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A pox on you

What did the Founders argue about? Healthcare.

By Andrew M. Wehrman
October 4, 2009

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On a blustery January night in 1774, scarcely a month after the famous Tea Party in Boston, an even more shocking protest unfolded on Massachusetts’ North Shore. In the dead of night, a crew of 20 men blackened their faces and armed themselves with torches and buckets of tar. The object of their anger was not a chest of tea, ... (Full article: 2096 words)

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