americanthinker.com - 1/19/2009
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The history lesson that students should never forget is, sadly, the same one that students never hear.
POLITICS: Ten Lessons From the Bush Administration
baseballcrank.com 2/2/2009 —
There are many things - good and bad alike - to look back on from the Bush Administration, as befits only the 12th man in our history, and only the 7th since 1837, to serve a full 8 years in the Oval Office. Whether we like the task or not, ...
Iraq and Its Lessons, Part 2
americanthinker.com 1/1/2009 — It was not our military that failed; it was our diplomacy. Not to put too fine a point on it, that means we should be blaming the State Department and Colin Powell rather than Defense and Donald Rumsfeld.
Don't learn the wrong lessons from the New Deal
betsyspage.blogspot.com 2/2/2009 — Amity Shlaes, author of the very readable and informative The Forgotten Man, argues that we are in danger of learning the wrong lessons from the New Deal.But Roosevelt the economist is unworthy of emulation. His first goal was to reduce unemployment. ...
The Crisis of 2008: Structural Lessons for and from Economics
econ-www.mit.edu 1/8/2009 — We do not yet know whether the global
nancial and conomic crisis of 2008 will go down in history as a momentous or even uniquely catastrophic event. Unwritten history is full of events that contemporaries thought were epochal and are today long ...
Bailout Lessons from Blagojevich
reason.com 12/10/2008 — Economist Steve Horwitz wonders how bailout supporters can remain sanguine in the face of things like the Blagojovich indictment : I simply do not understand how those who are in favor of giving government all of these new powers because they ...
Lessons In Survival
michaelyon-online.com 2/17/2009 — 17 February 2009 The science that explains why elite military forces bounce back faster than the rest of us. By Ben Sherwood | NEWSWEEK Published Feb 14, 2009 | Updated: 2:38 p.m. ET Feb 14, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009 In a ...
For Obama, Lessons in Partisan Realities
washingtonpost.com 2/17/2009 — We might as well start with Judd Gregg because, in a way, he is at the heart of the problem. The first time I met him was in New Hampshire, during the 2000 Republican primary, when he came into the kitchen of a high school to tell me and another ...
Any Lessons for the Stimulus from World War II?
delong.typepad.com 1/30/2009 — Paul Krugman pounds his head against the wall:
Spending in wartime : One of the small compensating benefits of the economic crisis is that people have suddenly realized that economic history is relevant. Unfortunately, some of the attempts to ...
LESSONS OF AIG
newmajority.com 3/20/2009 — Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:56 AM I’ve gotten a fairly big response to the following (quickly written) piece in the Washington Post on Thursday: The AIG debacle teaches us two things. First, it does not make sense to try to save any single financial ...
Black Iraqis make Obama a model to follow —
CNN Political Ticker 1/19/2009
Jalal Thiyab Thijeel quotes Barack Obama, saying it is time for change.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Their faces and darker skins make them look different. They are routinely called "slave" by the majority, whatever their profession. But Iraq's ...
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