Independence Day "A republic, if you can keep it." The SF Chronicle wasn't too optimistic that we could. "Our elections and our legislative decisions are becoming more and more dominated by big-money interests, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court all but eviscerated post-Watergate compaign-finance laws...Too many students are graduating from high school with an insufficient appreciation of U.S. history and civics. Our civil liberties have been under serious strain since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...domestic surveillance, phone-record data-collection--and the continued presence of a legal netherworld at Guantanamo Bay...Keeping a republic is hard work, and patriotism is not measured by how much red, white and blue is exhibited on the Fourth..."
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