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    Inside the Beltway

    Lose weight, stop smoking? Uh, no. Revere the U.S. Constitution and save money? You betcha.

  • On loan from the National Archives, Delaware's Copy of the Bill of Rights is now on exhibition in the JewelBox Gallery at the Delaware Public Archives in Dover, Del.. Delaware's copy was kept as a Federal record and safely housed for over two hundred years. As a result, the First State's copy of the Bill of Rights is arguably the best preserved copy still in existence. Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (Michael Connor / The Washington Times)

    EDITORIAL: Celebrate the Bill of Rights

    Today is the national Bill of Rights Day. This commemoration is necessary to help renew appreciation for liberties threatened by Big Government.

  • ** FILE ** This July 4, 2008 file photo shows fireworks as they burst in the night sky of Bullard, Texas as part of its Independence Day celebration.  (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman, FILE) A program that offers free cab rides home to people in the Washington region who have been drinking too much around certain holidays has been salvaged for Independence Day.

    FIELDS: Good reasons to light a firecracker

    Not so long ago, most Americans regarded the Fourth of July as "Independence Day" and called it that, celebrating liberty and freedom, prizing independence above all. For the graduates of high school and college, their "Independence Day" marks the breaking away from parents, of moving toward responsibility. For many of us, it's a celebration mixed with more than a little concern. Where will this new independence take the young? What kind of adults will they become? Have we "done good" by them?

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