I’m going to show this when I’m teaching kids about the growth of technology and how life was different for us when we were kids. And that replaced this!
From MSNBC: This ain’t no ‘double dip’ — it feels more like one long dip Analysis: Textbook policies to restore economic growth in the United States aren’t working because this recession is of a different kind. Just a thought. Perhaps you’re reading from the wrong textbook! Stimulus plans worked in certain situations, say during the […]
I found this opinion piece published by the New York Times quite amusing. It concerns the move by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to declare April Confederate History Month. Before I write anything else, let me tell you my thoughts when I first heard about this… OK, sorry, that wasn’t my first thoughts, here they are. […]
Since reading the wonderful Ron Chernow’s wonderful book, “Hamilton” (a must read), and a history of the panic of 1907 that makes some of the ideas of returning to the gold standard look stunningly foolish, I’ve taken a bit of a sabbatical from history. Well, I’ve returned to the fold. After seeing the mediocre rehash […]
One thing about American law that has struck me as odd, is the fact that Corporations count as de-facto individual persons in regards to various state and federal laws. This has been a part of the fabric of Americans life since the Supreme Court decided such in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad in […]
So Barrack Obama is still floating around platitudes yet taking no action to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Says it’s hard and complicated. Well, how did another president from Illinois deal with the inclusion of a minority into the armed forces? President Abraham Lincoln, realizing that more bodies in a Union uniform would give an […]
to restore my catagories.
On many conservative blogs, you’ll read something like this: The amount of vitriol and harassment Sarah Palin has endured following November as a losing prez or VP candidate is no doubt unprecedented in American history. Uhm, someone doesn’t know much about the revolutionary period. Please read up on the history of John Adams vs. Jefferson […]
I’m reading “The Forgotten Man”. I’m on page 139. I can’t say how much more I will read or if I will finish the book. To say that I’m underwhelmed would be an understatement. It’s dull. I expected some real economic information about the underpinnings and policy decisions made in the twenties that set the […]