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A Republic

Today in 1865 President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the coast of Virginia; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy. In a Republic the power resides with the people; in a Confederacy the power resides with the states. In neither does the power reside with the national government. Our nation is today as far from a republic as was the confederacy. We, the people, need to get control back from the federal government.

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Movie of the Month for March

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Movie of the Month for February

Troops, your viewing assignment for February is to watch the short film Alternative Math. A well-meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post...

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