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• Tony Blair Says WMD Not The Only Reason For Iraq War, As Did Bush…..Both Were Right

  
  Flopping Aces — Authority: 663
  Tony Blair got it years ago, and still gets it : Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would have found a justification for invading Iraq even without the now-discredited evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction. “I would still have thought it right to remove ...
  2 days ago

• Teaching Social Justice in the Classroom?

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 120
  I took the week off to get some things accomplished that I needed to, so my apologies for a lack of posting, but I have been taking daily assessments of the blogosphere and noted a few things which I will comment on now. There has been some controversy over the History Channel’s upcoming Sunday evening program , ...
  3 days ago

• What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 127
  In a nutshell ( Jeff McMahon at True/Slant ): [US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused ...
  5 days ago

• Obama’s Best Speech Ever?

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 626
  I did not hear the president’s speech yesterday in Oslo when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, so cannot comment on his delivery. When I started reading snippets on conservative blogs, most singing the speech’s praises (with slight quibbles for some of the language), I thought I was reading something from a ...
  5 days ago

• Western Exceptionalism, or How America is the Future of Humanity

  
  Amber — Authority: 112
  With the rise of political correctness, and the notions that diversity means that all cultures are the same, and should be respected as equals came the idea that too much focus on one’s own culture showed an excess of pride; ethnocentrism was a sin, and the worst sin was Euro centrism, the tendency to interpret the ...
  6 days ago

• Richard Cheney and American Exceptionalism

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 427
       In a recent interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, former Vice-President Richard Cheney referred to President Barack Obama as "this guy who doesnt fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in," and stated that it would give "aid and comfort to the ...
  6 days ago

• Dick Cheney: Obama Doesn’t Believe in “American Exceptionalism”

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 123
  In “Does Barack Obama Really Know America”, I questioned whether Hope ‘n Change really knows America and whether he is – in Dorothy Rabbinowitz’s words, “a stranger to the country’s heart and character”. Now Dick Cheney has weighed in on the same topic in an interview with Sean Hannity. Via ...
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• Research Update: Entrepreneurship & American Exceptionalism

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 117
  I have spent the last month going deeper into the concept of American Exceptionalism and also reading more commentators on Turner. I am just about done with a The End of American Exceptionalism by David Wrobel . The book looks into the era surrounding Turner’s development of and presentation of his Frontier ...
  1 week ago

• False Dilemma: American Exceptionalism Versus Anti-American Internationalism

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 419
  Obama has been critiqued by some conservatives for a lack of sufficient embrace of “American exceptionalism,” which is normally defined as the view that America is a unique nation, with a unique international role, which views that role as chiefly a positive for the advancement of human rights and justice around ...
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• Is It Even Possible?

  
  RedBlueChristian — Authority: 112
  Here are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday in Advent, 6 December 2009. It is as much a political piece as it is an Advent piece. ——————————————————————————————— For whatever reason, the thoughts that I had about this piece never quite came together like ...
  1 week ago

• First Thoughts On President Obama’s Afghan Strategy Speech

  
  Great Power Politics — Authority: 111
  Just a quick word on the strategy laid out by Obama before getting to other firsthand observations of the speech. As I have written , I basically support the entire counterinsurgency ’surge’ strategy, but find the inputting of an exit date, July 2011 presumably, to be potentially counterproductive (how can we not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Middle East Suffering from Post-Cairo Depression?

  
  Flopping Aces — Authority: 663
  “Apparently”, the new American administration doesn’t have time for democracy-promoting/building…here (busy ramming a spoonful of socialized medicine down our throats) or elsewhere in the world. You see, in the words of the Democrats’ (oh, the irony of the party’s name!) “other candidate”, Hillary, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The stable dollar was not the cause of America’s growth and ascent to global hyperpower status. It was a consequence.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  It was the manifestation of American exceptionalism based in liberty and a profound sense of mission…the mission of global inclusiveness into the blessings of freedom so abundantly bestowed on America. Free markets, free elections, free speech, free thought and the freedom to experiment and innovate and the freedom ...
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• 388 years of gratitude

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 516
  This thanksgiving, Americans of every color and creed will sit down to a dinner with family, friends, and loved ones. Some will give thanks that at least one person in their home still has a job. Another will give thanks that the misfortunes of his neighbor have not been visited upon him. Another will give [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Gettysburg & Mr. Dreyfuss

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 120
  It looks like Mr. Dreyfuss had a nice day recently at Gettysburg as he continued his crusade campioning American civics and history instruction . Last Friday thousands showed up for the keynote Dedication Day speaker and Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss. After giving what appears to have been a well recieved ...
  3 weeks ago

• Politically Correct Non-Myth Busting?: The Iroquois and the American Constitution

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 120
  Some historians and wanna be historians love to do the “I told you so” in regards to American history. They love to point out how Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator, Washington did tell lies, and that Jefferson not only owned a bunch of slaves, he fathered children by one of those slaves. Indeed, all of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cult of Personality

  
  RANGER AGAINST WAR — Authority: 128
  Id kill for a Nobel Peace Prize --Steven Wright I sell the things you need to be I’m the smiling face on your t.v. I’m the cult of personality I exploit you still you love me --Cult of Personality , Living Colour _______________ The basic break between totalitarianism and liberal government is ...
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• Dear Scientologists…

  
  "Gone Fishin': Postcards From God" — Authority: 106
  Hollywood, USA Dear OT’s I Through XXVII (inclusive),   You guys have had it rough lately .  People think your religion, and your Chosen One , are just a big joke .  Boy, that smarts, doesn’t it?  So, I thought I would drop you a note to tell you to keep plugging away.   When My boys and I started Our ...
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• American Exceptionalism?

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 120
  A week or so ago the Pew Global Attitudes Project released a study titled “The Pulse of Europe 2009: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall” that centered on the attitudes in Eastern Europe and Russia about the collapse of Communism. The results are fascinating and led me to consider something after ...
  3 weeks ago

• Intent

  
  baldilocks — Authority: 571
  A symptom of stupidity? In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be "convicted" and had "the death penalty applied to him" . . . and then said he wasnt "pre-judging" the...
  3 weeks ago

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