Europe: 1920’s – After the extremely expensive World War 1, Europe’s financial system was in tatters. Germany was expected to pay reparations to cover the costs of restoring economies in neighboring countries, due to a war they helped create and perpetuate. Fast Forward some 90 years. Europe: 2011 – After the meltdown of worldwide financial […]
So there is this book series called “A Song of Ice and Fire”, many people know of it from the HBO series “Game Of Thrones”. The setting is a fictitious Medieval land of several Kingdoms, and a number of houses either plotting to take over the throne, or other houses trying to stop them. Thing […]
How it was crafted, in Jefferson’s own words, from his point of view…. OK. It’s not Jefferson himself, but Jefferson scholar Clay Jenkinson, who portrays the writer of the Declaration every week on The Thomas Jefferson Hour! The Declaration podcast, which explains so much about how that wonderful document was crafted, is HERE! There is a little […]
In his own words. Let me know where you find the part where he was charged with warning the British not to mess with us! I, PAUL REVERE, of Boston, in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England; of lawful age, do testify and say; that I was sent for by Dr. Joseph […]
Well, a number of Conservative are jumping all over the press and critics who lambasted Sarah Palin on her Paul Revere quote. For instance, Glen Reynolds (Insta-P) has this featured on his blog today: PAUL REVERE UPDATE: Experts back Sarah Palin’s historical account. He then writes: Money quote: “A lot of the criticism is unfair […]
Yes… Wisconsin again… And now, Indiana apparently. If this trend grows, what should be done about the practice of using desertion as a political weapon. I was thinking, should the Republicans pass a law making it illegal for legislators to skip town in order to avoid a vote? Think about it. Could such a law […]
From a post over at gay Patriot: We promote democracy, and watch Islamists gain power from Iraq to Palestine. Duh! When you have a sizable population whose political / theological beliefs lean in that direction… You’re expecting anything different? That said, something has been bothering me while listening to a lot of conservative squawkers concerning […]
I have no idea just what is going to become of Tunisia and Egypt. Hopefully it will be better than what they had before. The Old World is crumbling at our feet, and, unlike our fathers before, our generation gets to watch it happen in real-time.
A news story appeared yesterday that revealed some 98 small community banks (a “ton” as described by the headline) that took TARP funds are on the brink of failure. 98 American banks that received $4.2 billion in bailout money are teetering on the edge of collapse, according to the Wall Street Journal. In Q2 the […]
Here are more meteorological details than you ever thought you’d know about this tragedy . Like many of my generation, I only know of the story through the lyrics of the Gordon Lightfoot song about the ship. As a kid, I remember listening to the song, and thinking that the Edmund Fitz must have been a real […]