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On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote an extraordinary letter to her husband, John, the Massachusetts representative to the Continental Congress, and future president. Of the thousands of letters she and her husband exchanged over the years, this one was one of the most prescient, and poignant. I long to hear that you have declared an independency," she wrote. And almost off-handedly she threw out lines that could easily have been written a century or two later. "And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Key aviation safety improvements stemming from last year's crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center could win approval in Congress and be sent to President Obama within days, thanks to a legislative breakthrough Wednesday. Leading members of the House and the Senate on transportation issues announced that they would attach the safety provisions to a temporary extension of funding for the Federal Aviation Administration that is expected to win House passage today.
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Smart people sometimes get it wrong. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare U.S. independence from Great Britain. Future President John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail, predicted that day would go down as the most momentous in American history. He envisioned that July 2 would forever be marked with parades, celebrations, and fireworks. Two days later, on July 4, the Congress approved the actual words of the Declaration of Independence. Adams got the celebration part right - he just missed the date. The recent furor over the New York Times' revelation that Medicare will begin paying doctors for having end-of-life discussions with their patients may be another example of smart people getting it half-right. The part that is right, I believe, is the criticism that the...
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Last week, gay and lesbian couples in California began receiving marriage licenses in the wake of the state supreme court's May 15 ruling that California's law limiting marriage to one man and one woman was unconstitutional. The President wants Congress to: * Expand drilling into the banned areas in the Outer Continental Shelf, estimated to contain 86 billion barrels of oil. * Remove congressional impediments to the production of oil shale with an estimated potential of 21 trillion barrels of new production. * Allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, estimated to have 10.4 billion barrels of oil awaiting extraction. * Expedite judicial and administrative procedures to stop liberal environmental lawyers from blocking new refineries.
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Poor John Adams gets no respect. Oh, sure, our second president was praised 175 years after his death by historian David McCullough in his adoring 2001 biography. And his reputation no doubt will rise again as the HBO miniseries "John Adams" unfolds, beginning Sunday (Reviewed on Page D7). However, when it comes to more lasting tributes, our second president has been sorely overlooked both inside the Beltway and beyond. Monuments on the Mall and Tidal Basin commemorate George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but not a single one in the District honors Adams, who pushed for independence in leading the Second Continental Congress and served as the nation's first vice president. Why the neglect?
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... President because experience in the Continental Congress had disclosed the inexpediency of vesting...
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Sidique Wai, the national president of the United African Congress, a PanAfrican umbrella organization representing the 3.5 million continental Africans, explained the importance of the African Day Parade: "It is an effective bridge-building between new arrivals from Africa, who are beginning the process of connecting with brothers and sisters in this country, the Diaspora, and people of good will." The Sierra Leone-born Wai, a wellrespected and long-standing leader of the African community who presently serves as the administrative community relations specialist for the NYPD, continued: "Through this celebration, you see our traditions being implanted into the social and cultural fabric of Africans in the Americas. Proudly representing their African heritage, the celebrants of this ye...
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Ever wonder where that phrase "put your John Hancock on the dotted line" came from? Well, the expression refers to John Hancock, the president of the Second Continental Congress, who was the first to sign the Declaration *of Independence. Hancock's expansive signature is prominent on the document. Since then, when people are asked for their "John Hancock," they are being asked to sign their names. He immediately became famous for signing the Declaration with a far larger signature than all the other delegates. The actual expression however didn't come into use until c.1903.
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... disapprove these seminal decisions and Congress, in enacting the Torture Victim Protection Act, im... 18 See 34 Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, at 109 (Roscoe R. Hill ed., 1... policy dispute unforeseen by either the President or Congress"). law prohibiting commerce with Fran...
