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• Obama Declines To Defend U.S. Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki (NewsBusters)

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  (NewsBusters)Defending the decision of the United States to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII is not a comfortable thing to do when youre in Japan.  But if youre President of the United States, you must do it. Diplomatically, yes.  With sympathy for the civilian victims, yes.  But you must ...
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• Theodore Roosevelts Ideas on Immigrants and Being an American in 1907

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is ...
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• Great Virtual Tour of the Lincoln Memorial

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  One of the highlights of any trip to Washington, DC is a visit to the Lincoln Memorial. However, if your school is like mine, chances are good that you wont be taking any field trips to Washington, DC anytime soon. Fortunately, the National Parks Service has a great virtual tour of the Lincoln Memorial . In the tour ...
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• Imperial Snuggie (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 691
  Imperial Guard Snuggie. Via these sites . And a few more links: 1. Reminder: Big scoops on politicians commonly come to reporters from rival candidates . For example, Obamas team spread the word about Edwards $400 haircuts. Via . 2. Moses was the founding fathers hero , and Franklin and Jefferson wanted ...
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• Jeb Bush’s Sons to Hold Fundraiser for Crist Challenger in Florida Senate Race

  
  Brian Bonner — Authority: 111
  So many questions are raised by the following article. I’ll let you read it first then I will opine. Read on MacBeth.From Fox News;Crist and Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, are facing off to fill the Senate seat vacated by former Sen. Mel Martinez. The race has emerged as one of [...]
  3 days ago

• More Veterans Day Lesson Resources

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Today is Veterans Day and schools across the US are closed. Most students will return to school tomorrow and that will be a good time to talk about Veterans Day if you werent able to talk about it yesterday. The US Department of Veterans Affairs has published a thirty-three page document of resources for teaching ...
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• Films for Veterans Day Courtesy of Snag Films

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Tomorrow is Veterans Day therefore schools across the US will be closed. If youre looking for films related to Veterans Day to use in your high school classroom either today or on Thursday, Snag Films has put together a collection of films for your consideration. Ive embedded one of their featured films, ...
  4 days ago

• A Bit of Thanksgiving History for Au Pair Care Au Pairs

  
  Au Pair Caf — Authority: 141
  Thanksgiving Day in the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. The custom of celebrating the harvest goes back to ancient times and remains a widespread custom. Thanksgiving Day commemorates the celebration held in 1621 after the first harvest by the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims who ...
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• Ronald Reagan Was a Fat Child

  
  Blonder and Thinnerrrr — Authority: 117
  MY HERO. Ronald "Ronnie" "President" Reagan was born in Illinois in 1911. He was nicknamed "Dutch" by his dad because he was as fat as a little Dutchman , and also his dad was totes a douchebag probably. He was totally into some Disciples of Christ church and had his first job as a lifeguard. Supposedly he saved ...
  5 days ago

• Documents and Videos from the 1960 Presidential Election

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Yesterdays document from the National Archives daily document feed was an image of the Massachusetts Election Ballot from 1960 . Seeing the ballot reminded me of a good resource for teaching about Presidential campaigns and elections. The Living Room Candidate has videos of almost every Presidential campaign ...
  6 days ago

• Maps of War - Animated Thematic Maps

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Maps of War has a collection of seven animated maps based on the themes of war, religion, and politics. Click here to see the History of Religions map . You can embed these maps into a blog or website, but I found that my blog loaded very slowly when I tried embedding the maps. Maps of War also has an extensive ...
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• Legislative and Judicial Chaos -- Political Sermons the Best Remedy? Of Course

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  ...He that ruleth over men, must rule in the fear of God. As if the royal prophet had said, “It is necessary, civil rulers should have upon their minds a becoming sense of God and religion: And it should govern their public conduct. Whatever they do, in their several stations, should be done under the guidance of an ...
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• Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2 percent ...adult men and whites hit hardest

  
  The Postal Newsgroup — Authority: 125
  Adult men and whites hit hardest by unemploymentIn October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million. The unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent, the highest rate since April 1983, surpassing the June 1983 rate of 10.1 percent. The unemployment rates for adult men and whites rose in ...
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• What books and papers literally turned history around?

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  Debating the effects  of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring got me wondering about the true influence of that book.  That quickly turned into wondering about the true influence of other writings, books and papers that might be credited with having turned around history in a given field, or in the United States (I’m ...
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• The Encyclopedia of American Disability History

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 114
  The new  1264-page Encyclopedia of American Disability History now appears to be shipping. Susan Burch is the editor of this massive, three volume Tome that retails for $295 (US) from Facts on File.  Burch is well known for her work in deafness, such as Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to ...
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• Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 141
  By William H. Thomas Jr. The University of Wisconsin Press Even the preface to Unsafe for Democracy makes William H. Thomas Jr.’s political stances abundantly clear, but impressively, his political leanings have no negative effect on either his literary voice or his scholarship. Unsafe for Democracy is a ...
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• #211 – Catholic Schools versus the KKK

  
  Catholic:Under The Hood — Authority: 111
  In the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan tried to shut down Catholic and other private schools in Oregon in the name of protecting American values. The effects of this would go all the way to the Supreme Court and help define human rights in the United States even today. Plus, the Eucharistic Prayer [...]
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• American Experience - The Crash of 1929

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Today marks the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday . CNN Student News had a short segment about it today. Watching the CNN segment reminded me that the PBS series American Experience has an hour long video about the stock market crash of 1929. PBS does not provide embed codes for their videos, but you can watch ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another take on liberalism (and the Left)

  
  howl at pluto — Authority: 125
  Alan Wolfes The Future of Liberalism , which I reviewed earlier , is reviewed by Harold Meyerson , who also discusses Doug Rossinows Visions of Progress . The latter deals with "the left-liberal alliance of the period from 1880 through 1940," with particular reference to the Farmer-Labor parties of the 1920s and ...
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• Who Controls Americas Military? (2/2)

  
  RedStateEclectic — Authority: 442
  The commanding heights in the US have become a self-service store for the powerful. It is not clear whether the various clients of the US self-serving store are necessarily in conflict with one another - some may be, others not. Only consider that the Goldman Sachs -Treasury-Fed self-aggrandising clientele represents ...
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