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POPSHoward Zinn...who's he? His most famous book is: "A People’s History Of the United States."....by Howard Zinn. If you are looking for a history book with the usual "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492"...etc. etc. , then you won't like this book!
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POPSI LIKE IKE! "American people will not tolerate the dismantling of our social saftey net and the tearing of the social contract we understand to have with the corportists in order to keep their facsist tendencies at bay. " WELL SAID!
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POPS"President" = "Commander-in-Chief"? The militarization of US political culture Historian Garry Wills on the use of the phrase "commander-in-chief" to refer to the US President. He reminds us that the Constitution designates the POTUS as "commander in chief of the U.S. Army and Navy" -- not of civilians -- and suggests that the prevalent use of military language to refer to civilian political institutions is indicative of a wider and more problematic trend.
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POPSHow to re-wright history 101 "A formula for keeping embarrassing facts secret in perpetuity........" I guess you can't blame him for wanting to keep his secrets, secret. What amazes me is how this "executive order" changing the law was thrown out there in 2001. King George must have had a premonition of things to come. Here's the name of that order, and what it does......... "First, the university should insist that Mr. Bush rescind Executive Order 13233, his 2001 directive that reverses — illegally in the view of many leading historians, journalists and legal thinkers — the strong presumption of a public right of access to presidential papers embedded in the 1978 Presidential Records Act."
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POPSWhat's the diff. between Sunni and Shia? Before the Iraq War, I didn't actually know there was any difference. I just naively thought all Muslims were the same. But of course, they have variations between them, even though they do believe in the same god, Allah. Just as the Catholics, Protestants, Jews and so on, believe in their same god, God.
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POPSIraq - Genghis Khan could do it better By the time of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the political achievements of the Mongols had been forgotten, and only the destructive fury of their wars was remembered. Yet under the Mongols — and the legacy of Genghis Khan — Iraq enjoyed a century of peace and a renaissance that brought the region to a level of prosperity and cultural sophistication higher than it enjoyed before or after. Any country with a bent for empire could do worse than learn from Genghis Khan.
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