It's been 246 years since George Washington watched his army limp its way into winter quarters at Valley Forge.

The enemy held the capital, the Congress was unable to do anything, the army had spent the year getting beaten by the British, and when the weather got better, the British would put an end to this inconvenient rebellion.

But that didn't happen.

We look at why the American winter at Valley Forge was so important, why we're still talking about it today at the start of an election year that feels all too distressingly familiar, and what we can do to stop our country's decline.

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Not ones to leave the U.S. Constitution alone, the dogs and I decide to abolish the Electoral College.

This puts us at odds not only with the small states of the Union, but with our favorite Founding Father (and birthday buddy) Alexander Hamilton. But we're not going to throw away our shot on what has become a partisan coup machine.

So it has to go.

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America’s wisest old man was writing his last will and testament. 

Benjamin Franklin had plenty of people to leave his fortune to – his son William Franklin, former royal governor of New Jersey. His grandson, Temple Franklin, who had been Ben’s secretary during the negotiations with France that got the colonies some much-needed assistance with that whole “give the British a whuppin’” thing. Sally Bache, his daughter. Benjamin Bache, Sally’s son. Or even his sister Jane Franklin.

Everyone got a little something, but there were a couple of surprise bequests - to the two cities he called home - Boston and Philadelphia.

America's most middle class Founding Father made a two hundred-year bet. And he won. Can we do the same?

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