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“Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” With that one simple sentence President Franklin D. Roosevelt thrust the United States in to World War II. Seventy years ago today the Japanese Navy conducted a successful airstrike on the American fleet and air stations at Pearl Harbor and the Hawai…
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Barack Hussein Obama was elected by the winds of change which swept across the United States like a Kansas twister. We were tired of 8 years of the Bush Administrations and wanted something new, so…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
…eep them there. But as a nation, we’ve always come together, through our government, to help create the conditions where both workers and businesses can succeed. (Applause.) And historically, that hasn’t been a partisan idea. Franklin Roosevelt worked with Democrats and Republicans to give veterans of World War II — including my grandfather, Stanley Dunham — the chance to go to college on the G.I. Bill. It was a Republican President, …
…rabs our undivided attention for the Darwin motive of survival. Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney can be viewed through the Truman prism. Harry S Truman President Harry S Truman, honorable, honest, not a close friend, a confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman kept in the dark about the atomic bomb, “Truman, who had not known of it beforehand, was briefed on the ultra secret Manhattan Project by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson on the day Rooseve…
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Ben Franklin 1776 Welcome to 2010 everyone, the year of the second American Revolution. This will be the year “we the people” take our country back. Sounds good doesn’t it. Sounding “good” is one thing, making it happen is another? The unhappiness in this country is on the rise; the slow rate of recovery of the economy; record setting unemplo…
… the humanities”), a familiarity with college protests comes to mind: The ‘60s Jerry Rubin mantra ”Never trust anyone over 30,” and the ‘70s “Question Authority” (ascribed to Timothy Leary, although Benjamin Franklin is quoted: “it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority”). Is it possible that after a long return trip from China, Gates flashed back to his student advocacy sentiments? What …
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