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Barack Obama vows to 'change the world' »
Posted by: monicachenoa 1 month ago in Politics
The supremely confident demeanour and exalted rhetoric of the Democratic nominee at a New Hampshire event betrayed that he is a man convinced he is ...
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Were the States Sovereign Nations? »
Posted by: populist 3 months ago in News
A defining – but so far unasked – question regarding the Civil War is the political status of the states: specifically, was the “United States of America ...
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Who's Afraid of Friedrich Hayek? »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Right wingers love Friedrich Hayek. The Austrian-British economist is revered by true believers at the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the National Review, and ...
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11 charged in largest ID theft in U.S. history »
Posted by: monicachenoa 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Federal authorities said Tuesday that they had cracked the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history, charging 11 people in the theft of ...
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The Political Economy of John Taylor of Caroline »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 1 week ago in News
In Taylor’s opinion, artificial aristocrats can only sustain their projects in the long run through some form of political despotism—consolidation, empire, or monarchy ...
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A Fake Banking History of the United States »
Posted by: populist 1 month ago in Politics
Ask yourself this question: Was the housing price bubble, which has burst, caused by: a) a Fed policy of too much liquidity, which caused artificially ...
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Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, Adieu »
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Politics
I give you Exhibit A: Nearly everybody in the United States today believes that he is living in a free country! The disconnect between perception ...
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Jewish, Nazi objects found in dump near Berlin »
Posted by: israeligirl1 2 weeks, 6 days ago in News
Jewish objects from pre-World War II German Jewish homes, were found in a dump near Berlin, where the Nazis buried rejected loot from the the ...
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Living in a World with Less Credit »
Posted by: _kam0_ 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
Every tumultuous period of financial boom and bust comes to be defined by a word or catchphrase. Tulipmania. The Great Depression. The dotcom bubble. The ...
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Youth Vote helped make history in 2008 election »
Posted by: jwag57 1 week, 6 days ago in Politics
But the smartest thing that Obama and his campaign did in the 2008 election was to connect with these young voters through technology . The Obama ...
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Obama: Beware the Lessons of '93 »
Posted by: hyperbola 5 days, 20 hours ago in Politics
Barack Obama seeks a new era of bipartisanship, but he should take heed of what happened to the last Democrat in the White House, Bill ...
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Happy Birthday, Compact Disc. Now Go Away »
Posted by: Wil 3 months ago in Science & Technology
On this day in 1982, Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics released the first CDs to the German public, forever changing the way music would be ...
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Bolivia's landlocked sailors pine for the high seas »
Posted by: idyll 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
South America's poorest country lost its coast in a 1879-1884 war with Chile and wants it back. La Fuerza Naval Boliviana exists to keep ...
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How First Mate Shifted the Ship of State's Course »
Posted by: idyll 2 months ago in News
In “Angler,” his forceful new study of Mr. Cheney’s tenure in office, the Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman writes that “the vice president shifted ...
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U.S. Constitution in Graphic Novel Form »
Posted by: brendoman 1 month ago in Politics
Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell's The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation is a sweet, quick, thoroughgoing history of the US Constitution. I'm ...
