Week of July 2, 2012
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Up Front
![]() Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica: Medicaid and the Eurozone Crisis: Beware the Wages of Sin  | 
![]() How Four Supreme Court Justices Misquoted Alexander Hamilton Ian Mylchreest  | 
On Topic: Fourth of July
![]() The Declaration of Independence -- The Original Abolitionist Document Alexander Tsesis  | 
![]() Reclaiming Beaches for the People on the Fourth of July Andrew W. Kahrl  | 
![]() Channelling George Washington: The Missing Word in the Declaration of Independence Thomas Fleming  | 
     
    
    
    
    
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