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The management of the Sequoia Voting Systems company willfully sent lousy punch cards to Florida for its 2000 general election.x10 Last August, HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports aired that story, which gives an answer to why so many card ballots did not have a single, clean punch for president.x11 Sequoia management switched from their reliable card […]

The citizens of Washington, D.C., planned a celebration for the United States’ 50th anniversary, and invited the living signers of the Declaration of Independence, among whom was its author, Thomas Jefferson. But he was too sick to attend, and sent his regret in a letter41: It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be […]

Clayton Hall, 14, was bringing the baseball bat for a game in Minneola, Kansas, on “Black Sunday”, April 14, 1935, when the dust storm hit61: “I just got in the middle of the road, … and all of a sudden, I couldn’t see. I thought, well I just got some dust in my eyes. I […]

“This Republican Congress must be fired because they are still putting their own egos above the truth – and above human lives,” wrote an Army Reservist in a letter to MoveOn members appealing for volunteers to call voters41×42. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I watched the attack on the World Trade Center with […]

“My father always taught me to be strong and have dignity, to not have to bow down or have anyone run over you,” said Bunnatine Greenhouse20. An older brother and sister each earned doctorates and taught at universities, her younger brother earned a place in the National Basketball Association hall of fame (Elvin Hayes), and […]