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Wait, he named his son Madison?

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What they called "yellow" back in the day. (I wonder how many Textards know who the "Yellow Rose of Texas" really was.)

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Eminently unhappy with the majority opinion issued years ago. Put the minority into one room, and presto! -- instant assembly of "eminent" scholars, who rehash the same evidence and come up with -surprise - their own conclusion.

Truther-type web pages and their boneheaded adherents coming in 3, 2, 1...

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So...the dissenters think he wore protection when he banged his slaves?

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Also, it's said that Sally looked a lot like his dead, much-beloved wife, too. But of course a widower shtupping his wife's lookalike half-sister is just SO IMPROBABLE.

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Hooooo, boy! I can't wait until Annette Gordon-Reed gets a hold of these fuckers and tears them to shreds.

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Those were white ladies. On the other hand, they were French ... this is gonna be a tough call for the truthertards.

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Too hard to pronounce. "Mixed-of-kin", on the other hand, is a winner.

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whoa whoa whoa let's not get ahead of ourselves here. as christine o'donnell said:

<i>You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?</i>

it is a bagger's job to question the liberal perceived order of things ('facts') you know.

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But wasn't Randolph gay?

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Putting "Heritage" in the name of an organization is a pretty good indication of their orientation. And I am not excepting the American Heritage Dictionary from this. Some of those Indo-European etymologies look suspiciously "sanitized."

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