Bigotry rationalized Nov 17, 2009
Don't look now but many time in American history laws have been changed to conform with the intent of the Constitution. That's what we're talking about here too. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Rooney: How To Become A Citizen Nov 16, 2009
They give you a reading and writing exam and a test on American history. In 1996 I did a piece about immigration and I wanted to compare the exam they gave then to the new one they're giving to anyone who applies for now. (CBS News)
The Sweep: Deflating the SEC balloon Nov 16, 2009
Sports serve as a catharsis everywhere, and so I believe that it's not just an accident of college football history, but partially one of American history, that college football is such a religion down here. Now, I'm glad college football is adored in the South just like I have adored it my whole life and have met fans from across the country who love the game as well. (TheBootleg.com)
LETTER: Country is 'progressing' to a political monopoly Nov 16, 2009
Progressive liberals have for decades been engaged in the decomposition of American culture that progressively teaches school-children at a younger and younger age to believe in a demythologized American history by demonizing the founding spirit that was in fact deliberately informed by the Judeo-Christian worldview. Americans have historically rejected socialistic collectivism of the various Marxist models. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Pembroke Veterans Day winning student essays Nov 14, 2009
All through out American history, we have fought for freedom. We have always fought to prove that every man is equal to the next. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)
Saucy reduction of the Bard Nov 13, 2009
The company has created seven stage shows by cleverly distilling other subjects, including American history, the Bible, Great Books and Hollywood. Its work-in-progress "The Complete World of Sports (Abridged)" will premiere next September. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Weight of War Is Showing on Obama Nov 13, 2009
Obama, by far, the WORST mistake in American history. by BlaksRLo November 12, 2009 4:20 PM EST. (CBS News)
Winning the Abortion Battle but Losing the Pro-life War Nov 13, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009, was an important day in American history ... Another similarly dark day in American history was January 22, 1973the day the Supreme Court placed political agendas ahead of the right to life through their Roe v. Wade ruling. (Townhall.com)
D.C. named top city for young professionals Nov 13, 2009
"We are spoiled rotten in the sense that we can walk into a museum and pay nothing," said Jenny Wei, an education specialist at the National Museum of American History and a former GW graduate. Wei said that although most museums do not have the resources to appeal directly to young professionals as their main demographic, the internships and jobs they offer are great ways for young people to get their foot in the door. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
President trips up Nov 13, 2009
What is being foisted upon President Obama in print and protest is not new in American history, but has gotten more vicious during times of national distress and frustration. Such has occurred with Presidents Lincoln, Carter, Clinton, Hoover and Bush II.. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Today's Mailbag: Fort Hood Nov 13, 2009
Could any other general in American history have said it any worse. QUENTIN N. FAIRCHILDFort Myers. (The News-Press -- Opinion)
Why We Need al Qaeda Nov 12, 2009
He was as you say a member of a pack of self-taught angry young men and was responsible for the second worst terrorist attack in American history. Again it was a matter of risk. (Slate)
President honors Farmington veteran Nov 12, 2009
"One of the saddest episodes in American history was the fact that these vets were often shunned and neglected, even demonized when they came home. That was a national disgrace. And on days such as this, we resolve never to let it happen again.". The Anonymous Battle took place in the dog's head of Cambodia in March of 1970. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
LETTER: Veterans should be honored all year long Nov 12, 2009
Throughout the course of American history, our military has proved itself to be courageous, persevering, as well as intelligent in the face of war and peace. The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard have defended our country with dedication, some sacrificing their lives for us. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Home of the Brave Nov 11, 2009
Then, of course, there are the fine museums, the best museums in the nation for art, for natural history, for American history, for the Holocaust, for Air and Space. A man or woman could spend a year at the Smithsonian with endless variety and profit to the mind. (Human Events Online)
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life Nov 10, 2009
"Leap," first published in 1981, is a heavily illustrated and factually challenged attempt to explain American history through an unspoken lens of Mormon theology. As such, it is an early entry in the ongoing attempt by the religious right to rewrite history. (Salon)
4 Reasons The American Dream Will Be Over Unless We Act Nov 10, 2009
Throughout American history, generations of our countrymen took pride in leaving the country better than the one they grew up in. Their attitude about sacrifice was summed up by this classic quotation from. (Townhall.com)
Germany Marks the Fall of the Berlin Wall Nov 10, 2009
START teaching the "real" American history to our young children and adults. EVEN if it supports and promotes other ideologies. (CBS News)
Letters to the Editor Nov 9, 2009
I have a degree in American history from Mills College and a master's degree from California State University, Sacramento, in education, but I can't marry the person I love with all of my heart because complete strangers aren't "on board with it.". If you voted yes on Proposition 8, or are "on board" with discriminating against gays, please step forward and volunteer yourself and your precious rights as the next fodder for the ballot box. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Let's welcome Medal of Honor recipient Jack Jacobs Nov 8, 2009
The recipient of three Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Medal of Honor, Jacobs is one of the most highly decorated soldiers in American history. After retiring from the Army, Col. Jacobs became an investment banker, an entrepreneur and a real-estate developer. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Halloween boot a horror story Nov 8, 2009
pwb wrote on Nov 7, 2009 5:51 PM:" I should probably wait to hear userid's response, because I am really interested to know if he or she actually believes that the booting business should remain in private hands. Or if anybody else here is really happy that booting is a for-profit arm of law enforcement.Areas with privately run jails have much higher incarceration rates, and are much more likely to throw heavy prison sentences for minor crimes and first offenders. The temptation for corruption... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
"The September Issue" Nov 8, 2009
Takeaway: Kind of a downer, and isn't it always like that with American history. Sometimes I feel like the entire story of this country goes from periods of overweening arrogance to a series of heartbreaking missed opportunities, and then back again. (Salon)
Dogs vs. SUVs vs. the earth, debunked Nov 7, 2009
" Are you saying that diplomacy always fails? No, foolishness does. Perhaps when he gets nowhere on Iran, nowhere with North Korea, when he gets nothing from the Russians in return for what he did to the Poles and the Czechs, gets nowhere in the Middle East peace talks -- maybe at that point he'll begin to rethink whether the world really runs by international norms, consensus, and sweetness and light, or whether it rests on the foundation of American and Western power that, in the final... (Salon)
The man who sold the war Nov 7, 2009
To me, this was the worst intelligence failure in American history. Never before has America gone to war and sacrificed so much blood, treasure and prestige on chasing an utter delusion. (Salon)
Today in History Nov 7, 2009
See an animation of American History from 1789 in ten minutes. Easily see 6,000 years of Bible and world history together. (Yahoo News)
James Ellroy really loves his work Nov 7, 2009
" The book - 600-plus pages of short sentences - was more than eight years in the writing. With the interwoven story lines and multiple characters, "Blood's a Rover" follows "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand" in rewriting a chunk of American history, and starts just as Nixon is assuming the presidency. One of the main fictional characters in "Blood's a Rover" is a femme fatale named Joan Klein, who might be "a red diaper peacenik or an armed-robber manque. " Many of the book's... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Written out of the story Nov 7, 2009
As if all of this were somehow not enough, Webb was the beneficiary of one of the greatest media-electoral windfalls of modern American history: the infamous moment. (Though I can't prove the counterfactual, I firmly believe that despite all the other advantages, sans macaca, Webb still loses. (Salon)
Fast Facts: Fort Hood Nov 6, 2009
It remained the deadliest shooting rampage in American history until the Virginia Tech Massacre. 2008: On Sept. 8, 2008 a lieutenant who had gone to ask about missing military equipment at a Killeen apartment near Fort Hood was killed by a soldier, who then committed suicide. (CBS News -- US)
The Treaty of Tripoli hoax Nov 6, 2009
Aasen and David (commenting online to Boyd) believe they can expunge the Christian foundation of American history with the erroneous conclusion they love to draw from one sentence in Article 11 of that treaty (quoted below). That sentence simply means our government isn't a theocracy not that the Christian principles of the Bible aren't its foundation. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
U.S. Army Base Violence Has Bloody History Nov 6, 2009
It was the deadliest shooting rampage in American history until the Virginia Tech Massacre. July 18, 2009: Thirty-year-old soldier from Wisconsin is shot and killed by a bullet fired during a party at Fort Hood. (CBS News)
Pieces of the Past: 1954 Nov 6, 2009
(CBS) 1954 was a huge for American history and pop culture. And in "The Early Show"'s "Time Machine" series, weather anchor and features reporter Dave Price "traveled" back in time to that year and brought back some of the images and iconic items that have stuck with us for more than half a century. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Can It Be? A Party for Capitalism? Nov 5, 2009
For perhaps the first time in American history, seemingly rational adults will sit down and spend significant time dissecting the off-off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York's much-discussed 23rd Congressional District. Naturally, a consensus will emerge. (Townhall.com)
The Off-Year Elections and the Politics of the Obvious Nov 5, 2009
In 2008, as the junior senator from Illinois campaigned across the country, demonstrating his gifts as a motivational speaker and community organizer, all one had to do was review his recent life to know that he was about to bring down on the country -- ever so incompetently -- the most left-wing government in American history. And so he has -- with the utmost incompetence. (Townhall.com)
Greensboro civil rights museum names curator Nov 5, 2009
He was also curator of education and director of exhibitions and research during a 10-year tenure with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. We received interest from candidates across the country, and Bamidele s proven record for creating relevant and thought-provoking experiences for museum visitors stood out in our selection process, said Melvin Skip Alston, chairman of the museum. (Triad Business Journal, NC)
Election 2009: What's At Stake? Nov 4, 2009
--In New York, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to spend more than $100 million of his fortune in a bid for a third term, the most expensive self-financed campaign in American history. --In Houston, four candidates were competing to succeed three-term Mayor Bill White, including city Controller Annise Parker, who would be the city's first openly gay mayor. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)
Remembering 1990 Nov 4, 2009
It would be nice to know this portion of American History was'nt forgotten. by shelea November 3, 2009 10:01 AM EST. (CBS News)
Black center in Aiken seeks more funds Nov 4, 2009
5 million and close to two years for the Center for African American History, Art and Culture to open. Wade Brodie, the chairman for Aiken Corp., the company that owns the center at York Street and Richland Avenue, said $1. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Jill Lepore: Why is American history so murderous? Nov 4, 2009
Why is American history so murderous. by November 9, 2009. (New Yorker)
American Revolutionist Nov 3, 2009
The sons of Podhoretz, metaphorically speaking, may find much of American history as remote from their concerns as the War of the Roses, but their universalist aspirations and ardor for global revolution stir some of the same passions in the American psyche that Paine once inflamed. The true idea of a great nation, is that which promotes and extends the principles of universal society, Paine wrote in his Letter to the Abbe Raynal, and eventually he came to favor exporting the French Revolution... (The American Conservative)
NASA probe hits moon's south pole looking for water Nov 1, 2009
Police avoided making arrests, which could have easily exceeded highs for any previous act of civil disobedience around climate issues in American history ... While debate still rages about Armstrong's words were on the moon, the moon landing of Apollo 11 remains one of the most indelible moments in recent American history. (Salon)
Journalists deserve subsidies as well Nov 1, 2009
For the first time in American history, we are nearing a point where we will no longer have more than minimal resources (relative to the nation's size) dedicated to reporting the news. The prospect that this "information age" could be characterized by unchecked spin and propaganda, where the best-financed voice almost always wins, and cynicism, ignorance and demoralization reach pandemic levels, is real. (Juneau Empire)
When there's something strange ... Nov 1, 2009
TLPresler wrote on Oct 30, 2009 10:07 AM:" I cannot confirm this as fact, but so many people have told me that at least a portion of Lodi was previously, so long ago, Native American burial land. When I was younger, a physician in Lodi who had a hobby and interest in researching very early area history always talked about how some of the community was built on Indian Burial Grounds. The doctor has since passed away, and I'm not sure what became of his formal research... However, still today, I... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Report: Karzai's brother gets CIA pay Nov 1, 2009
Secondly, it'll depend on the economy -- and just from American history, in the normal economic cycles, presidents who have their recessions at the beginning of their first term get reelected (Reagan, Clinton, the second Bush), and presidents who have them at the end of their first term don't (Carter, the first Bush). Obama will lose a lot of seats in next year's congressional election, but the economy should be on the upswing in 2012. (Salon)
LETTER: Some veterans don't get the same respect Oct 31, 2009
We served during a trifle and all but forgotten spot in American history known as the Cold War. I served on a Pershing 1A missile base in the then-Federal Republic of Germany. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Are the Tea Partiers good or bad for the GOP? Oct 30, 2009
is the author of "Nixonland: "The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America," and "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" -- the first two installments in a trilogy about the postwar conservative movement he is currently completing. is the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and the former White House correspondent for National Review. Byron is the author of the first book to trace the new political movement created by... (Salon)
What's in a Name? Oct 30, 2009
At an earlier point in American history, those names might have raised eyebrows, but not today. And the parents giving their babies those names may well be the descendants of Irish, Spanish, and Greek immigrants who didn't feel free to do the same for their own offspring. (Townhall.com)
Can You Hear Me Now, D.C.? Oct 30, 2009
I have parents "auditing" my 5th grade homeschool American History and Civics classes and approaching me with questions ... Since "social studies" has become the norm in schools instead of American History and politically correct versions of texts are the only offerings at librarys. (Townhall.com)
Pelosi's biggest one yet! 1,990 pages... Oct 30, 2009
Pelosi vs. the "Nazi Pelosi" bullhorn people - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com. Pelosi vs. the "Nazi Pelosi" bullhorn people. (The Drudge Report)
Lee Harvey Oswald Gets a Trial---In a Watertown Play Oct 30, 2009
Friday 30 October, 2009. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, the nation's 35th president, was fatally shot while traveling through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Tex. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Battlefields to get record cash For those who value American history, this week should be one for the record books. Oct 29, 2009
For those who value American history, this week should be one for the record books. Communities across the nation are about to benefit from the largest appropriation for Civil War battlefield preservation that Congress has ever parceled out. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Economic Freedom Fighters, Unite Oct 29, 2009
In the last few years, I have become personally dedicated to learning about early American history and our Constitution. I still consider myself a student. (Townhall.com)
Karzai Brother: Drug Lord, CIA Darling? Oct 29, 2009
They are also reknowned for some of the goofiest plots and major fiascos in American history. If you want to take a look at a fine example of their efficiency, take a look at the twin towers. (CBS News)
Once all-mighty dollar taking a backseat to euros, Chinese products Oct 29, 2009
The state of the dollar is not unique in recent American history. Remember when Japanese companies came across the Pacific and bought everything from Americas iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links to concession rights at Americas national parks. (The News-Press -- Business)
COLUMN: 'Good without God' seems to turn nothing into a bit of something to brag about Oct 29, 2009
Collatine wrote on Oct 28, 2009 8:28 AM:" Tpaine we dont murder people because its good for society? American history is rife with communal acts of murder, often based on race. I suppose THOSE murders were ok, because society thought so? Enlightenment philosophers like John Locke reasoned that people and actions could be reduced to mere chemical actions, and if the majority didnt like the chemical reactions in a certain group of people, all you had to do was to introduce new chemicals to achieve... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Experts Warn: Tax Hikes Would Undercut Economy Oct 29, 2009
The largest four-year revenue increase in American history took place between 2004 and 2007, after George W. Bush s tax cuts spurred revenue to rise by $785 billion. Once again, reduced tax rates created a virtual chain reaction of higher economic growth, more jobs, increased corporate profits, and, ultimately, more tax receipts, the authors opined. (Human Events Online)
Obama has Capitol Hill visit on busy agenda Wed. Oct 28, 2009
What is being foisted upon President Obama in print and protest is not new in American history, but has gotten more vicious during times of national distress and frustration. Such has occurred with Presidents Lincoln, Carter, Clinton, Hoover and Bush II.. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Utilities to benefit from stimulus dollars Oct 28, 2009
4 billion package announced by President Obama Tuesday that is being called the largest single energy grid modernization investment in American history. The funding will pay for about 40 percent of FP&L s $578 million Energy Smart Florida project that will advance implementation of the Smart Grid, including installing more than 2. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
Dallas Brass Concert Oct 28, 2009
The show, "American Musical Journey," incorporates a full complement of brass and percussion for a musical travelogue through American history, from the time of George Washington to the present day. The program's music has been selected from masters - Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Berlin, Sousa; from bands like the Tijuana Brass and Chicago; and styles from Dixieland, swing, Broadway, folk, patriotic, pop, and even hip-hop. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Democrats push green energy agenda Oct 28, 2009
Obama, meanwhile, unveiled what the White House called the largest energy grid modernization investment in American history. At a Florida solar energy center, the president announced $3. (CNN -- US)
American citizenship essay contest for high school students Oct 28, 2009
In an essay of no more than 750 words, students are asked to trace the enduring importance of this value throughout the American story by discussing: a founding document that reflects this value, a figure from American history who embodies this value, and examples of how one has and/or could put this value into practice. Essay entries are due by December 1. (Boxford Tri Town Transcript, MA)
Thomas N. Brown, historian steeped in Boston ethos, professor at UMass, 89 Oct 28, 2009
He was fascinated by American history and fascinated by immigrant history, said Dr. Brown s son Dominic of Acton. His wife, Mary Brown, a chef who ran a French-style restaurant in Watertown, died in 2002. (Boston Globe)
Jury Selection Begins in 1st Polygamist Sect Trial Oct 27, 2009
Raymond Jessop, 38, is set to stand trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch in West Texas and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody case in American history. At least 10 people in the jury pool clearly belonged to the Fundamentalist Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints. (Newsmax)
Mohammed case would put America on trial Oct 27, 2009
No judge in modern American history has faced such a challenge. The Mohammed trial would be a deep challenge to his lawyers as well. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Monopoly on power, profit Oct 27, 2009
Up and down the San Joaquin Valley this summer, amid some of the worst hard times in American history, residents opened their Pacific Gas ric bills to discover a shocking new reality: $800-a-month electricity charges -- double what they paid last summer. We now find ourselves saddled with the equivalent of two house payments. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Banks taking retail centers Oct 27, 2009
John T. Adams, a self-described lover of American history, envisioned retail destinations from bygone eras. Rachel Tobin Ramos A developer who loves American history envisioned retail destinations from bygone eras. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
