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"The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission" is a new look at a very old dispute about American history. (Carolina Academic Press)

New book disputes claim Jefferson fathered children of slave Hemings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

City State: Morning Roundup

By Joseph Weber - The Washington Times

Illustration: Declaration of Independence

NUGENT: Independence Day revival

By Ted Nugent

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?’

By William Murchison - The Washington Times

Jefferson prizes for public service awarded to 18

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury secretary

What would the Founding Fathers do?

By Richard Brookhiser - Special to The Washington Times

Jefferson’s books found in Mo. university library

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

National Public Radio has transformed its Studio 4A into a war room for election night coverage. About 60 to 80 people will be answering phones, updating the Web site, NPR.org, and broadcasting live from about 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on election night. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

RAHN: Spending for tyranny

By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times

NUGENT: Extremely American

By Ted Nugent

BOOK REVIEW: ‘God of Liberty’

By James Srodes - The Washington Times

SIMMONS: Educators, pols just don’t get it

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Associated Press
President Obama, through his spokesman Robert Gibbs, says he will keep his campaign promise not to raise taxes on Americans making less than $250,000 per year. He reminded his advisers of that pledge in a daily economic briefing Monday, the spokesman said.

KULIGOWSKI: Obama doesn’t understand his country

By Monte Kuligowski - The Washington Times

Armstrong Williams (Courtesy of armstrongwilliams.com)

WILLIAMS: Happy 234th birthday, America

By Armstrong Williams - The Washington Times

William Barker is a historical interpreter who portrays Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg and elsewhere.

Inside the Beltway

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence previously resided in Wiscasset, Maine, but is now owned by Richard Adams Jr., a Virginia technology entrepreneur. Only 11 of about 250 copies of the 1776 Declaration of Independence are known to still exist. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Thomas Jefferson’s reset button

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Flight from Monticello’

KUHNER: Will America break up?

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

ART: Monticello’s new visitor center

SOWELL: Negative advertising

By Thomas Sowell

The consolations of history