Churchill Museum offers military free admission

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

The Callaway County college where Winston Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 is offering active duty military free summer admission to the museum dedicated to the former British prime minister. The National Churc ...
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Pressure on the picket line

Source: Chicago Tribune

Almost every day for nearly three weeks, Jon Butler rallied with fellow union strikers on the picket line. Butler was among roughly 800 union members who walked out of the Caterpillar Inc. plant in Joliet on May 1, ...
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Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream

Source: Firedoglake

It’s time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing the nation. We contend that it is possible not only to talk about this once for ...
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15 years later, CIA reveals name of fallen Marylander

Source: Baltimore Sun

The report from the State Department was brief: Thomas M. Jennings Jr., a federal worker from Burtonsville on a temporary assignment with NATO peacekeepers, had died in a car crash in Southern Bosnia. Fifteen years later, ...
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This week in the War on Voting: Florida, again

Source: Daily Kos

That's Rep. Allen West (Torturer-FL) explaining that early voting is an "entitlement." The state passed legislation this year that halved the early voting period in the state from two weeks to eight days, and cut out the Sunday before the elect ...
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A little bit Cherokee? Elizabeth Warren not alone in ancestry claim

Source: Boston Herald

You guessed it (no, you probably did not). This is a partial roster of the people included in Wikipedia’s "List of People of Self-Identified Cherokee Ancestry," which, inexplicably, does not include Elizabeth Warren. ...
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Patrick not looking back at what she left behind

Source: Enquirer Herald

"I was ready to leave IndyCar. I wanted to be here," she said from Charlotte Motor Speedway, where she'll race in Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600. "When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really ...
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Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility

Source: KREM.com

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilan ...
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Dad's back home and the kids are ready to play

Source: Stars and Stripes

DIXON – When Army Capt. David Hage returned home in 2005 from the first of his two deployments, his 2-year-old son Noah did not know who he was. “He wouldn’t sit on my lap for 3 months,” Hage recalls. “All he knew ...
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