which the above quote is taken) was written after his travels …

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