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Happy Birthday, USA

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THE SUNCOAST NEWS

Published: July 4, 2009

Well, we've done it again. We have spent another year in freedom and opportunity - arguing all the while about how free, how much opportunity and the best way to guarantee both - and arrived back at the anniversary of the founding of our nation. We tend to take this for granted but definitely shouldn't.

Thousands of people recently took to the streets of Iran to protest an election the ruling powers of the Islamic Republic stole through creative vote counting. In fact, the electoral fraud was so brazen it must have been meant as a demonstration of exactly who is in charge.

In Honduras, the military, depending on your point of view, either a) carried out a coup and forced the country's legally elected president into exile or b) enforced an order of the country's Supreme Court that held the president was violating his constitutional powers by trying to remove term limits on the office of the presidency.

In Minnesota, on the other hand, the bare-knuckles legal battle that had raged over one of the state's seats in the U.S. Senate came to an end this week without a shot being fired or a weapon brandished.

So Happy Birthday, USA.

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