Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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The Real Scandal
Posted on June 17, 2011
I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal. His point was that the real scandal wasn’t...
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Golf Summit
Posted on June 16, 2011
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit. Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to...
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Collapse of Cold War Consensus
Posted on June 15, 2011
It took awhile, but the Cold War consensus is finally shattering. The Cold War consensus centered around a basic proposition: America was going to both pay and provide the military...
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Gerry Returns
Posted on June 13, 2011
When Elbridge Gerry presided over Massachusetts as its governor in 1812, he signed into a law a redistricting plan that helped benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. One district was said to...
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Sand Castles
Posted on June 10, 2011
A couple of months ago, I went to the beach with my son and together we built a sand castle. It was an impressive effort, with all the turrets and...
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