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From the Archive: George Washington Fought Revolutionary War 'For Profit'

With the rise of the Tea Party, their push for constitutional limits on government power and admiration for the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, I thought I’d use this last holiday of the summer as an opportunity to post an item from the MRC’s archive which exposed how a major cable network once tried to discredit George Washington’s moral authority in history, and thus the legitimacy of the Revolutionary War. In an A&E movie, aired in 2000, on George Washington crossing the Delaware, The Crossing, he is persuaded that just like the hired-gun Hessians, his opposition to British taxes means he too is fighting “for profit.” Jeff Daniels, playing George Washington, decries the Hessians: “You want me to weep for those bastards, men who kill for profit?” General Nathanial Greene counters: “Our own cause is, at its heart, a fight against British taxation, is it not? In the end sir, we all kill for profit the British and the Hessians, and us.” That convinces Washington. ....

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Former students, collaborators remember Iowa poet Marvin Bell


Iowa City Press-Citizen
It could be argued the late Marvin Bell is more a part Iowa City than any other writer  not only did he make Iowa City his home for more than 40 years, but his poetry can be found etched into the city s cement and, monumentally, on display in the city s pedestrian mall in its downtown core.
“For one thing, he’s a great poet and possibly the most open-minded and open-spirited collaborator one could imagine ever working with, said Christopher Merrill, a University of Iowa professor and Bell s friend and collaborator throughout those 40 years he spent in eastern Iowa. ....

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