To me, America is home, the New World, from North (Canada) to South (Argentina/Chile/Galapagos) – we are all Americans. As the United States, well, it’s my un/familiar homeland. My ancestral lineage predates the American Colonial Era, and I’m sure all of my ancestors would

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When I was asked to write about my life in America, I got excited. I thought I had so much to say and talk about, surely, this was a piece of cake. Well, it wasn’t. Yet, here I am trying to share my story. I want to start with a little background about me. I […]

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I grew up in Central Missouri in the 1960s and 1970s. People drove around our town with guns mounted in the back of their pickups — mostly twenty-gauge shotguns and .22s. I had friends who hunted regularly. Duck season was big in our neck of the woods. So was driving around with a couple

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Cross-posted on Coffee Party USA. At one point in the conversation, anarchist ex-Marine Adam Kokesh implied to Annabel Park that he was carrying a gun. Her response: a laugh. Part 1 (9 min) Yesterday Annabel Park tweeted out her new motto, “Be Civil But Fearless.”

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Dear Friends, I have been reflecting a good deal on this past year and why my new project Story of America means so much to me.  It was a difficult year for many of us because, regardless of how you feel about the outcome of the 2012 election, the debates that we witnessed this year […]

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Quentisha Mason submitted this video to us sharing her thoughts on why she thinks America is so divided. It’s a cognitive and cultural problem: over simplification. For example, the “government” is not out to get you. Share you views and story with us.

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A week after the Newtown massacre, NRA held a press conference at 10:45am December 21, 2012 inside the Willard Hotel. They had been silent about the massacre all week. Without taking questions, Wayne LaPierre called for armed guards at every school across the nation. Outside the Willard Hotel,

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Virginia resident and pro-gun advocate, Larry Ward, interrupted protesters who gathered on Friday, Dec 21, 2012 to deliver a petition with 200,000 signatures to the NRA during its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During the press conference, the NRA called for armed guards at

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I used to have it all, and by “all” I mean a house, because that is what I don’t have now. I also have a law degree, a master’s, and an Ivy League undergraduate degree, fluency in several languages, a personality that makes it easy for me to get along with people (and thus get […]

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Yes, actually, it is the guns. And yes, simultaneously it is mental illness. Yes, it is television. And yes, it is the movies and the music and the games. Yes, it is desensitization. Yes, it is the media. Yes, it is money.Yes, it is the times.Yes, it is technology.Yes, it is the power of

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