Category: History

Let’s be honest for a change

Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead? By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13   I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply  cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!” Where is  the prime minister? Where are all of the Zionist leaders? Where is the world  …

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Thinking like Shamir

It was Zionism itself that Israel buried this week. Let it go. By Bradley Burston, Jul.03, 2012 1:36 PM   It’s time to take a lesson from the successful. It’s time to begin thinking like Yitzhak Shamir. When he died this week, the first several people I spoke with, knowledgeable people who closely follow politics …

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Even facts now have a point of view

Thomas Jefferson, our least Christian president By Stephen Prothero, July 3 2012   During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello and the other on the cut-and-paste version of the Gospels known as the Jefferson Bible. …

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Uneasy patriot

Jackie Robinson on the 4th: The Prophet and the Flag By Michael G. Long, 07/05/2012 10:42 am   One of the quiet but powerful engines that drove Jackie Robinson’s passion for racial integration both on and beyond the baseball diamond was a faith long nurtured in the black church — a prophetic faith that extolled …

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Love requires a response

Reborn on the 4th of July By Logan Mehl-Laituri, 07/04/2012  8:18 am   Today marks my sixth rebirthday. In 2006, I was baptized and became a Christian in Honolulu, Hawaii. One week later, I would be told that my actions, as an active duty soldier facing a second deployment to Iraq, aided the enemies of …

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Whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate

Francis Scott Key on trial By Jefferson Morley, Wednesday, Jul  4, 2012 06:30 AM CDT   In the final two days of U.S. v. Reuben Crandall, on April 25 and 26, 1836, Washington’s district attorney, Francis Scott Key, and defense attorney Richard Coxe addressed the jurors for the last time. The courtroom in City Hall …

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War’s a nasty thing

Anniversary of the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 3 July 2012   And what lessons we have to learn from this most ironic of sea battles, in which the British sank a large part of the French fleet during World War II, as part of the struggle for the liberation of France.  …

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