History

A Holocaust Survivor Warned Us About Blindly Supporting the War on COVID 1
- History
- March 10, 2022
Vera Sharav was three and a half years old when her family was chased from their Romanian home in 1940. She was herded to a concentration camp with her parents, and her father soon died of typhus. To save her daughter’s life, Vera’s mother claimed her daughter was an orphan and sent her away. “I
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Seeing Through the Russia-Ukraine Propaganda 0
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- March 9, 2022
“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth.” George Washington wrote that about war in a letter in 1785, and unfortunately, 200 plus years later, we have yet to see this wish (that so many have fervently joined him in) come to pass. War is a gruesome, banal, horrific
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GOP ‘Gerrymandering’ is ‘Racist’—Obama-mandering is Just Politics 0
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- February 24, 2022
The term “gerrymander” derives from Elbridge Gerry, a Founding Father and vice president who, as governor of Massachusetts, approved an oddly drawn state senate district to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party over the Federalist Party. Both parties do it. Both parties complain when the other party does it to them. Consider recent GOP “gerrymandering” efforts. Former
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MLK Day: Equal Rights Versus Equal Results 0
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- January 20, 2022
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it becomes necessary to again remind us all of the distinction between equal rights, deserved by all, and equal results, deserve by none. Unfortunately, King also failed to make the distinction. In 1968, King said: At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any
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Biden’s Full Plate—Ukraine, Taiwan, Tehran 0
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- December 10, 2021
One day after warning Russian President Vladimir Putin he would face “severe” economic sanctions, “like ones he’s never seen,” should Russia invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden assured Americans that sending U.S. combat troops to Ukraine is “not on the table.” America is not going to fight Russia over Ukraine. “The idea that the United States
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The Supreme Court Row over 0
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- December 3, 2021
The state of Mississippi argued for its right to set its own abortion laws before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a case that has the potential to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. At issue is the state’s appeal of a lower court’s decision to overturn its statute limiting
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