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Ask yourself this question: was the housing price bubble, which has burst, caused by (a) a Fed policy of too much liquidity, which caused artificially low interest rates, which in turn caused a great deal of malinvestment, or (b) a Fed policy of too little liquidity which caused high interest rates and a credit-starved economy? If you chose answer b, congratulations, you may have a future as a celebrated author, historian, and Wall Street Journal commentator. Answer b is a theme of a truly ridiculous article by John Steele Gordon in the October 10 issue of the Wall Street Journal...

Today Senator Obama told a little 7 year old girl, "America is no longer what it could be, what it once was, and I say to myself I don't want that future for my children." Obama is saying that America has become a worse nation since his childhood. I'm not one to go after a spouse, but I think given that Michelle Obama said that she was proud of her country for the first time in her life eariler in this campaign. This statement is just another stupid mistake that Obama should've avoided. However Obama is right about one thing,...

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Associated Press New York, Massachusetts launch program to save Revolutionary War trail markers. Bi-state effort hopes to save monuments to 1775-76 route ALBANY -- New York and Massachusetts are launching an effort to conserve dozens of roadside monuments that mark the route taken by patriots who transported the artillery that forced the British from Boston during the Revolutionary War. The granite slabs with bronze plaques serve as markers for the Knox Trail, considered one of the earliest heritage trails created in the United States. The trail mostly follows the original route used by Gen. Henry Knox and his troops in...

They will tell you the Civil War was not about slavery. Remind them that the president and vice president of the so-called "Confederate States of America" both said it was. They will tell you that great-great grandpa Zeke fought for the South, and he never owned any slaves. Remind them that it is political leaders - not grunts - who decide whether and why a war is waged. They will tell you the flag just celebrates heritage. Remind them that "heritage" is not a synonym for "good." After all, Nazis have a heritage, too.

Howard Dean & The 1850s: Convenient Racial Revisionism by Dr. Brian Melton “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Howard Dean has recently demonstrated conclusively that historical ignorance doesn’t stop with teenage mall-rats and muscle-bound jocks. In fact, it runs all the way up into the very heart of the DNC. The good doctor (who hopefully knows more about his profession than he does about history) has made the claim that the Republican Party “looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s.” The 1950s aside, Dean, of course, is attempting to smear the Republicans as a party...

"I just read in an Indian depredation claim I copied from the National Archives last summer that Black Kettle was understood by everyone in 1868 as being a spy for the raiding Indians. He would profess peace and all the time he was gathering information he would later share with the Dog Soldiers to assist them in their raids, etc." Dr. Jeff Broome, author of the very important book "Dog Soldier Justice", the most accurate depiction of the Indian massacres of 1868 "Some of the raiders came from Black Kettle's camp. As was the case on numerous previous occasions, his...

A fantastic short video of the U.S. Civil War compressed into four minutes

Circle of Six: The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop-Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him. http://www.amazon.com/Circle-Six-Notorious-Cop-Killer-Everything/dp/1932857397CIRCLE OF SIX The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop-Killer and the Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him In 1972, New York City was plagued with protests, riots, and general unrest. It was during this defining year that one of the Police Department's most scandalous cases occurred: the murder of Police Officer Phillip Cardillo. On Friday, April 14, 1972, the police were summoned to Mosque Number 7 in Harlem, led at the time by the Nation...

Colleges and universities across the U.S. -- including some of the most expensive in the country -- are failing to educate students about the nation's history and essential institutions, which is leading to a "coming crisis in citizenship," a study of more than 14,000 randomly selected students shows. Freshmen and seniors at 50 of the nation's colleges and universities were asked 60 multiple choice questions about America's history and government, its relationship to the rest of the world and the market economy in a survey done by the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy on behalf of the conservative...

Every so often, one hears the argument that "Left and Right" are outdated terms, or that there really aren't enormous differences in the ways the Left and Right view America, the world, men and women, and just about every other important aspect of life. I wish this were true. But the gaps between the Left and Right on almost every issue that matters -- including and especially issues of good and evil -- are in fact unbridgeable. That is why, for many years, I have invited leading representatives of the intellectual Left onto my radio show. Not in order to...

The history of the United States is a tale of constant oppression— a story of a checkered past where political leaders and economic moguls continually acted in their own self-interest… or so many left-leaning history authors would prefer modern Americans to believe. American history has been hijacked by the left wing, where the mistakes of America’s past such as slavery, disenfranchisement, and class warfare are overemphasized, while Franklin D. Roosevelt is simultaneously glorified as the savior of the twentieth century with his New Deal policies. While most textbooks of that nature may cast American history in a bad light and...

Freeper Larry Schweikart captures the essence of the unparalleled military success of the US Military with this book. Have their been mistakes? Yes. Have there been defeats? Yes. But the over-riding history of the US military is that of the most tremendous success, coupled with the most compassionate treatment of its enemies, and loyalty to its own, of any military force on earth. In America's Victories, Schweikart uses seven points to punctuate a great deal of the reason why the us miltary has enjoyed such success. Those points are: Gitmo, Gulags and Great Raids Learning from Loss Citizens as...

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So who was George Mason and what's he doing with a university named after him? "Did he invent the Mason jar?" Melanie Ruggiero, 32, of Green Cove Springs, near Jacksonville, mused as she nibbled on salad outside a Fort Lauderdale beach restaurant.

WASHINGTON - Twice as many Civil War soldiers died from insect-related disease than direct combat - an obscure fact Gary Miller has discovered in his unique, decades-long hobby. Since the 1970s, Miller, 48, of Laurel, Md., has pored over books, soldiers' letters and regimental histories for insect references. He found that mosquitoes, body lice and flies were a constant nuisance to Union and Confederate soldiers. Roughly 60,000 soldiers died from malaria on the Union side alone, he said. "I think the beauty of looking at the insects is it's a topic that we all can relate to," he said. "Few...

Perhaps this duel is the most famous in history. Its results certainly meant the end of both Hamilton and Burr. They carried Hamilton from the field and the next day he died. Burr lived for years, but the shadow of his own doom was ever before him. It is reported that late in life he observed that, had he been wiser, he would have known that there was room enough in the world for both Hamilton and himself. Had Hamilton been equally wise, he would have known that calumnies and lies bring forth but bitter fruit. When the news of...

There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday. Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them. No cooked human bones were found among the thousands of fragments...

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IS TEACHING TRADITIONAL “HISTORY” HISTORY IN CARSON CITY’S HIGH SCHOOL? Meet Joe Enge. Joe is an award-winning, 15-year veteran history teacher in Carson City who has, among other things, written two history textbooks and served on the 1997 task force which drew up Nevada’s history standards. But according to school district administrators, he’s a “bad” teacher. You see, Joe has this crazy idea that American history should include our colonial period, as well as the Revolutionary War period. You know, where the Founding Fathers fought for independence from England and wrote the greatest governing document the world has ever...

•President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth, Vt., on July 4, 1872. He is the only president born on July 4; however, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth of July. •One lucky Philadelphian purchased a $4 picture at a flea market. Behind the picture was an original 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence. It was sold to TV producer Norman Lear for $8.1 million. •After the war, King George III rationalized that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans yearn for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to...

Misquoting Our Founding Fathers    TO THE SOURCE How many times have your heard that "Our founding fathers were not Christians! They were deists!"? It is an absurd assertion. It conjures up images of clandestine gatherings in Philadelphia's Independence Hall where one by one Washington and Jefferson and Adams et al swear allegiance to some obscure deist creed and pledge to set America on the course of eradicating Biblical belief from all corners of the land. Sure some of our nation's founders were deists. Consider the grumpy pamphleteer Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason: "I do not believe in...

Jeff Head's Review of "A Patriot's History of the United States" Larry Schweikart (Freeper LS) and Michael Allen have written a history of the United States that is tremendously broad in scope, and monumental in its approach in our modern times. It begins with Christopher Columbus and proceeds through to current events, including 9-11 and its aftermath, the War on Terror and the fights in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the re-election of George W. Bush.. The work covers over 510 years of history in 825 pages. There are over 70 pages of footnotes at the end of the...

THE founding fathers were paranoid hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents. What was their cherished Declaration of Independence but empty political posturing? They groaned about the burden of taxation, but it was the English who were shouldering the real burden, paying taxes on everything from property to beer, from soap to candles, tobacco, paper, leather and beeswax. The notorious tea tax, which had so inflamed the people of Massachusetts, was only one-fourth of what the English paid at home; even Benjamin Franklin labeled the Boston Tea Party an act of piracy. Meanwhile, smugglers, with the full connivance of the colonists, were getting...

The New York Times recently ran a story about historian David Barton and his efforts to educate Americans on the religious beliefs of the Founders, titled Putting God Back into American History. The article correctly describes Mr. Barton as “a point man in a growing movement to call attention to the open Christianity of America’s great leaders and founding documents.” It appears that while the Times recognizes this movement, it does not yet understand it. Their lack of understanding results in: 1. Minimizing the movement by limiting it to “evangelical” Christians. 2.Equating the State with society and the Church with...

WASHINGTON — On a recent evening, David Barton, a leading conservative Christian advocate for emphasizing religion in American history, stood barefoot on a bench in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building with a congressman by his side and about a hundred students from Oral Roberts University at his feet. "Isn't it interesting that we have all been trained to recognize the two least religious founding fathers?" Mr. Barton asked, pointing to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in a painting on the wall. "And compared to today's secularists these two guys look like a couple of Bible-thumping evangelicals!" Even...

JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - The Church of England has agreed to allow researchers using radar to look beneath two churches for remains that could determine whether a skeleton found at Jamestown is that of one of the colony's founders, scientists said Monday. Scientists who excavated the site of a 400-year-old fort at Jamestown want to know whether a skeleton discovered there in 2003 is that of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, captain of one of the three ships that carried settlers from England. To do so, they need to find the graves of Gosnold's sister and niece, who were buried in two...

BOOK REVIEW: A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES By L. Schweikart and M. Allen; Publisher: Penguin, N.Y., 2004 It is refreshing to see a book like this published by a mainstream publisher. It seems that at least one mainstream publisher sees the advantage of having some balance in their list. Penguin is normally a reliable fountain of Left-wing books. Perhaps they even bored themselves in the end. The book is however on a special "Sentinel" list for specifically conservative books. Quarantining conservative books like a dangerous disease is a sort of a compliment to such books, though. It shows...

Florida Freepers: I will be appearing on WIOD, an AM radio station in Miami, Fla., on January 10, at 3:00 to discuss my new book, "A Patriot's History of the United States: From Coumubus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror." Tune in!!

The First Amendment to the Constitution forbids Congress to set up an official church; there was to be no “Church of the United States” as a branch of this country’s government. Such an alliance between Church and State is what “establishment” means. An established church is a politico-ecclesiastical structure that receives support from tax monies, advances its program by political means, and penalizes dissent. Our Constitution renounces such arrangements in toto; the Founders wrote the First Amendment into the Constitution to prevent them. The famed American jurist Joseph Story, who served on the Supreme Court from 1811 till 1845, and...

LONGMONT, Colo. -- City officials will rename a street honoring a Civil War-era colonel blamed for the slaughter of more than 150 Indians at an encampment southeast of Denver. "It was racist and insensitive to the Native American community," activist Glenn Sagnuolo said after the City Council vote Tuesday night to rename Chivington Drive.

<p>This is it, Freepers! A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror goes on sale today!</p> <p>Freepers, if you love history, and, more important, if you think that there has been a void in the telling of America's REAL history, this book is for you.</p>

1960: WHO REALLY WON? Just shot an episode of Uncommon Knowledge, on the Electoral College, on which my guests were Tara Ross (whose new book, Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College is wonderfully cogent) and Jack Rakove, a professor of history here at Stanford. When I asked how many times the Electoral College had given chosen as president the candidate who had lost the popular vote, Tara and Jack mentioned the elections that usually get mentioned, namely those of 1876, 1888 and 2000, in which the winners of the popular vote (Tilden, Cleveland and Gore, respectively) lost the...

by Phyllis Schlafly November 3, 2004 The flap over the Department of Education consigning 300,000 copies of "Helping Your Child to Learn History" to the dumpster is evidence anew that the Federal Government should have no role in education. Illiteracy and low scores in public schools are a national scandal, but it's hard to see how federal spending improves anything. During the presidential campaign, both candidates vied with each other about how much federal money they would spend. John Kerry claimed that the Bush Administration failed to provide necessary funding for No Child Left Behind, and Bush spokesmen bragged that...

An overlooked truth about the war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq in particular, is that they both arrived too soon for the American military: before it had adequately transformed itself from a dinosaurian, Industrial Age beast to a light and lethal instrument skilled in guerrilla warfare, attuned to the local environment in the way of the 19th-century Apaches. My mention of the Apaches is deliberate. For in a world where mass infantry invasions are becoming politically and diplomatically prohibitive — even as dirty little struggles proliferate, featuring small clusters of combatants hiding out in Third World slums, deserts...

The original bust of George Washington by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon is seen next to the three-dimensional scan by computer scientists at Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling (PRISM) at Arizona State University. The modern image will be used to create three life-size models of the first president for an exhibit scheduled to go on view at Mount Vernon in Virginia in 2006. (Prism via Reuters) MOUNT VERNON, Va. (Reuters) - Americans know George Washington as the dour founding father with white hair and ponytail depicted on U.S. currency, but most people have little idea what the nation's first...

Freepers, I'm thrilled to announce that our new U.S. history book, "A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror," is now listed on Amazon. We are scheduled for a November release! Sick of liberal lies about U.S. history? Want a book that gives Ronald Reagan and G. W. Bush the respect they are due? Tired of the shopworn myths about the New Deal "saving" America? Want some REAL American heroes? Try our "Patriot's History." Here is the Amazon link (and I hope it beats out Dick Clarke's book!): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595230017/qid%3D1092128431/104-3807388-5355145

Lightning may never strike twice. But in the wake of the Democratic National Convention, both President Bush and John Kerry should take counsel from another '04 campaign -- the 1904 battle between Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, and Judge Alton B. Parker, a Democrat. Striking similarities, many of them downright eerie, abound between the two '04's in realms foreign and domestic, beginning with the event that launched Roosevelt's presidency. Then, as now, the nation reacted with shock and horror when a monstrous act of murder took place in New York in September of '01 -- the fatal shooting of President William...

HAD you gone to high school in Norway, your textbook would have taught you Columbus was old news: the most important arrival in America was the Viking Leif Ericson's in the early 10th century. If, on the other hand, you'd spent your teenage years in Cuba, you'd have learned that when Columbus discovered Cuba, he thought it was the promised land and didn't want to go any farther. These and other extracts in ''History Lessons: How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History'' tell us two things: historical narratives are biased and untrustworthy; and America's impact on the world...

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Two hundred years ago today, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton squared off in a sunrise duel on a wooded ledge in Weehawken, N.J., above the Hudson River. Burr was vice president when he leveled his fatal shot at Hamilton, the former Treasury secretary, who died the next day in what is now the West Village of Manhattan. New Yorkers turned out en masse for Hamilton's funeral, while Burr (rightly or wrongly) was branded an assassin and fled south in anticipation of indictments in New York and New Jersey. To the horror of Hamilton's admirers, the vice president, now...

Description: Forrest McDonald is Distinguished University Research Professor emeritus at the University of Alabama. His new book, "Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir," recounts the story of his life and his career as a professor, historian, and author. Mr. McDonald's previous books are "Let There Be Light: The Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin, 1881-1955" (American History Research Center, 1957), "We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution" (University of Chicago Press, 1958), "Insull" (University of Chicago Press, 1962), "E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790" (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), "The Torch Is Passed: The United States in...

Ligonier, PA. – This is the 250th anniversary of why we don't speak French. It all began in this area of Western Pennsylvania in the spring and summer of 1754. It must have been a spring and summer much like the one we've been experiencing around here this year — lots of rain; lots and lots of rain. Back at that time these mountains were covered with dense forest laced by mountain streams and rivers, a vast hunting ground for the Indians in a few scattered villages. A handful of hardy English and German-American adventurers hunted, trapped and traded with...

IN his heart of hearts, Bill Stanley probably knows that he's not going to convince the world that George Washington was the 11th president of the United States and that local-boy-made-good Samuel Huntington was the first. But Mr. Stanley looks like a man on a mission as he picks his way through the ancient gravestones in Colonial Cemetery here toward the refurbished tomb where Huntington and his wife, Martha, are buried. And that mission is to establish that the first president of the United States was not the general from Virginia, but a taciturn, self-educated farmer's son and future Connecticut...

It began on a drizzly 18th-century morning with a brief exchange of gunfire, and it spread from what is now Fayette County to the four corners of the globe. It rearranged empires, setting the stage for the American Revolution and forging young George Washington in its fiery furnace. The French and Indian War -- which commenced 250 years ago on May 28 -- was an event of earth-shaking consequences, and yet historians say it is the least appreciated of America's wars. "We tend to think of the Revolution as the real starting point in American history," said historian Fred Anderson,...

Certainly the truth can now be told without arousing animosity. The historian has a duty to narrate the facts, no matter how gruesome they may be. In this instance, it tells the story of unrivaled American heroism and also reveals the frightful horrors suffered by American prisoners in the disease-infested prison ships in New York harbor. It is one of the most tragic, but little-known, events in our history. Actually, three times as many American Patriots were liquidated - 13,000 on the infamous British prison ships and in New York prisons-than the 4,300 killed in the American armed forces during...

When Lt. John W. Davidson led U.S. dragoons into rugged Cieneguilla, he also led the troops into a fight they could not win - and himself into the shadow of suspicion. PILAR - One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, when Pilar was called Cieneguilla, 60 U.S. dragoons rode into the mountains east of here looking for Jicarilla Apaches. It didn't take them long to locate their quarry. "Found ourselves at 8 o'clock a.m. in ambush surrounded by 400 Indians," Pvt. James A. Bennett of the dragoons noted in his journal entry for March 30, 1854. "Fought hard until 12 noon when we started...

A curious thing seems to have happened since Saddam Hussein's regime was overthrown in Iraq. America no longer feels like a country at war. It isn't over by a long shot. There's a bloody insurgency around Baghdad that still needs putting down. Al Qaeda is still out there somewhere, sinister and nebulous as ever. Afghanistan is mostly lawless, and we're still exchanging barbs with Iran and North Korea. But it feels different now. The barbarous acts of terror in Madrid had a far greater impact in Europe than in America. The Terror War has the vibe of a stand-off...

Editor's Note: March is Texas History Month. This is another in the series of articles on Texas history. Even before the Texans declared their independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836 the Mexican army had already advanced into the state. In December 1835, a group of Texan (or Texians) had captured the town of B/xar. However, the Texans soon realized that B/xar was a main road to get throughout the state. The Camino Real (Old San Antonio Road) crossed the Rio Grande at Paso de Francia (San Antonio Crossing) and went northeast through San Antonio de B/xar, Bastrop, Nacogdoches, San...

The task facing architect Robert A.M. Stern was daunting: design a museum to tell the story of the American Revolution but not interfere with the historic landscape at Valley Forge. Today at Valley Forge National Historical Park, Stern and his staff are set to present a design that he says does all that - plus serves as a model for a 21st-century museum, embracing the past in a structure finely attuned to the future. Gov. Rendell and historian David McCullough, along with Stern, will be on hand for the event. Officials said that groundbreaking for the $100 million project is...