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Posted: Thursday, February 9th, 2012
A mere 17 miles separate Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial, but their stories couldn't be farther apart. Mount Rushmore took 14 years to complete at a cost of $1 million dollars, of which 85 percent was funded by the government. Crazy Horse is still being sculpted after 60 years. More importantly, the Crazy Horse monument is being built with private donations and accepts no federal funds.
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Posted: Friday, January 6th, 2012
"Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"
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Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Apparently U.S. students are unfamiliar with the famous paraphrased aphorism, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." That's because a new report shows that students anywhere from high school to fourth grade are solely lacking in their knowledge of American history. Results from the 2010 gold standard of testing, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 13 percent of the nation's high school seniors showed proficiency in their knowledge of American history, and only 18 percent of eighth grades and 22 percent of fourth graders scoring as well.
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Posted: Monday, December 12th, 2011
Forty-nine years ago, the United States and the USSR stood on the brink of a full-scale nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was coming to a head. After intelligence analysts reviewing surveillance photographs spotted medium-range missile sites being constructed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy convened a group of his closest advisers at the White House on Oct. 16, 1962 to discuss a response...
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Posted: Monday, November 14th, 2011
"Now, what is this action - which is very technical - what does it mean for you? Let me lay to rest the bugaboo of what is called devaluation. If you want to buy a foreign car or take a trip abroad, market conditions may cause your dollar to buy slightly less… The effect of this action, in other words, will be to stabilize the dollar." - Richard Nixon
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Posted: Friday, November 4th, 2011
"One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose..."
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Posted: Sunday, October 16th, 2011
"The Son of one of the Boston Tea Party 'Indians,' he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker of the House. At age 32, he was appointed as the youngest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he served 34 years and helped establish the illegality of the slave trade in the Amistad case."
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Posted: Thursday, September 29th, 2011
"Coin clipping has been resorted to many times since the time of the Romans, both by public and private con artists, prompting mints to mill the edges of gold and silver coinage to make clipping easily detectable."
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Posted: Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
"Encouraged by success, Dix went on the road with her message of compassion for the mentally ill. She traveled from New England to Louisiana and back in a three-year, thirty-thousand-mile pilgrimage. She became known for writing memoranda to enlighten, embarrass, and compel legislators into doing the right thing for the mentally ill."
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Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"Abigail Smith became Abigail Adams not long after her 19th birthday, and together she and John Adams welcomed their first child into the world a few days short of nine months later. A mother before 20, Abigail managed the household finances and farm along with her husband while he also practiced law in Boston."
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Posted: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
"By his own count, Bernard Nathanson, M.D., was responsible for some 75,000 abortions -- without a twinge of conscience intervening. Not back then. Not when he picketed a New York City hospital in his campaign for the legalization of abortion in New York state. Preaching what he practiced, Dr. Nathanson became a tireless spokesman for NARAL, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws."
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Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
"The future general was born in 1728 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, a small town bordering on the present city of Manchester, the state's largest municipality. The entire state was rural, and battles with Indian tribes were not uncommon at a time when the settled East resembled in many ways the Wild West. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Manchester, which was then the township of Derryfield."
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Posted: Saturday, July 30th, 2011
"In extremis, what will happen is that all the losses will be foisted onto the Federal Reserve. The Fed holds something on the order of $1.6 trillion in debt issued by the Treasury of the United States. By having the Federal Reserve purchase blocks of Treasury debt and defaulting on these non-investor-held securities, the United States can postpone a default against real investors essentially forever."
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Posted: Friday, July 22nd, 2011
"I trust and pray that each of us will reacquaint ourselves with the principles upon which the Declaration of Independence was written, and upon which the United States of America was founded. And while we are doing that, let's be sure we are passing these principles on to our children and grandchildren, because without their dedication and commitment to liberty, there will be no America!"
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
"Well, the answer depends upon what "we" means. Christian missionaries, independent of our government, very quietly go all over the world bringing a message of peace, very practical help in the form of private schools and free clinics, and an expression of love. That works, but not government by government, people by people, or region by region. Is there a solution to the problems of the Turks and Kurds? No, but there is a solution to the problem of every human soul, and no government can provide it. "
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Posted: Saturday, July 16th, 2011
"It is sheer sophistry for American "elites" to maintain that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are a genuine obstacle to peace in the Middle East. To even assert such nonsense is to ignore three thousand five hundred years of history. Neither is "Palestinian pathos" the explanation for the contemporary blood libel that attempts to legitimize Arab claims to the West Bank at the expense of Jewish settlements."
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Posted: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
 "Schoolchildren learn of the crucial and timely role played by France in the American victory over King George III's redcoats. The personification of the invaluable Gallic assistance to the American cause of liberty is none other than the Marquis de Lafayette."
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
"Let us follow the example of Jefferson and elevate Napoleo n to the pantheon of monsters where he belongs."
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Posted: Friday, June 17th, 2011
"Murphy, the ranking officer (previous fighting had decimated the officer ranks), immediately orders his men to fall back. He remains forward on the command post telephone directing artillery fire against the enemy. When an officer on the other line asks how close the advancing enemy is to Murphy's position. Murphy replies, 'If you just hold the phone a minute, I'll let you talk to one of the bastards.'"
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Posted: Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
"It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their estimate of Clinton's presidency. But he earned his disdain fair and square, and a brief reminder of his abuses is in order."
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Posted: Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
"Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that found Standard Oil guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. As punishment, the world's largest and most successful oil company was broken into 34 pieces."
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Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
"As The New American reported, senior al-Qaeda leaders were among the first to openly back the rebellion in Libya. The U.S. government, NATO, and the United Nations came in later, providing air support and weapons to the militants. Some of the leaders of the uprising are in fact associated with al-Qaeda by their own admission. The U.S. government admits it, too."
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Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
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Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
"And today, few students are taught Logic, or how to think rationally. Left-wing American intellectuals have swallowed the poison pill of Marxist socialism and think nothing of trashing Christianity, the religion upon which this great nation was built."
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
"The loss of the bookstore will  mean more than lost opportunities to sell books, however. For the last two centuries and more, bookstores and bookstalls have been centers for the dissemination of culture and ideas. The merging of the bookstore and the coffee shop brought two complementary cultural spaces together. Books are about ideas, and bookstores offer a rare context for meeting other people interested in ideas."
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
"Like the grea t tsunamis that have humbled empires in earlier ages, will this one forever change the world as our generation has known it?"
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
"Abra ham Lincoln jailed newspapermen whose comments on the Civil War were not to his liking.
In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, effectively curtailing employers' freedom to talk with their own employees about their company's financial condition and the affordability of wages and benefits."
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
"The Chicago World Fair of 19 uring process of technology and industry instead of the stagnancy of the present. The World Fair (World's Fair or Universal Exposition) is a name given to many grand public exhibitions held internationally. They encourage cultural exchange and showcase industrial and technological innovation."
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Posted: Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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Posted: Monday, January 9th, 2012
"Hoover and his men fought valiantly -and sometimes almost alone -against this massive Red infiltration, the cover-up and the hazards these presented. The chart above, prepared at Hoover's direction at the time of the Alger Hiss case, indicates some of the innumerable reports the FBI submitted to U.S. agencies in the period 1945-48 about the extent and nature of the penetration. While these reports in many cases were disparaged or ignored, they did lead in time to the gradual ouster of some of more flagrant comrades from official payrolls. Hoover and Co. thus saved the nation from even greater perils than those that in fact befell it."
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Posted: Friday, January 6th, 2012
"How might history have played itself out with those first explorers succeeded is hard to guess. Columbus came with the banner of the Roman Catholic Church and the queen of Spain. Those that followed him streamed into the New World in search of gold determined to conquer the indigenous population. Considering the Norsemen's fascination with war for war's sake, it is doubtful the end result would have been much different; however, the truth is, we will really never know."
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Posted: Friday, January 6th, 2012
"Cato Institute senior fellow Jim Powell wrote in Forbes magazine about the inevitable and predictable decline of rich nations that debauched their currencies in order to pay their bills. Powell said that politicians' urge to promise and then to spend is almost overwhelming, calling it "a visceral urge to spend money they don't have. They can't control themselves. They'll weasel their way around any efforts to put the lid on the cookie jar."
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Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
In the winter of 1813, the war with the British was not going well for the Americans. An alliance of British troops and Indians, led by the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh, had soundly defeated poorly led and inadequately trained Americans at every turn. British warships patrolled Lake Erie and harassed American interests in Pennsylvania and the Ohio Territory...
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Posted: Thursday, November 17th, 2011
"Whether Molly Pitcher is the name of one woman or many is of little matter. In fact, it is fitting that the name probably serves as a composite of many women who fought and died alongside their husbands. Unlike modern wars with volunteer armies going off to distant places, Molly and her husband were defending their homeland and their way of life. As such, we should join General Washington in saluting these women by the name he gave Mary Hays - 'Sergeant Molly.'"
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Posted: Monday, November 7th, 2011
"In 'The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football,' journalist John J. Miller examines the fascinating early history of college football. He carefully situates his story in the context of the professionalization and commercialization of sports, the influence of "muscular Christianity," and changing views of medicine, nutrition, and physical fitness."
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Posted: Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
"As one who has written on the Progressive movement that began in the late 1800s and still continues today, I am struck by the way that people have institutionalized the "reforms" and creations of Progressives to the point where they become something even beyond articles of faith."
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Posted: Saturday, October 8th, 2011
"In 1818, a salt well suddenly began to fill with oil, making it the first well to produce crude oil in America. People had known about such oil seeps in western Pennsylvania for centuries. Native Americans, as far back as 1410, had been harvesting oil for medicinal purposes by digging small pits around active seeps and lining them with wood."
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Posted: Monday, September 26th, 2011
"The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was."
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Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"Wilson advocated what later became known as Keynesian economics. Keynesian economics is derived from the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes in the 20th century, who, during Wilson's presidency and WWI, was considered a brilliant economist in the British Treasury. Keynesian economics is the model of choice by progressive Democrats and Republicans alike; including President Barack Obama."
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Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"Few Americans are aware of how desperate were the circumstances and conditions in Korea, and how near success the communists came. When North Korea invaded, neither South Korea nor the U.S. was prepared for war. On the contrary, the U.S. had downgraded and demobilized the military severely after WWII, seeking to cut costs and pay the war debt."
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Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
"The author's arguably simplistic explanation of the dichotomy that existed between Jackson the moralist and Jackson the slave-owner was that he was '. . .no defender of slavery. He accepted it as the mysterious providence of God and worked to lift the existence of the slaves within his sphere of influence.'"
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Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
"Charitable givers and politicians both pursue their self-interest, but the politician's self-interest includes winning votes. That means, if possible, channeling subsidies to voting groups to win reelection at the expense of taxpayers in general. Rockefeller's gifts to Tuskegee did not cost anyone but him any money. FDR's subsidy to silver miners, by contrast, cost millions of taxpayers small amounts of tax revenue."
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Posted: Thursday, July 28th, 2011
"It is not easy to understand the hostility toward a system that has made possible the greatest explosion in wealth and living standards in human history, and which has done more to eradicate poverty than all the rock stars and government transfer programs put together. (Ludwig von Mises takes a crack at it in The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.) People seem almost eager to believe the most transparently false claims about the market. Commerce is viewed with suspicion. We treat merchants with a disdain we would never show the TSA. The critical role of the entrepreneur is not understood at all."
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
"From the start, Americans have been divided between the visions and values of Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. That intellectual and political debate continues undiminished today. In fact, during a recent radio interview, the host asked me out of the blue, "Whose side are you on, Hamilton's or Jefferson's?"
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
"Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds government and society. And so, every time we object to a thing being done by government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all."
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Posted: Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
 "One can hardly call this a crusade for freedom. Liberation for the white people of German-occupied Europe, certainly. But not for the peoples of Africa and Asia. However, in the end, the war did set in motion forces that would eventually spell the end of colonialism. The collapse of the British Empire, which Winston Churchill had vowed to defend at all costs, opened the way to worldwide decolonization."
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Posted: Friday, June 24th, 2011
"Back in 1967, during the Johnson administration, there was a well-organized campaign by the liberal establishment to saddle the American people with subsidized, "public" television."
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Posted: Monday, June 20th, 2011
"Theoretically, there are no obstacles to birth control in Russia. It is accepted … on the grounds of health and human right…. [W]e could well take example from Russia, where there are no legal restrictions, no religious condemnation, and where birth control instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the government."
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Posted: Monday, June 6th, 2011
"Pocahontas is the tale of a heroine, a child who exhibited moral courage and independence, a child who went against everything she'd been taught all her life in favor of the convictions of her own mind, thus proving that one's race does not have to determine one's culture or destiny."
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Posted: Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
"All pilots know this is an incredibly important week in aviation history. Leading the list was Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic."
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Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
"The longest major strike in American history had finally come to an end, but its viciousness would scar thousands of lives for more than three decades."
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Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
"Although quite intelligent, due to the fact that Helen could neither speak nor hear she had developmental difficulties. Communication was nearly impossible. By the time Helen was seven, she was so unmanageable that her family had just about given up hope. On February 3, 1887, Helen's father wrote a letter to Alexander Graham Bell, who eleven years earlier had also the invented the telephone, thanking the inventor for taking an interest in his little girl. By May of 1888 Helen's family and Bell were exchanging many letters."
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Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
"'Someone…..has stolen my train,'" William Fuller, conductor on the General said in amazement as the train was pulling away from the Big Shanty train depot. Men of the Western and Atlantic railroad almost immediately began the chase"
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Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
In other words, although modern techniques give rulers and elites  enormous powers that their predecessors did not have, they are still limited in what they can do effectively by the nature of knowledge and the limits of the tools and techniques at their disposal.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
"World War I stands as a  memorial to human vanity and over-confidence, a monument to statism-gone-mad. At just the moment when the progressives, whether they were the political spawn of Roosevelt and company, the scientific aristocracy, or the religious liberals who cloaked modernity in a thin Christian veneer, thought they had everything figured out, along came a young Serbian man in Sarajevo, who, with a gunshot, sent the entire world to war."
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Posted: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
"Nobod y knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies….
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow." - Winston Churchill
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
"Who can cure this ignorance? Surely not the members of academia or the media. They in fact are busy schooling the nation in accepting the totalitarian State. The pulpits in our nation once instructed the people in the purpose, function, and limitations of the State through yearly election and artillery sermons. These sermons were routinely preached for over 100 years in our nation. Clergymen understood that God's Word addressed all matters of life, including the matters of civil government."
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