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Dishonorable Mention: January 14, 83 BC: Mark Antony.  All the movies made over the years about Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, usually involving Marcus Antonius, gloss over one key fact: Caesar and Antony were the bad guys. Caesar was establishing a dictatorship (though he never used the word "empire"), and Antony was his right-hand man. Dishonorable Mention: January 14, 1741: Benedict Arnold.  Yes, he was wronged, by the Continental Congress and by men he thought were his friends. No, turning coat was not the way to respond to it. Dishonorable Mention: January 14, 1952: Maureen Dowd.  No, she's not a traitor to her country like the previous two. And she did write some pretty rough things in her  New York Times  column about both Presidents George Bush, father and son. But her columns about President Bill Clinton were greatly irresponsible. And when Hillary Clinton was nominated for President, Dowd's columns became absolutely despicable. To make matters worse, it ...