Archive for April, 2012
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A Return to Normalcy
Posted on April 30, 2012
In the aftermath of World War I, the Palmer Raids, a failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren...
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It Was a Thousand Against Two
Posted on April 30, 2012
“The battle scene was tense. The fighting was fierce. And of course we were all scared. It was a thousand against two. And somehow, we were able to...
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WHCD
Posted on April 29, 2012
We were late to the one party that we were invited to over the weekend, thanks to a Presidential motorcade that kept us waiting for 20 minutes and screwed...
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Numbers Beating Ideas These Days
Posted on April 27, 2012
“Feel like a stranger/A stranger in this land/I feel like a number/I’m not a number/I’m not a number/Dammit I’m a man/I said I’m a man.” Bob Seger...
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Changing CSRS Into FERS
Posted on April 26, 2012
In the mid-1980’s, Social Security was going broke, as was the Federal government. And the retirement program for all Federal employees was in the cross-hairs of voters who thought...
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