monday message board – john quiggin

The nonsense associated with the US mid-term elections, namely the allegations of fraud and corruption, the toxic smears, the calls to bring in the police and to impound ballots, and the rampant gerrymandering, have me once again thinking that Americans are inferior and uncivilised people.. ..

the day the guns fell silent

In Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Americans and French fought Germans for six weeks in 1918. ... In German trenches, joyous soldiers shouted that the war was over, and threw weapons and gear toward American lines, according to Persico.. ..

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op-ed: how we might think about the ‘war to end all wars’

Many elements contributed to the danger return of American, the debt owed to U.S by European allies, the crushing of. Piehler is author of Remembering War American Way, World War II in American Soldiers Lives Series, and co-editor of Major Problems American Military..

farsnews

The team of academics discovered that Spirit Cave remains -- the oldest mummy -- was Native American and they were able to dismiss theory that group called Paleoamericans existed North America before Native Americans.. ... Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, group of Native Americans..

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the humble libertarian: the supreme court is a mirage

How many billions of dollars of American wealth has been appropriated to be tied up in massive cabinet-level bureaucracies that wouldn't even exist if lawmakers were keeping to the Constitution? ... Sebelius, Chief Justice John Roberts upheld ObamaCare's individual mandate (requiring..

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