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Someone's Mojo Is Working: A Conversation With Tom Petty

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.14.2010 | Entertainment

Read More: Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elmore James, Little Walter, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, BB King, Gamble & Huff, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Jeff Beck Group, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Thomas Jefferson, Blues, Robert Johnson, Tom Petty, Derek and the Dominos, Chuck Berry, Cream, Bo Diddley, Leon Huff, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Robert Cray, Randy Newman, Scott Thurston, Mike Campbell, Entertainment News

"I've been trying to get there for over a decade, really. [Blues] is the music we've always played. I guess over the last decade or so, it just became where I went when I wanted to listen to music."

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Returning to Virtuous Governance

John Hart | Posted 06.10.2010 | Politics

Read More: Government, Corruption, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

We should never doubt that the destiny of our community, including overcoming the scars of corruption, will be written by those who care about its future and not those who abuse the privilege of holding the public's trust.

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10 Of The Most Expensive Homes On Zillow (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 06.09.2010 | Business

Read More: Virginia, Nick Lachey, Zillow, California, Celebrity Real Estate, Jessica Simpson, Slidepollajax, Thomas Jefferson, Real Estate, New York, Most Expensive Homes on Zillow, Business News

Courtesy of the folks at Zillow, we've compiled the most-searched-for luxury homes on the web in the month of May. If Zillow's results are any indicat...

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A Journey into America, Past and Present

Akbar Ahmed | Posted 06.03.2010 | Books

Read More: Religion, Islam, Politics, Homegrown Terrorists, Pluralism, Founding Fathers, Akbar Ahmed, US Foreign Policy, Thomas Jefferson, World, Journey Into America, Books, Terrorism, America, Roger Williams, Books News

Muslims are for Americans what the Russians were for Churchill: "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." While the post-9/11 period brought...

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America's Poorest Presidents (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.28.2010 | Business

Read More: Bankruptcy, William McKinley, Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, Slidepollajax, James Madison, US President, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Business News

US Presidents are, by nature, risk takers. You have to be to "lead the nation into war, annex millions of square miles of territory, or drop the atom...

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In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals

David Shields | Posted 05.28.2010 | Books

Read More: Copyright, David Shields Reality Hunger, Writing, David Shields, Art, Danger Mouse, Citation, Books, Quotations, Reality Hunger, Plagiarism, Picasso, Thomas Jefferson, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Bestsellers, Books News

The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Citation domesticates the work, flattens it, denudes, it, robs it of its excitement, risk, danger.

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When Faith Trumps Reason: the Curse of Scientific Illiteracy

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.26.2010 | Politics

Steeped in the wasteland of scientific illiteracy we in Texas descend ever further toward a theocracy, in danger of becoming the Iran of the West, or a bad copy of the former Soviet Union.

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How Texas' School Board Tried to Pretend Slavery Never Happened and Why Your Kid's School May Be Next

Bryan Monroe | Posted 05.24.2010 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Texas, Education, Conservatives, Slavery, Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, LeBron James, Atlantic Triangular Trade, Texas Textbooks, Slave Trade, Texas Slave Trade, Texas Board of Education, Texas Board of Education Slavery, Politics News

By incorporating their own conservative values into guidelines for history classes, the Texas Board of Education may force the entire nation to adopt their right-wing re-write of history.

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In Search of Muslim Identity: Akbar Ahmed's Journey into America

John Milewski | Posted 05.24.2010 | Books

Read More: Islam, Pluralism, David Kilcullen, Alexis De Tocqueville, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Muslim Americans, Akbar Ahmed, American Identity, Thomas Jefferson, Melting Pot, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, Iraq, Diversity, Books News

Author Akbar Ahmed has dedicated himself to building bridges of understanding between worlds. I asked him about the impact of Faisal Shahzad's actions on the larger goal of increasing trust among Muslims and non-Muslims in the U.S. and beyond.

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It's Not the Tea Party's Country to "Take Back"

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2010 | Politics

Read More: Rand Paul Civil Rights Act, Tea Party Movement, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Civil Rights Act, Rand Paul, Nazis, Rachel Maddow, Rand Paul Rachel Maddow, Jim Bunning, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Primary, Tea Party, Civil Rights, Politics News

November is the election that counts, and we need to make it a clear statement to the bullies on the Right that they are not in charge.

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11 Presidents' Favorite Books (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.17.2010 | Books

Read More: Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Books, Nixon, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Slidepollajax, Reading, Jfk, Barack Obama, Presidents, Books News

Presidents have always been great readers and history has always been interested in their favorite books. But what do those books say about our leader...

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Jon Stewart Author Interview: 'Revolutionaries' Author Jack Rakove On Our Founding Fathers (VIDEO)

Posted 05.11.2010 | Books

Read More: Video, Revolutionaries, George Washington, Jon Stewart, Books, Revolutionary War, Jack Rakove, James Madison, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Author Interviews, The Daily Show, Books News

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jack Rakove was on 'The Daily Show' last night to talk about his new book, "Revolutionaries," and the remarkable story o...

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Private Faith in Public Life

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Texas Freedom Network, Teddy Roosevelt, Rush Limbaugh, Christian Nation, Economic Uncertainty, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, Federalist Papers, Recession, Sarah Palin, Declaration of Independence, Texas School Board of Education, Sean Hannity, John Adams, Glenn Beck, Articles of Confederation, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

We really need to stop this ridiculous argument about being a Christian nation. If there should be any doubt, let us listen to the founding fathers themselves.

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The Only Surprises Are the History We Do Not Know

Gary Hart | Posted 04.26.2010 | Politics

Read More: Jefferson, Public Policy, Banks, Lobbyists, Federalism, Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Anti-Federalism, Politics News

America is currently locked in one of its recurring half-century battles over the size of banks. Once more, we see Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton going head-to-head; once more, Hamilton is winning.

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Reality Check: Understanding the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Ali Safavi | Posted 04.27.2010 | World

There has not been a single credible and independently verifiable finding that the MEK ever targeted any civilians or non-combatants. This is why the Iranian mullahs have fabricated cases against it.

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Richard Nixon, George Washington, Al Gore: Top 7 Presidential 'Historical Tweets' (PHOTOS, POLL)

Alec McNayr | Posted 04.20.2010 | Books

Read More: Library of Congress, Library of Congress Twitter, Presidential Tweets, Slidepollajax, Presidents, Twitter, Tweets, Books, Historical Tweets, Blog to Book, Thomas Jefferson, Marilyn Monroe, Al Gore, Jfk, Books News

In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing the best tweets in history, but today, we offer the top 7 tweets from U.S. presidents.

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Religious Fundamentalism Should Not Be Affecting Americans' Rights

Fred Silberberg | Posted 04.19.2010 | Religion

Read More: Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Gay Rights, Moral Majority, Religious Fundamentalism, Abortion Rights, Thomas Jefferson, Stem Cell Research, Conservative-Christian-Groups, Roe vs Wade, Focus on the Family, Separation of Church and State, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Religion News

What we don't realize is that we, as a nation, have allowed our own country to be ruled in part by our own domestic religious fundamentalism.

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Thomas Jefferson Signed Census Sells For $122,500

AP | Posted 04.15.2010 | New York

Read More: First Census, Census, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Census Sells for $122500, Thomas Jefferson Census, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — A first edition of the first U.S. census signed by Thomas Jefferson in 1791 has been sold at auction in New York City for over $122,0...

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The Politicization of a Founding Father

William Hyland Jr. | Posted 06.13.2010 | Politics

Read More: Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, Politics, Us-News, Politics News

Although the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings rumor survives, no reasonable, sensible person hearing all the evidence, not just rank speculation, has ever declared his or her belief in it.

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Learning on the Job

Gary Hart | Posted 04.12.2010 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson, Justice Stevens, John Paul Stevens, Justice John Paul Stevens, Growth, Bipartisanship, Confirmation Hearing, Stevens, Politics News

Retiring Justice Stevens, whose views on both abortion and capital punishment shifted during his lengthy service, exemplifies an increasingly rare type of public servant: one who is willing to change.

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The Founders and the Creation of the American State

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.07.2010 | Politics

Read More: Tea Parties, Philadelphia, Alexander Hamilton, Bill of Rights, Constitution, New Deal, James Madison, Founding Fathers, Founders, Great Society, Thomas Jefferson, Patriot, Articles of Confederation, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Politics News

The Tea Partiers are not entirely wrong to warn about the potential of the state to repress freedom, but in overlooking the role of the state in ensuring these freedoms, they foolishly misread history.

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Thomas Jefferson: A True American Radical

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.06.2010 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, John Adams, Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

Jefferson was a Renaissance man--a philosopher, architect, statesman and founder of the U. of Virginia--whose passion for individual freedom was rivaled only by his love of country.

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Texas Solution for Smart-Aleck Kids: Dumb 'Em Down

Doug Molitor | Posted 05.22.2010 | Politics

Read More: Schoolbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Rick Perry, Texas, Politics News

Oh, wait, that wasn't Afghanistan. That was America. Okay, easy fix. Wherever I have "Taliban," just insert "right-wing Christians."

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Restore the Republic

Gary Hart | Posted 03.22.2010 | Politics

Read More: Government, Thomas Jefferson, The Republic, Gary Hart, 21st Century, Politics News

Let's shift administration of domestic programs as much as possible to local communities, what Thomas Jefferson called elementary republics.

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Deep in the Heart of Textbooks

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.19.2010 | Politics

Read More: Don-Mcleroy, Texas, Fundamentalism, Joseph McCarthy, George Orwell, Revisionist History, Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Texas State Board of Education, Politics News

Turning public school social studies classes into unabashed propaganda sessions goes beyond mere political ugliness. It is craven. It is foolish. It is madness.

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