<div><p>17,201 days.</p><p>That's how long it has been since the last constitutional amendment passed from start to finish in the 20th century, the 26th Amendment -- ratified July 1, 1971.</p><p>The 27th Amendment came later, but it was intended to be a part of the bill of rights -- and took just sh

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<div><p>Another common core complaint? Nope. Failing at our standardized testing? Not even close.</p><p>America's worst math problem right now is in how we talk about numbers in our daily lives, especially in political conversations.</p><p>It's easy to talk about billions and trillions in political 

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<div><p>History always serves us a cautionary tale -- avoiding the mistakes of the past is the surest way to avoid immense criticism, even if all we do is create new mistakes in the process.</p><p>Inaugural celebrations have been no exception. &nbsp;The greatest and most memorable inaugural speeches

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<div><p>The veto process granted by the Constitution ensures that the legislative and executive branches have to share power when it comes to new federal legislation -- while a president might veto a bill, one with popular support can still become law with a super-majority of congressional support f

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<div><p>Margarine? Really?</p><p>That plastic-like stuff that's supposed to taste like butter, but barely looks like it, definitely doesn't smell like it, and has a vague hint of butter flavor that contrary to the marketing you'd never 'believe' it was butter.</p><p>But the 19th century debate of th

Hate Excessive Consumer Regulations and Lobbying? Blame Margarine

<div><p>For over a year, IVN has reported on Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's crusade against fraudulent voters -- including the twists, turns, <a href="http://ivn.us/2016/01/21/kansas-judge-strikes-down-sec-of-state-kobachs-attempt-to-divide-voters-into-two-classes/" rel="noopener noreferrer

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<div><p>April 1995 put radicalized right-wing terrorism firmly in the minds of Americans and law enforcement, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. At the time, this was the single largest act of terrorism ever committed on American soil.</p><

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<div><p>A romanticized view of a past that never happened the way we thought&nbsp;is one of the greatest disservices to a functioning modern republic.</p><p>It gives us the impression that everything the demi-gods of the past did was right, and everything our modern leaders do is open to the highest

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<div><blockquote><em>Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?</em> -- The Gospels</blockquote><p>My middle-school aged daughter serves on the Student Council, with one of the largest projects so far this year being a food drive for the needy.</p><p>Thousands of cans of food were donated, alo

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