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    20 Things America Has Actually Done Right

    This 4th of July, let's focus on the positive.

    1. Defeating the Defense of Marriage Act.

    2. The civil rights movement.

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    3. Electing its first black president.

    4. Putting someone on the moon.

    5. The Great American Novel.

    6. Rock 'n' roll.

    There's been a ton of great music amidst our amber waves of grain, and even though Britain can lay claim to the Beatles and the Stones, we're the ones who invented rock (and hell, blues) in the first place.

    7. Building interstate highway systems.

    8. Baseball.

    9. Building the Panama Canal.

    10. The Wright Brothers inventing flight.

    11. Ice.

    12. Jack Daniels.

    13. Jimi Hendrix.

    14. Shark Week.

    15. The telephone.

    16. NPR.

    17. The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, 1964.

    18. Jon Stewart.

    19. Urinals.

    20. Beyoncé.