On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six months out of the year to give lectures on abolition. His speech was delivered at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. It was a scathing speech in which Douglass stated, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn. read more
Senility is becoming an overt line of attack for the first time in a modern U.S. presidential campaign.
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Season 4 of The Trump Show just doesn't have the zest and sparkle of the previous seasons. "Being ignorable, tedious, and boring is the kiss of death for a politician like Trump. If he has made a central promise to his supporters"and to the public at large"it is to entertain. Now he is violating that commitment."
North Korea's military said Tuesday it is reviewing plans to reenter a border zone that was previously disarmed under an inter-Korean agreement. "Our army is keeping a close watch on the current situation in which the north-south relations are turning worse and worse, and getting itself fully ready for providing a sure military guarantee to any external measures to be taken by the Party and government," the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
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