News is largely from the blogosphere with increasing cutbacks and layoffs at newspapers. The Internet, spin, and propaganda are on the rise.

Nigeria compared to an Adolescent.

The U.S.A. is not just any common creation of nationhood; it is an edifice of hope for others to emulate. The world may change its erstwhile course of democracy, but the Constitution formulated by the founding fathers of this country has not changed and remains unshakeable.

Written from the point of view of the land talking to the people, telling them about the great freedom they now enjoy but could lose, and how great the Founding Fathers were and how we must always be vigilant.

Thomas Paine spoke vigorously for freedom from oppression but also against those things that would put America at the same level as its oppressors, and let us know that aggressive war has as its enemy the very foundation of freedom itself.

About a teenaged slave girl called Sally Hemings. It is set in the late eighteenth century. Sally is owned by a really famous American man and is given the job of looking after his daughter as she travels from America to Paris via London. Sally thinks it will be an easy job, but then stumbles across an anarchist cell with designs to radically alter the political map of Europe. So what does poor Sally do?