Scissor Tales: Risks aplenty for the signers

 
THE OKLAHOMAN EDITORIAL
Published: July 4, 2009

N INE years ago, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was suspended without pay for "serious journalistic misconduct” pertaining to the Declaration of Independence. Not the document itself, mind you, but the fate of the 56 men who signed it.

Jacoby had picked up on a treatise widely circulated on the Internet a decade ago making claims — some true, some specious — about the sacrifices made by ...


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