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Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias | December 19th 2009 by mattie
December 19, 2009 Talking with Charlie Gibson he brought up his legacy and how the healthcare bill: will be the single most important piece of domestic legislation that’s passed since Social Security. And back in August, during his “Organization read more
This Land is Your Land...Unless You're Japanese in America in 194…
History Girl | December 17th 2009
On December 17, 1944 the U.S. Army announced it would be ending its policy of holding Japanese Americans in internment camps, allowing “evacuees” to return home. President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 which bega read more
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor
The Classic Liberal Blog | December 9th 2009 by theCL
Politicians lie. FDR lied about Pearl Harbor. FDR adopted a strategy to provoke Japan into attacking us. FDR knew in advance about the attack, but let the tragedy of Pearl Harbor happen anyway. Do Freedom of Information Act Files Prove FDR Had Forekn read more
December 8, 1941: The War with Japan Begins
History Blog | December 8th 2009 by Daniel
December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to read more
A Day That Lives in Infamy: The 68th Anniversary of the Attack on…
History Girl | December 7th 2009
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft launched a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The first wave of Japanese aircraft hit Pearl Harbor at 7:51 a.m. The shocking attack nearly devastated the American navy read more
A Pearl Harbor Day Apology
Write On New Jersey | December 7th 2009 by Tom Petruzzelli
The island of Oahu, in Hawaii’s archipelago, is a paradise of flowering trees, warm ocean breezes, and pristine beaches. But its bay, Pearl Harbor, is testimony to one of the blackest and yet most commemorated days in American History. On read more
Where's Our Modern Day CCC?
the New American Village | December 7th 2009 by James Polk
This week's newspaper column. Read it in the Hattiesburg American. Over the years, I, along with millions of fellow Americans, have enjoyed the fruits of an initiative born the better part of a century ago. In 1933, the United States was read more
68 Years Ago…
Photography by John Michael | December 7th 2009 by John Michael
07 DEC 1941 – “… A Day that will live in infamy… ” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt His reaction to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii – “Why we fight…” ©2009 Photography by John read more
Happy Days Are Here Again! The End of Prohibition
History Girl | December 6th 2009
For most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people believed that one of the greatest threats to society was the consumption of alcohol. Men and women of different origins and creeds stood united by the belief that society's ills we read more
FDR's New Deal Makes A Strong Case For The Public Option
The Liberal Curmudgeon | December 1st 2009 by Jeff Tone
Adam Cohen, in "Roosevelt Understood the Power of a Public Option," makes a strong case for the ways in which FDR's New Deal programs met the basic needs of millions. They also kept private industry honest while not destroying it–despite criticism read more
Jules Jurgensen Women’s 14K Solid Gold Collection Bracelet Watc…
Best Deals and Coupons | December 1st 2009
Product Description JULES JURGENSEN HISTORY Jules Jurgensen has a history that dates back to the early 1700s. It is one of the very oldest continuous watch companies in existence today with a heritage that extends to Denmark, France and finally Swit read more
CCC Revisited
the New American Village | November 30th 2009 by James Polk
As the Great Depression shook the economic foundation of the United States, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated a federal stimulus program called the Civilian Conservation Corps better known as, simply, the CCC. The CCC gave unemployed me read more
So You Want to be President? Learn to Play a Musical Instrument!
Learning to play the piano. play piano online | November 18th 2009 by linden huckle
President Harry S. Truman, the man in the White House when the United States intervened on behalf of the millions of innocent people who were being displaced and massacred by Hitler’s Nazi Germany, claimed to have practiced his piano lessons fo read more
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Someone Else’s Happiness
100 Treatises | November 15th 2009
It is typically very difficult to discuss major changes in the American social contract without raising cries of socialism or anti-americanism (or any combination thereof). Nevertheless, if this country is to have any kind of decent future, changes w read more
Conservative Values Win In New Jersey And Virginia Governors' Rac…
84rules | November 4th 2009 by 84rules
What a difference one year makes! Just this time last year, the Dems won Virginia by 6 points. They then proceeded to proclaim the Commonwealth of Virginia a "Blue" state and went even further to proclaim that Conservatism was dead and the GOP woul read more
Omaha 6/13-06-44 (C-1)
European Center of Military History | November 3rd 2009 by Gunter G. Gillot Jr
Avant-Propos – 2009 Avant de publier sur ce site l’ouvrage des Editions Foxmaster que je dirigeais dans les courant des années 1990-1995 et avant de me séparer de la Société en prenant soins toutefois de conserver le catalogue et le read more
Obama's stimulus, FDR and Bush
The Fat Limey | November 2nd 2009 by Richard
When I read things like Paul Krugman's Op-Ed in today's New York Times, I'm immediately reminded of the 1930s. Here's what Krugman has to say: The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is workin read more
The ‘Great Recession’
Free Market Mojo | October 19th 2009 by Ariel Goldring
Steven Horwitz, professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and blogger at The Austrian Economists, gave a presentation in March of 2009 on the causes of the current recession – specifically, how many of those causes have their origins in read more
A Pinoy ‘New Deal’
URBAN POOR ASSOCIATES NEWS DIGEST | October 19th 2009 by john lagman
Inquirer.netInquirer Opinion / ColumnsCommentary : A Pinoy ‘New Deal’By Denis MurphyPhilippine Daily InquirerPosted date: October 18, 2009MANILA, Philippines-In the days after Ted Kennedy's death, when people discussed his role in American politi read more
Assassinating Roosevelt: A Warning from History
The Fat Limey | October 16th 2009 by Richard
Nearly 100 years ago this week, John Flammang Schrank attempted to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt. This event stands as an important warning from history and a reminder that the issues that face political parties and their supporters today are nothi read more
How “Great” Is This Recession?
Write On New Jersey | October 11th 2009 by Tom Petruzzelli
History has a habit of repeating itself, maybe in not exactly the same sequence. Today’s fiscal woes are a reflection of the Great Depression of the twentieth century. An economic tailspin ending in financial disaster and many suicides, the Depre read more
Obama's Powerful Health Care Speech, and the Same Old Republican…
Infinite Regress | September 9th 2009 by Paul Levinson
Barack Obama gave a powerful, specific, inspiring speech to Congress and the American people tonight. He reached out to Republicans, saying he would pursue medical malpractice insurance reform, something Republicans have long and justifiably sought read more
Barack Obama’s Mistakes Leading Us Closer to a 2nd Great Depres…
Happily Oblivious | September 8th 2009 by Coralie
A recent study, endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan, finds that the Obama administration’s actions during the ongoing financial crisis in the United States has the potential to deepen the current economic troubles and prevent long term read more
Public is Resisting Obama’s Liberal Agenda
The Liberal Democrat | August 7th 2009 by Will
By Victor Davis Hanson Why does President Obama want to implement all at once radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care and the tax code? The answer is easy: If he does not achieve these initiatives so read more
Reid evokes FDR as Obama administration ducks ‘middle class’…
The US Report | August 3rd 2009 by Kay B. Day
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt redistributed wealth with disastrous consequences. [Image from US Library of Congress.]Key members of President Barack Obama’s administration ducked questions about a ‘middle class’ tax hike on Su read more
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