Topic: Europe
Sarah Palin, Republicanvice-presidential contender, who must be admired for her gutsy Americanaapproach to a contest she had all but lost even before she was nominated; andthe British crooner Susan Boyle, a unlikely star out of nowhere whose verypresence in the arena inspired ...
Tea party, Boston style!Years before the Boston Tea Party,Americans were fed up withTAXES!James Otis had this to saysometime around 1760Taxation without representation is tyranny!The colonists did not want America to be like their British counterparts and rejected the taxes imposed by the ...
What the sign really meant was ?hey, I am already over here illegally and living off the generous kindness of a na?ve America. I am deprived of his companionship and America is deprived of his diverse culture and background?. Out on the ...
Ideas, concepts, or terms may just end up seeming to beentirely subjective or totally relativistic unless put into the properhistorical, relational or other needed or required context. But, this is not at all thateasily possible with the modernist era ideology of Conservatism, ...
I wrote a comment to a hub where the writer falsely accuses your U.S. president Obama of being a communist. I noticed that instead of replying to my comment the author just deleted it.I guess I don't understand why someone would delete ...
The recent elevated alert to American travelers in Europe hasn't raised too many concerns. The timing is odd, considering it is just before the November elections. And believe me, he may not be personally running for office November but he is still ...
In 1964, the slogan of the Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, was "A choice, not an echo. In response to a questionnaire from a magazine, 1,189 psychiatrists, none of whom had ever met Goldwater, declared him unfit for office - "emotionally unstable," ...
MAINZ, Germany (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel told conservative party members on Saturday that immigrants needed to do more to integrate into German society, including learning the language and obeying "every single" law.Merkel, whose popularity has plunged since she won re-election a ...
Punctured Pundit: Americans are grateful to Gen. Colin Powell for his exemplary service in uniform. Perhaps Powell failed to notice on his trips to Europe as Bush administration foreign policy chief, but the Old World has been injecting itself with slow poison ...
Nonimportation Act, a law passed by the U.S. Congress in April, 1806, to forbid the importing of certain goods from Great Britain, in retaliation for British interference with American shipping. It was suspended for a year in December, 1806, in the hope ...
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