History
“History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.” –Cicero.
Heninger: America isn’t dead. It’s just dead in the water.
Dan Heninger of the WSJ issues forth a cautionary column. It’s sobering.
At the start of 2008, according to Pew, well before the September financial implosion, 41% said the U.S. was the world’s leading economic power; 30% said China. By this November, those numbers had flipped: 44% said China was on top; only 27% said...
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Fox News Alert – America Under Siege
This is day 330 of the Obama hostage crisis. In a show of ‘unprecedented’ arrogance, the Obama cartel continues to occupy the White House despite that a plurality of the citizenry either wants Bush back or is simply burned out on Obama. Obama continues to refuse to resign, and the Pentagon remains too cowed...
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Thomas Friedman on The Narrative
My opinion of TF as one of the great writers holds. He penned an OpEd in the NYT that uses Fort Hood to assail (rightly) the Muslim Mein Kampf named “The Narrative”.
The Narrative is the cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11....
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Pelosi: Social change = political violence
The speaker has stated something that seems obvious to me.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today’s angry political climate could cause people to cross the line from heated talk to dangerous actions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today’s...
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Remembering September 11
For the men and women killed in the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
For the brave first responders, servicemen & women, and civilians who made the sacrifice in trying to save lives that day.
For the passengers and crew of the flights who overcame immeasurable fear in sounding the alarm that we were being attacked.
For the passengers...
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Hoover, friend of Labor?
This report will certainly ruffle some political and pundit feathers: A UCLA economist is publishing a study on the Great Depression and how, in the economist’s belief, President Hoover’s pro-labor actions at the end of his administration worsened the Depression.
Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted...
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Reagan on Nationalized Medicine
This is a short clip of Ronald Reagan from his 1961 LP “Ronald Reagan speaks out against Socialized Medicine”
“…one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
The transcript of the recording...
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