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Team Named After Thomas Jefferson a Perfect Fit for Storied League

There’s a TV commercial currently running for MLB featuring Baltimore Orioles slugger Adam Jones. In it, the narrator says of Jones “When he’s not playing baseball, he’s watching baseball. When he’s not watching baseball, he’s reading about baseball. When he’s not reading about baseball, he’s listening to baseball. And when he’s not listening to baseball, he’s playing baseball.” Let’s just say: I hear ya, Adam.

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Rebuilding American Civic Traditions on the 4th of July

Americans celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks, barbecues, picnics and all other kinds of enjoyable festivities. It’s wonderful that we live in a free country and are able to enjoy the fruits of our prosperity and freedom. However, merely wearing red,white, and blue, shirts with bald eagles on them, and other patriotic symbols is only a superficial way to celebrate America’s hard-fought for independence.

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Daily Beast: Robert E. Lee Would Not Want Confederate Battle Flags At WLU

On January 15–just four days before the commemoration of General Robert E. Lee’s birthday–The Daily Beast ran a story claiming Lee would have approved of the removal of Confederate battle flags from Washington and Lee University and that Lee wrote in a “self-serving” manner, post-Civil War, to cover his tracks on secession.