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Reprinted in its entirety from Seacoastonline.com “We were reminded that democracy, as the founders warned, is fragile.” – J. Dennis Robinson

You can’t make this stuff up…

Susan Rice: “As a result North Korea‘s ruling elite who have been living large while impoverishing their people….” The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose a new sanction on North Korea that ‘specifies some luxury items North Korea’s elite is not allowed to import, such as yachts, racing cars, luxury automobiles and certain types …

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“The ordinary people were not happy. They loathed the Emperor’s interference in every detail of their daily lives.”

“Why should they be forbidden to bake ginger-bread just because Joseph thought it bad for the stomach? Why the Imperial edict demanding the breast-feeding of infants? Why the banning of corsets? From these and a thousand other petty regulations, enforced by a secret police, it looked to the Austrians as though Joseph were trying to …

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