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  • Obama and the Brandenburg gate

    As a Berliner who was there when Obama spoke in Berlin I would like to correct only a detail: It was actually not the Brandenburg Gate which the Obama campaign used as a backdrop for their candidate's speech. True, they intended to use it. But in a long discussion process it was eventually refused by the German authorities. What Obama ...
    Posted to Foreigners by BodoMrozek on September 22, 2009

  • This film suggests we had terrorists and hijackers B4 9/11?

    Sad but true. Americans and the world have been ''taken for a ride'' by paranoid, militaristic, foolish Nation State Governments and our political ''leaders'' including the latest, Barack Obama, who continue to insist on the necessity of continued warfare against ''Terrorism'' when this film about the German Baader Meinhoff Complex proves and ...
    Posted to Movies by MichaelBernard4 on August 23, 2009

  • 'history'

    http://www.lrb.co.uk/web/14/11/2008/zize01_.html
    Posted to Fighting Words by anotherslatereader on November 24, 2008

  • BHO to FDR

    I hope that BHO has a 1st 100 day that are as nation & world changing [for the better] as FDR's were & that BHO has a successful term, maybe 2 terms. I see the melt-down as the start of the mother of all depressions, long lasting depressions. Yes, I'm afraid. BHO can't be a clone of FDR & this situation is different than the ...
    Posted to History Lesson by larry278 on October 25, 2008

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • What is Obama's History

    I found out for myself and posted it at http://obamascrapbook.com. Who were his parents and grandparents? When and where was he born? Where did he attend school? Who is this guy? Find out at http://obamascrapbook.com. I dare you.
    Posted to History Lesson by Peacepuppy on August 19, 2008

  • Amazing that Americans Have This Discussion

    Having studied American civics in grade school and high school, and having my doubts that Bush Cheney or anyone else in our current White House similarly learned about American history, traditions, institutions and law, it continually amazes me that this Bush Cheney Presidency has run riot so egregiously. Congress? Lay down. The Courts? Lay ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Who pulls the trigger? You?

    Thanks Prudie for the insigh into you twisted little mind. I really do mean little too. I thought I had seen it all untill a few minutes ago then............Bam, some low grade internet advice hack has to weight in on the matter of slandering a great democratic candidate and former First Lady of The United States of America. Man the 90's sure ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by byebyeprudence on June 12, 2008
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