It has 17 stars because by 1803 four states had joined the original 13 in the Union – Vermont (March 4, 1791), Kentucky (June 1, 1792), Tennessee (June 1, 1796), and Ohio (March 1, 1803); it shows an incongruous number of 15 stripes because specifications for the number of stars...
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Policesaid carrying the black flag of the terrorist organisationwas “not necessarily the worst thing in the world”, adding that the police should not overreact. Californians, Catalonians, Basques, Scots, Irish, Tamils, Kurds, Kashmiri’...
"This really is a national identification card for the United States of America for the first time in our history," said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) in the Senate the day before the spending bill passed. "We have never done this before, and we should not be doing it without a ...