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Is America Coming Apart?

september 11th, 2009

Is America Coming Apart?

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate right here in [...]

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A Conversation About Race

Attorney General Eric Holdr recently called Americans as cowards for not talking frankly about race.  Personally, while I disagree with Mr. Holder’s position on most issues, I fully agree with him on this.  We are all supposed to be ‘color-blind’ in the brave new world, but in reality our actions give the lie to this [...]

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9-11 Tear Drop Monument From Russia

This was a surprise. I had no idea that the Russian People had donated a special monument to the victims of 9-11.

The Unveiling of a New World Monument
Remembering the Victims of September 11th
and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombings
A Gift from the People of Russia
Vladimir Putin, President
September 11th, 2006 2:30 pm
The Peninsula at Bayonne [...]

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What  it took  to get an 8th grade education in 1895…

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895…

 
  What  it took  to get an 8th grade education in 1895… 
Remember   when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only  had  an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us  have  passed the 8th grade in 1895? 
This is the  eighth-grade final exam  from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA .    It was taken from [...]

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700 Year Old Earth Buildings In Turkey

700 Year Old Earth Buildings In Turkey

As a builder I’m interested how people built housing throughout the ages.  Some of these buildings are really interesting.  In the north east of Iran at the foot of Mount Sahand in Kandovan, the villagers live in cave homes carved out from the volcanic rock.
The age of some houses is more than 700 [...]

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