[solzhenitsyn]

"Republicans and Loyalists fought violent battles under assumed classical names. Constitutionalis, Massachusettensis, Senex, Novanglus, Pacificus, Caesariensis, Amicus Publico, Cunctator, Virginius, Mucius Scaevola, Cato, Scipio, Leonidas, Brutus, and many more argued hotly and often powerfully the whole question of allegiance, on abstract grounds."

Does that sound familiar? You are carrying on a great American tradition, Jim!

[4CJ]

"Like Franklin’s Dogood Paper, the first essays printed in colonial newspapers were written with a conscious moral purpose."

So what has today's media abandoned? Consciousness or morality? The papers of the time, even with their satire and whimsical stories, were infinitely superior to the swill that's published today. They entertained, they informed, and they promoted thought and discourse. They were even cherished, and passed around hand-to-hand. Today's newspapers are written for a dumbed-down audience, and whose intent is to brainwash it's constituency.

[It'salmosttolate]

"... the Hell-Fire Club.." I believe today it would be called freerepublic.com.

[Tailgunner Joe]

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