All Entries in the "History" Category
Movie Review: The Lincoln Movie is Propaganda
BY: DAVI BARKER, EXAMINER.COM, NOVEMBER 17, 2012 With only a limited theatrical release last week, Steven Spielberg’s latest work of imaginative fiction is scheduled for wide release today. I know Hollywood plays fast and loose with history, but when they go out of their way to get the wallpaper in Lincoln’s office exactly right, and use a recording [...]
Oldest Stone Spear Tips Found: Came About 200,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
By Keerthi Chandrashekar, Latinospost.com Nov 15, 2012 New evidence from a rece,y-published scientific study indicates that humans started crafting stone-tipped weapons 200,000 years earlier than previously believed. A team of scientists that included researchers from Arizona State University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cape Town have uncovered signs of hafting, or the [...]
Stop the War on May Day!
By Roderick T. Long Cross posted here from Bleeding Heart Libertarians. I strongly disagree with the suggestion by Jason, Ilya, and others to rename May Day “Victims of Communism” Day. The fact that Communist regimes have attempted to co-opt May Day is no reason to imitate them in a second co-opting attempt. May Day not only originally was, [...]
Why the Republican Party Elected Lincoln
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo It is occasionally possible to see through the fog of mysticism, superstition, lies, and the romantic, happy-faced, floating butterfly vision of Abraham Lincoln that has been created by American court historians over the past century. One place to begin is the gem of a book by Pulitzer prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald [...]
The Dream of the 1890s: Why Old Mutualism Is Making a New Comeback
MAR 13 2012, 11:30 AM ET The values of this generation of independent-minded workers aren’t wild and new. Instead, they represent a return to the values we abandoned at the height of the industrial revolution. Wikimedia Commons photo of Portland in 1890. The ’90s are making a comeback. The 1890s, that is. That was the [...]
WAR IS A RACKET – Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC, Retired
Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC, Retired CHAPTER ONE WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in [...]
