Would people mind to just take it easy on all of the overblown rhetoric? Critics of healthcare reform call Barack Obama a Nazi. Critics of the Patriot Act called George W. Bush a Nazi. There are people who are complaining at town hall meetings on healthcare reform. They don’t like what they’re hearing, and they […]
Nazis Nazis Everywhere! Read More »
One thing I sometimes tell my history students is that generally when a country/kingdom has a conflict with another power, the citizens rally around their leader (at least over the short term). That’s why sometimes in history leaders have started trouble. If they are feeling the heat from their people, a little war here or
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There were several reasons why people voted for Barack Obama last November. These reasons include his charisma, his agenda, and the fact that he isn’t George W. Bush/John McCain/Hillary Clinton. But our newest President is facing some pretty big tests at this point, and relying on the things that got him elected might not be
I’ve read a few articles recently about how the Republican Party is dying because people are leaving it in droves. Some columnists are just offering their personal observations, but at least one cited recent polling data to back up his claim. According to the report he cited, though, the one by the Pew Research Center,
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President Barack Obama has faced an early challenge in his administration, and he handled it faster than George W. Bush and better than Bill Clinton. All three men came into office committed to doing something big. Clinton was going to “fix” healthcare. He put Hillary in charge and it didn’t work out. Bush wanted to
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