from the Daily Kos December 31 - Happy New Year, everyone! Golden Gould Awards for 2005 by DarkSyde Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 10:27:54 PM PDT Some people might call...
Here I go again, trying to rationalize the irrational. "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo "Religion began when the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/opinion/01judson.html ... January 1, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Why I'm Happy I Evolved By OLIVIA JUDSON London If chimpanzees...
In a message dated 1/1/2006 9:40:27 PM Central Standard Time, smur@... writes: The USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides", as a Revolutionary War combat vessel ...
If all "conservatives" were like David Brooks, we wouldn't be in such trouble. My only quibble would be with the word "unintended." Ruling elites always, by...
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http://chriskade.com/?p=19 CHRIS KADE January 2, 2006 How will history judge our times? It is enormously difficult to see one's own times with a wider,...
Well.......got to admit, I am not at all sure what a chi-square is, but most members of the book club I belong to would recognize a quark. -- Laurey Steinke,...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/opinion/02loconte.html ... January 2, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P. By JOSEPH LOCONTE Washington ...
"Well.......got to admit, I am not at all sure what a chi-square is, but most members of the book club I belong to would recognize a quark". Chi square is a...
<http://www.nytimes.com/> ________________________________ January 3, 2006 The Cute Factor By NATALIE ANGIER WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 - If the mere sight of Tai...
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<http://www.nytimes.com/> ________________________________ January 3, 2006 From Bacteria to Us: What Went Right When Humans Started to Evolve? By CARL ZIMMER...
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Hello Oleg and all, Oleg posts: http://chriskade.com/?p=19 CHRIS KADE January 2, 2006 How will history judge our times? It is enormously difficult to see one's...
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" ...history simply becomes the propaganda of the winner." Used to be. Vietnam & Watergate changed that. The profession has developed very high standards of...
Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2006 9:49 pm
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washingtonpost.com > Politics How Abramoff Spread the Wealth SOURCE: Federal Election Commission records, the Center for Public Integrity, 1999-2004 |...
At first I thought Jeb might be better on this issue than brother George W. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13487395.htm But then I read the end of the...
This is for real; National Park Service historians confirm it. Website devoted to the USS Constitution, details of construction, etc: ...
Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2006 10:55 pm
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If Democrats do it, it's bad? To tie social justice issues to Biblical sources is "partisan"? Oh, wait, Heritage Foundation! Aha! ... From: KgKatman To: REASON...
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Jan 3, 2006 11:36 pm
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... (otherwise, what's the point?). Anyway, that's the goal. Ah, but what kind of history do our kids read in their school textbooks?...
When it comes to Ronald Reagan, the consensus among the historians seems to be that he run the Soviet Union into the ground and won the cold war, when it was...
Consensus of what historians? Have you read LeFeber? Gorbachev (who should know) said the Reagan build-up prolonged the war by strengthening the position of...
Jim Bechtel
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Jan 4, 2006 6:07 am
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Historians write their research, but you're right, committees of marketers write textbooks. ... From: Edgar Pearlstein To: Reason-Omaha@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Jim Bechtel
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... From: Edgar Pearlstein <epearlst@...> To: Reason-Omaha@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:56:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [Reason-Omaha]...
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Hello Jim, Oleg, and all, Dan said: ...history simply becomes the propaganda of the winner. Jim sez: Used to be. Vietnam & Watergate changed that. The...
O'Reilly, Dan
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1. First I want to apologize for my brusque "Read LaFeber" remark. It was late at night and I was in a hurry to hit the pillow. What I should have taken time...
Jim Bechtel
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Jan 4, 2006 4:02 pm
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1. Hobbes or Orwell? (Clay Naff predicted, back in 2001, that 9/11 would require erosion of privacy.) ... James P. Pinkerton: Security trumps civil liberties ...
Jim Bechtel
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Last night, I was flipping in-between the college football game and CNN to watch the situation in West Virginia with the coal mine, right at the time the ...
"Consensus of what historians?" Historians that that get the ear of the American mainstream. "Solidarity (& the Pope) also deserve credit for ending the Cold...