Category: History

Happy birthday!

The bible that even atheists worship The Independent Wednesday, 22 December 2010 King James I of England has not always had a good press. His disdain for parliament, his dodgy favourites, the extravagance of his court and his pro-Spanish foreign policy did not do him any credit. He was the founder of that unhappy line …

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David Barton

The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the new mayor’s husband) for a rah-rah rally/revival to “energize and educate” Tea Party Republicans who recently routed …

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Fascism disguised

DISGUISED FASCISM SEEN AS A MENACE Prof. Luccock Warns That It Will Bear the Misleading Label ‘Americanism’ … The New York Times, 12 September 1938, page 15, re. a sermon preached the day before (9/11 — ironic, n’est pas?)… … When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; …

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Vive la Révolution!

Friday, March 30, 1906 … Three days ago a neighbor brought the celebrated Russian revolutionist, Schaykoffsky, to call upon me.  He is grizzled, and shows age — as to exteriors — but he has a Vesuvius, inside, which is a strong and active volcano yet.  He is so full of belief in the ultimate and …

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Breaking news

Monday, March 12, 1906 Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros — Men, women and children — In a crater bowl near Jolo in the Philippines — Our troops commanded by General Wood — Contrasts this “battle” with various other details of our military history — The newspapers’ attitude toward the announcements …

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Professor Beck

From the conclusion of Dana Milbank’s “Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I’m just saying.)” Sunday, October 3, 2010 … The Apollo Alliance, funded by Soros, wrote Obama’s stimulus bill! Apollo’s Jeff Jones, along with Obama friend Ayers, “came right from SDS,” which is “code language for Marxism,” and formed the Weather …

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People of the book

The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site was fueled by pundits on the right, who …

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