In New Hampshire, Living for a Week in Libertarian Paradise – ABC News

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…the Free State Project, a plan devised in the early 2000s to persuade 20,000 libertarians to move to New Hampshire en masse. New Hampshire was chosen, in part, because of its “Live Free or Die” motto and the relative ease of getting elected to office: The state’s citizen legislature has 424 seats.

…critics say the project and its members aren’t open, especially if they’re running for political office. Many run as Republicans, but some are Democrats, and they don’t always publicly identify themselves as members or supporters of the project.

In New Hampshire, Living for a Week in Libertarian Paradise – ABC News

Disingenuous, carpetbagging leaches. (Go home!!!)

Bernie Sanders Will Vote For Hillary Clinton To Beat Donald Trump

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Bernie Sanders said he’ll vote for Hillary Clinton in November — but more than two weeks after she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sanders remains in the race.

…But Sanders did not concede to or praise Clinton, something many Democrats would like to see before the Democratic National Convention next month to fully unify the party heading into the heat of the fall campaign.

…Pressed by anchor Charlie Rose on what he needs to hear, Sanders said he wants Clinton to call for public universities and colleges to be tuition-free and to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. These are two areas where Sanders and Clinton disagree, but only by degree.

…Sanders is continuing to campaign, though it is not entirely clear what the goal is — perhaps to build momentum and pressure for the platform.

Bernie Sanders Will Vote For Hillary Clinton To Beat Donald Trump : NPR

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400-Year-Old Artifacts Uncovered At First English Settlement In The New World 

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Archaeologists at Roanoke Island, North Carolina have just found 400-year-old artifacts believed to be from the mysterious Lost Colony, the first English settlement in North America.

On July 22, 1587, following in the footsteps of a group of colonists who’d settled there a few years prior, the English arrived at Roanoke. However, all they found from that first group was a skeleton, and within about three years, they themselves would be gone.

When an English mission to resupply the Roanoke Colony made landfall on August 18, 1590, no settlers were found, only the letters “CRO” carved into a tree and the word “Croatan” carved into a fence post nearby.

However, despite sometimes wild theorizing about what strange, tragic fate befell the colonists, the answer is likely quite simple: They went to live with the Croatan Native Americans on nearby Hatteras Island.

In fact, with a number of people on the Island subsequently showing a mixed English/Native America phenotype and speaking a likewise dialect, it’s all but certain that the Roanoke colonists and the Croatan simply began living as one.

…And while the ultimate mystery of the Lost Colony may actually be no mystery at all, finds like Deetz’s will help reconstruct this crucial moment in American history.

400-Year-Old Artifacts Uncovered At First English Settlement In The New World – All That Is Interesting

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Bernie Sanders Fans’ DNC ‘Collusion’ Conspiracy Theory is Embarrassing Garbage 

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Fans and supporters of Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential runner-up Bernie Sanders are crying “collusion” over a leaked memo that they say proves “collusion” between the Democratic National Committee and the media to “rig” the Democratic nominating contest in favor of now-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The only problem with that theory is everything.

Bernie Sanders Fans’ DNC ‘Collusion’ Conspiracy Theory is Embarrassing Garbage | Mediaite

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