Tag: history
member name: Steve Bachman
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November 14, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
To take a clear and objective look at the tapestry of social phenomena comprising the human condition, it is immediately discernible that custom and habit are often more dominant social forces than are . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:26 PM EST --
Having been consigned to the status of "moonbat" by the consensus of the Gather right-wing community, I am obliged to provide a little insight into the reasoning behind some of the views . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
An Open Letter to the Government of the United States of America
I've been paying close attention to all of the things that have been occurring in this nation for the past several years -- things . . .
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May 03, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
"Cut-n-run" -- What the Bush administration did in Afghanistan in order to prepare for the invasion of Iraq, ultimately resulting in the escape of Osama bin Laden and much of his al Qaeda network . . .
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January 30, 2008 10:30 PM EST --
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson
To the average, everyday American, the idea that legal tender . . .
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January 13, 2007 07:40 AM EST --
One of the things that struck me about President Bush's speech to the nation the other night was the sly kind of way he admitted to making mistakes in his Iraq war policies, without actually admitting . . .
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January 11, 2007 10:10 PM EST --
Representing the Democratic-Republican party -- Considered the father of American democracy; One of the great thinkers in modern history; Author of the Declaration of Independence; Inventor; . . .
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February 20, 2007 07:15 PM EST --
The Illogic of Empire
by Gary Younge
From the February 5, 2007 edition of The Nation magazine.
On March 6, 1947, not long after Britain had set a timetable for withdrawing . . .
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May 13, 2007 03:56 PM EDT --
In December 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court created a new law out of thin air and made sure that new law benefitted only one man, George W. Bush. Since then, there has been much discussion, accompanied . . .
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August 06, 2007 07:35 PM EDT --
Left vs. Right: The Illusion of Opposites
by G. Edward Griffin
Would you rather be a Neoconservative or a Progressive? That is a trick question. The trick is in the fact that, although there . . .
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June 19, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough's book, "John Adams":
"The American Revolution was made by British subjects, individual men and . . .
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October 13, 2007 07:59 PM EDT --
This movie was made in 1981, and is based on the real-life experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, California in 1967.
The movie begins with a high school history teacher, Mr. Ross, speaking to . . .
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October 21, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Despite the Texas Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul's frequent and instructive attempts to clarify the details about his foreign policy stance -- that of "non-intervention," . . .
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January 09, 2007 09:18 PM EST --
"Whenever the People are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." -- Thomas Jefferson
Those words by Thomas Jefferson echo one of the most important tenets of . . .
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January 16, 2007 09:19 PM EST --
I originally posted this article last November. Since then, the situation has gotten worse. I am even more convinced in the wisdom of the solution I offered in this article now than I was when I first . . .
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July 29, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
Inflation is the cruelest and most dishonest tax of all, as it falls hardest on the poor and middle-class and those on fixed incomes, and its true nature is never discussed by politicians* or the corporate . . .
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September 23, 2007 02:08 PM EDT --
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Philips
"A republic... If you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin
Two-hundred and thirty years ago, men fought . . .
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March 02, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
Obituary for William F. Buckley
by Steven L. Bachman
The recent passing of William F. Buckley, Jr. brought the expected torrent of praise-in-memoriam; exalting . . .
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