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• The Origin Of Christmas: From The Catholic Encyclopedia Pt. 2

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 133
  Note to readers of The Washington Review: Every year we post information regarding the history and origins of Christmas and other holidays that pertain to Christ Jesus and Christianity. It is our feverent hopes that our readers will intelligently process this information and use accordingly for their own personal ...
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• The Origin Of Christmas: From The Catholic Encyclopedia

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 133
  Note to readers of The Washington Review: Every year we post information regarding the history and origins of Christmas and other holidays that pertain to Christ Jesus and Christianity. It is our feverent hopes that our readers will intelligently process this information and use accordingly for their own personal ...
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• Why Christmas Sucks for So Many Christians This Year

  
  One Utah — Authority: 134
  This Christmas Day is the worst in memory for more living Americans than heretofore. Here’s why, and here’s how we can make next Christmas a better one.Naturally, Bush made it worse. Here’s hoping the righteous Americans who voted for Reagan, Bush or McCain will take pause in the Yuletide season, and put down ...
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• There Ain’t No Such Thing As a Free Lumpectomy

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  This week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared that his chamber’s health care bill “demands for the first time in American history that good health will not depend on great wealth.” Reid said the legislation “acknowledges, finally, that health care is a fundamental right—a human right—and not just a ...
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• Criminalizing Christmas Cookies, Candy Canes, and Crèches

  
  OrthodoxNet.com Blog — Authority: 475
  American Thinker | by Jeannie DeAngelis | Dec. 24, 2009This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. Regardless of personal Christmas traditions, most Americans agree that the Nativity visually represents ...
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• Something to Think About

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 445
  I don’t know where you stand on Nat Hentoff, but he reminds me of what Gore Vidal has been saying about the Obama Administration: John W. Whitehead: When Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator in 2005, he introduced a bill to limit the Patriot Act. Now that he is president, he has endorsed the Patriot Act as is. ...
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• Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: An American Civil War Tradition Examined

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 115
   A guest blogger at Kevin Levins Civil War Memory, Michael Schaffner has written a brilliant post that examines the evidence for the Angel of Maryes Heights legend, one of the most celebrated examples of charity to fallen foes in American history.  Go there now and read it .   The national need for ...
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• Happy Holidays! The Smithsonian is Closed on Christmas Day

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 426
  Decked out for the holidays, the Smithsonian Castle grounds are festive . Photograph by Eric Long Twas the Night Before Christmas and here on the Mall, Not a creature is stirring in the museum’s vast halls Full of objects and trinkets selected with care By curators hoping you’d all soon be there. Alas and ...
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• REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON SENATE PASSAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 133
  REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON SENATE PASSAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM   State Dining Room     8:47 A.M. EST          THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  In a historic vote that took place this morning members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark ...
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• New to the Collection: The Ancient Order of Good Fellows

  
  National Heritage Museum — Authority: 116
  Recently, the National Heritage Museum acquired a mahogany box, which was found in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Topped with a brass handle, the box has gold painted letters on the front reading, “Buena Vista Lodge / No. 16, A.O. of G.F. / Instituted Feby. 19th, 1848.”  Identifying the group that originally ...
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• Talking American History with Joseph Ellis

  
  Open Culture — Authority: 597
  Let me quickly call your attention to an interview with Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian, who most recently published American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic . In this casual, wide-ranging conversation (listen below or here ) with Russ Roberts, ...
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• Dont Criticize What We Wore in the 1970s

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 445
  Larry Brown / Jack Ramsey / Lanny Wilkens Do you think these men should be ashamed of how they look? No. Neither do I. It’s tempting to think that we can go back and look at the 1970s and laugh at how people looked. I don’t see it. I lived through those years. Those were the years when I was in my twenties ...
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• A Few Questions For Sally McMillen

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 523
  Anne Zaccardelli, Library and Online Sales Assistant Sally G. McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department chair at Davidson College. Her newest book, now out in paperback, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement illuminates a major turning point in American ...
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• In Memoriam, Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

  
  The Devoted Intellect — Authority: 125
  When the American History edition of the Intellectual Devotional was released in 2007, the entry on Michael Jackson included a brief parenthesis, “(1958-).” Now, sadly, the second part of that time line has been filled in. Jackson died on June 25 of this year, at the age of 50. The last years of his life were ...
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• 6 in 10 for 3

  
  dcat — Authority: 118
  Bob Ryan reminds us all that the decade now concluding has been a damned fine one for Boston sports . Three championships for the Patriots, two for the Red Sox , and one for the Celtics is a good run. Not many cities have won six titles in a decade, never mind having three teams win rings in an (admittedly ...
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• Senate health bill vote: 8AM Christmas Eve

  
  Haas414 — Authority: 466
  So sez TPM: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just triggered a sigh of relief among the hallowed population of members, staffers and reporters on Capitol Hill. “I ask unanimous consent that all post cloture time be expired at 8 am Thursday,” Reid said. That may sound like gobbledeegook, but in Senate-ese, ...
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• The History Channel Gets it Wrong: “Aftershock: Beyond The Civil War”

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 111
  I got a chance tonight to catch a re-airing of the History Channel’s Aftershock: Beyond The Civil War . Though I enjoyed the documentary and as far as I can tell it did an excellent job establishing the general mood and conditions of the South and the state of continued violence that ravaged blacks, whites, and ...
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• President Obama Signs The Human Rights Enforcement Act Of 2009 Into Law

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 133
  President Barack Obama signed the following into law: S. 1472, the “Human Rights Enforcement Act of 2009,” which requires establishment of a section within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice to enforce human rights laws; and makes amendments to Federal criminal and immigration laws pertaining to ...
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• Health Care Reform : Framing the Issue

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 506
  FDR signs the Social Security Act. Photo from Felton M. Johnston Collection / University of Mississippi Libraries.Historical thumbnail:Insurance reform and social securityBy Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / December 22, 2009 For the past few weeks Americans who consider themselves leftists have been arguing among ...
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• Pre-Holiday Links

  
  dcat — Authority: 118
  Super-duper pre-holiday quick hits from things that have caught my eye of late: Im very much interested in reading John Milton Coopers massive new biography of Woodrow Wilson . If you want to get stuff you almost always have to pay for it . Taxes are not a form of creeping socialism. They are a sign of a ...
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