All Entries Tagged With: "history"
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 [...]
Beware Friday the 13th
by Ron Holland Welcome to Friday the 13th. You may not know why Friday the 13th is considered such an unlucky day, but it’s worth learning about for anyone who’s concerned about protecting his assets, especially from high taxes and confiscation. While Obama might be defeated in 2012 and a GOP win would certainly be a [...]
When The Bread and Circuses Are Gone In America
Richard Penney January 3, 2012 Many Americans simply do not want to face reality. America is going broke. America has some some fundamental problems that have resulted in serious negative consequences to the people who live here. For some reason, there are far too many people who refuse to acknowledge these major problems exist. Furthermore, those [...]
Judge Napolitano: The Abraham Lincoln Myth – Was Lincoln America’s First Tyrannical Dictator?
Freedom Watch. Judge Napolitano and guests talk about the Lincoln Myth. Ron Paul and other libertarians have been demonized for telling the truth about the Lincoln administration.
