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Independence Day, 2011

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Census Bureau, there are more than 300,000,000 of us in the United States, 235 years after John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery, Lewis Morris, William Hooper, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark and 47 other founders mutually pledged to each other " our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Playing the Match Game

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I made that pledge, but I didn’t return the envelope. A typical match program will get a high-net-worth donor to conditionally pledge some money, say, $75,000. They will pay the pledge if you can get another $75,000 to match it. But not now. When I get around to it. Which might not actually happen any time soon.)

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