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Margaret J. Wheatley

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In these troubled, uncertain times, we don’t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone’s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

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Buccaneer Blitz
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Strange It Is
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Reactionary America
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The Willamantic Refuseniks
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Competition in Michigan
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The CDC on Self-Defense
April 25, 2024
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Idaho Foils Foul Harvest
April 24, 2024
Paul Jacob defends an apparent abridgment of free trade.Read More »
College Censors Squelched
April 23, 2024
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Brave New Budgets
April 22, 2024
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Brussels Conference Squelched
April 19, 2024
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Long Time (1996+12=2008) Coming
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Politicians Bearing GIFs
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Democracy vs. Power Grabber
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Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
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Agreeable America
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Birth of a Twitterstorm
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Scientists for Censorship
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Socialism Is Anti-Democracy
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Creeping Bernie-ism
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Il Duce Cuomo
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On April 26, 1777, Sibyl Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British. Her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s more famous effort.

On the same day in 1805, United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, an important event in the First Barbary War.

In April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia, shooting him to death. There was no interrogation.