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Which Dystopian Novel Got It Right: Orwell’s ‘1984’ or Huxley’s ‘Brave New...
BOOK REVIEW, New York Timesimage (not from below entry) fromWhich Dystopian Novel Got It Right: Orwell’s ‘1984’Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’?FEB. 13, 2017Charles McGrath The totalitarian rulers in...
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President Donald Trump Announces Sale of California to Mexico – The Art of...
hallsofkarma.wordpress.com; via LH on FacebookMEXICO CITY, MEXICO – March 15: President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto (L) and President Donald Trump attend a meeting at Mar A Lago.(Photo by Getty...
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A follow-up on Hell-icopter noise over the Imperial Capital
Follow-up on a previous posting:image fromToday, on a key day for the "March Madness" college basketball championships, noisy helicopter overflights over my modest apartment in NW, Washington DC...
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What Does Vladimir Putin Want?
Nick Tabor, nymag.comimage (not from article) fromSince the election of Donald Trump, a chasm has opened in American views of Vladimir Putin. Liberals see him as a murderous autocrat and kleptocrat who...
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The Unifying American Story - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Brooks MARCH 21, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: Puritans leaving for America, ca. 1635.One of the things we’ve lost in this country is our story. It is the narrative that...
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Book Review: "Are We Rome?" (2007) - Further note to a book cited during the...
The Empire in the Mirror, Book Review By WALTER ISAACSON MAY 13, 2007, New York Timesimage fromThe only sure thing that can be said about the past is that anyone who can rememberSantayana’s maxim is...
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Americans Think God Made Us Great - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Dora Mekouar, Voice of America (2015)Image from article, with caption: The painting “Desembarco de los Puritanos en America,” or “The Arrival of the Pilgrims in America,” by Antonio Gisbert (1834-1902)...
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Most Americans Still Believe in God - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
gallup.com (June 29, 2016)by Frank NewportSTORY HIGHLIGHTS89% of Americans say they believe in GodIn a separate poll, 79% say "believe in God" and 10% "not sure"All measures of belief in God show...
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The American Dream - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
By Kimberly Amadeo, thebalance.comUpdated February 20, 2017The American Dream was first publicly defined in 1931. Historian James Truslow Adams used the phrase in his book Epic of America. Adams'...
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The Fragmented Society (2016) - Note for a book cited in a discussion, "E...
David Brooks, The Fragmented Society, New York Times MAY 20, 2016image fromThere are just a few essential reads if you want to understand the American socialand political landscape today. Robert...
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America’s Complacent Class (2017) - Note for a book cited in a discussion, "E...
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Separation of Powers - Further Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
image from entryThe framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of...
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Planet of the Apes - Further note on a film cited in the discussion, "E...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPlanet of the ApesTheatrical release posterDirected byFranklin J. SchaffnerProduced byArthur P. JacobsScreenplay byMichael WilsonRod SerlingBased onPlanet of the...
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"Join or Die" -- Further note on a 1754 item cited in a discussion, "E...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor the television series, see Join or Die with Craig Ferguson.Join, or Die by Benjamin Franklin was recycled to encourage the former colonies to unite against...
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The "Disunited States of America" - Further note on a book to be cited in a...
turtledove.wikia.comThe Disunited States of America, Tor, 2006, is the fourth novel in Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic series. It posits an alternate in which the United States did not reach the...
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Lincoln's House Divided Speech - Further note on a text cited a book cited...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"House divided" redirects here. For the episode of the TV series House, see House Divided.Lincoln in 1858The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham...
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Review of "The Disuniting of America" (1992) -- Further note for a book cited...
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Martin Luther King, J. Speech, I Have a Dream (1963) -- Note for item cited...
americanrhetoric.comMartin Luther King, Jr.I Have a Dreamdelivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.Video PurchaseOff-Site audio mp3 of AddressPlug-in required for flash...
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"Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" (2011) -- Further...
Text from: amazon.comimage fromAmerica is disintegrating. The "one Nation under God, indivisible" of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In...
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Who are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004) - Note for a...
"An Identity Crisis for Norman Rockwell America," Review by Michiko Kakutani of Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington, New York Times (May 28, 2004)image...
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