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When Democracy's Symbols Get Hijacked: How the Far Right Co-Opted Classical Imagery

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel wreaths, Roman eagles, and the fasces. These icons, carved into our government ...
Redlands Daily Facts

Professing Faith: How doves, eagles and falcons became religious symbols

Every morning as your author sips his life-giving coffee and pursues the internet news sites for the latest analysis of who hates whom, he is accompanied by a feeder full of birds. Yours truly has a ...
Redlands Daily Facts

Professing faith: The eagle is a religious symbol as well as a national one

As our great nation celebrates its independence, along with the fireworks, music and the Stars and Stripes, one of the best known symbols to be shown and celebrated is the bald eagle, our national ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Commentary: When democracy’s symbols get hijacked — How the far right co-opted classical imagery

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel wreaths, Roman eagles and the fasces. These icons, carved into our government ...