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• Harry Reid Forgets Democrats’ History

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 135
  In light of Senator Harry Reid implying that the Republican party defended slavery, I’m republishing my review of Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past , by Bruce Bartlett: “[V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat.” On December 5, 2002, ...
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• Obama Follows In The Footsteps Of FDR

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 133
  My latest post on Big Government reports on a recent study on stimulus spending, and ties its findings to the methods of Democratic hero FDR: …Barack Obama has broken many campaign promises since taking office, but when it comes to the comparisons to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saddled on him by his adorning ...
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• The War on Terrorism – an American Disaster!

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Wikipedia describes the war on terrorism this way: The War on Terrorism or War on Terror is the common term for what the George W. Bush administration perceived or presented as the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, Islamic militants and regimes that supported them, and ...
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• The Federal Bureaucracy-Plutocracy

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 621
  According to an analysis of federal payroll data by USA Today , the federal bureaucracy has flourished during the current recession. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months—and that’s before overtime pay and ...
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• In Search Of Presidential Leadership

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  We’ve come through a generation where we have really denied the existence of a common good or a public purpose. And I think we’ve recognized that that path leads to collapse, the collapse that we’ve seen.James GalbraithWashingtonPresidency Lain Under SiegeWe cannot recall any recent presidency that has been laid ...
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• Pearl Harbor

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 551
  American Minute By Bill Federer “DECEMBER 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Thus spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt following the attack on Pearl Harbor by over 350 Japanese ...
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• A day that will live in infamy…

  
  The Real Gun Guys — Authority: 119
  Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with ...
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• 7 December 1941

  
  An Ol' Broad's Ramblings — Authority: 514
  Back when Americans stood strong against her enemies. Unlike now, with an apologist and groveler, in the White House.
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• December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 486
  Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that ...
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• Pearl Harbor 68 Years Ago Today - Attack Details; Roosevelt "Day of Infamy" Speech - Videos

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 573
  Today is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pear Harbor, December 7, 1941. The attack drew the United States into World War II. The United States suffered 2,402 killed, and 1,282 wounded. Until September 11, 2001, Pearl Harbor was the single worst enemy attack on U.S. soil in American History (not ...
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• Remembering Pearl Harbor

  
  President's Blog — Authority: 416
  Before Afghanistan.  Before "shock and awe" in Baghdad.  Before September 11.  Before Oklahoma City.  Before the fall of the Berlin Wall.   Before the fall of Saigon.  Before the assassinations and riots of the 1960s.  Before Vietnam.  Before Korea.   Before Israel became a state.  When Hitler and Nazism ...
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• Today is the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 512
  68 years ago today our nation suffered an attack that then President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to as “A date which will live in infamy”. The attack propelled a reticent America into the Second World War, a conflict that started two years prior and would continue for another four years. The attack was aimed at ...
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• "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"

  
  SUNLIT UPLANDS — Authority: 128
  S ixty-eight years ago this week, the First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked American military installations and our fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 2,400 Americans and brought America’s entry into World War II. The next day President Roosevelt addressed a Joint ...
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• Afghanistan-Pakistan: Video & Transcript of Obama Speech (1 December)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 591
  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan — the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my administration will ...
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• 2009/12/1

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 484
  When Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for his fourth term as president, did he and his doctor conceal the fact that he had elevated blood pressure, congestive heart failure and terminal cancer? It appears so. Even with health reform, access to care to get worse, not better : “The American Medical Association estimates ...
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• Churchill – Hitler – and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World: Patrick J. Buchanan

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Churchill – Hitler – and “The Unnecessary War” How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Patrick J. Buchanan I give this book an excellent rating, I’ve been over and over this stuff in my personal reading and I still found the book to be thought provoking and enjoying to read ...
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• Fascism in America?

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  The Neocons Abors Socialism – But Do They Feel the Same about Fascism? “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism–ownership of ...
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• Old Photos: Presidential Thanksgiving

  
  Kansas City with the Russian Accent — Authority: 118
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt (C), ducking as the Thanksgiving turkey takes the throne. Photographer:Thomas D. Mcavoy. © Time Inc President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family, smiling and laughing during Thanksgiving dinner. Photographer:Thomas D. Mcavoy. © Time Inc Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt w. his ...
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• History of Black Friday

  
  Bill Petro — Authority: 125
  HISTORY OF BLACK FRIDAY While it is difficult to connect this term to the start of the Christmas shopping sales season before its use in the mid-1960s in Philadelphia, the concept appears to go back to the 19th century when Christmas sales followed Thanksgiving Day parades. In 1939 President Franklin D Roosevelt ...
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• Giving Thanks

  
  Journey Across the Sky — Authority: 111
  Image via Wikipedia Almost from the very beginning of America the call to give thanks to Almighty God has been heard in the land. Even before the Pilgrims settled in Massachusetts the proclamation of Thanksgiving was sounded upon these shores. One of the earliest recorded celebrations occurred a half century ...
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