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American unity Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England. Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous. Franklin sketched, carved, and published the first known political cartoon in an American newspaper. It was the image of a snake cut into eight sections. The sections represented the individual colonies and the curves of...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Heated? For sure. Intense? Of course. Yet the Iowa caucus campaign nearly now coming to a close has been a surprisingly civilized affair, four years after caucus-goers appeared to punish two presidential hopefuls for playing too rough. This time, the exception illustrates the rule. "If I believed half of that stuff, I wouldn't vote for myself," Republican Mike Huckabee told reporters on Saturday. The object of his unhappiness? An ad aired by the campaign of rival Mitt Romney that said he had "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations, including 12 convicted murderers ... more clemencies than the...

H.W. Crocker’s Don’t Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting is three books in one. It entertains like a novel, teaches like a comprehensive text and captures the secret essence of its subject like a great biography. Wars—both conventional and unconventional—are the fundament of every nation’s history. In this book, a tour de armed force, we see 400 years of American history from what Crocker calls the “gentle art of scalping” to post-Vietnam America resurgent in the fight against terrorists.... In the beginning, there was one tomahawk. Crocker tells us that...

Bush warns Israel to tread carefully By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem 04 December 2003 The United States has privately told Israel of three "red lines" it must not cross in its dealing with the Palestinians and the wider Middle East, according to the Israeli press. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, the three red lines are: not to harm the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; not to "shock the region"; and not to create "facts on the ground" that could jeopardise the Palestinian state promised in the US-backed "road-map" for peace. If the reports are true, much less is being asked...