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One of Philadelphia's most popular and iconic sports bars is expanding to Bucks County with a new restaurant, grill, sports bar, and event/banquet space. Founding Fathers will open its second and largest location at 2900 Street Road in Bensalem, PA.

I find it kind of odd when Americans become hostile at the suggestion that the white men who founded this country were racists. We’re talking about men who felt entitled to own other human beings as property based on their race. That’s essentially the definition of racism.

The United States of America has a long and turbulent history in becoming the country it is today. The most disturbing chapter is the conflict with Native Americans and the brutal methods used to resolve it. When the American pioneers began moving into uncharted and treacherous territory, i.e., areas occupied by natives, they understandably faced a push back and a long scuffle for the land, in which both sides used unacceptable methods to achieve their end goal.

With a 3rd term on the horizon, Washington instead chose to recede from public life and to issue a dire warning for his fledgling country. Washington was so worried about political parties that he dedicated his farewell address to warning us about them(Gilbert Stuart, Public Domain)

Thomas Paine, the intellectual architect of the American Revolution, made a logical and impassioned plea for providing everyone with guaranteed income. Thomas Paine is often quoted by anti-government enthusiasts, although he was in favor of Universal Basic Income(Laurent Dabos, Public Domain)

The Founding Fathers would be appalled by modern US politics.Harley Pebley/Wikipedia Commons. The US Founding Fathers were certainly religious, but most questioned the Bible, the intervention of God in the affairs of man, and even the divinity of Christ.