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Journalism History History Quiz 1 Answers 1. Who did Benjamin Franklin replace as postmaster for Philadelphia Pennsylvania? Hint: The two were rivals for virtually every field of publication. ANSWER: Andrew Bradford. Franklin was appointed postmaster when Bradford was fired. 2. Benjamin Harris is best known for printing the first newspaper in the colonies of North America. Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Domestick was printed on September 25, 1690. The most lasting contribution Harris made to the media in America, however, could be his book published in the same year. It is often referred to as "The Little Bible of New...

ON THE QT: A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF A FRIEND... There's a theory that all of us are linked by just a few people. This is called, variously, the Small World Phenomenon and the Six Degrees of Separation. Now, thanks to the Internet, the Sociology Department at Columbia University is testing the theory. It has selected target people. Now, it is recruiting people to test the theory. It works this way: A participant sends an e-mail to an acquaintance, who forwards it to another person. This continues until it reaches someone who knows the target person. The profs want...

The Mafia State by William Anderson [Posted June 14, 2002] With the passing of John Gotti, the former "head" of the Gambino crime family, we have been treated to a series of media stories, some of which condemn the Teflon Don and others versed in a grudging admiration for this character. These stories have managed to miss nearly every lesson this violent man’s life had to show us. Gotti was by all accounts a violent man. He was able to parlay his ruthlessness into wealth, albeit temporary, but it also led to his downfall. The world is full of violent...

Did Price Controls Work? by William L. Anderson One of the justifications for socialism and interventionism has been that some commodities simply are "too important to leave to the market." Thus, the New York Times, certainly no friend to free markets, recently editorialized about California and the Enron affair: It is Washington's duty to find out why (electricity markets melted down in California), and to devise the necessary safeguards. Electricity is a public necessity that must be managed wisely, not entrusted blindly to the market.[1] Most likely, the person who wrote this editorial thought of himself as being a rather...

SQUARELY PLACING BLAME HELPING HILLARY By: Barbara Stanley The two Clintons destroyed the FBI and Hillary used it as her own personal muckraking agency, effectively made it an arm of her personal staff. While Bill was eviscerating, Hill was collecting, amassing, creating her own little black book of blackmail as the need arose. And arise it would and will continue, as this power mad socialist shoots for the highest office in the land. The lowest among us runs for the highest position and what a kick in the head that is. I would sooner trust a crack whore than this...

In listening to Rush today, the discussion of Bono's enterprise to pressure the USA to give more financial aid to Africa was a topic. During the discussion, Ted Nugent called in to state that he spends six months in Africa teaching the citizenry about hunting. If you are not aware, Nugent is an accomplished bowhunter. Who is providing the most assistance to the African people? I watched a special on the tele where the medical care was so atrocious that the African people die from something so curative here. Question to you: Why with all this aid do conditions remain...

I just watched a disgusting segment where a new film is being promoted by some tele station for Woody Allen. The interview was by Katie Couric. I don't know the name of the station, but this is beyond reproach. He not only raped his daugter--she was an orphan. We must speak out against this creep. Can someone help with the best way to do this?

What has happened to the Cookbook?

Nagasaki, Mon Amour FrontPageMagazine.com | August 8, 2001 EACH AUGUST THE DEBATE RETURNS, this year won masterfully by my Front Page Magazine brother columnist Ronald Radosh: Should the United States on August 6, 1945, have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? Given that the alternative would have required invasion of Japan and the deaths of perhaps a quarter-million Americans, a million or more Japanese, and prolonged suffering on both sides, most moral people answer Yes, we should have dropped the bomb. We had only three bombs, one to test and two to use and none to spare on a demonstration...

DECONSTRUCTING THE JFK MYTH A NICE DREAM BETTER LEFT TO THE THEATER By: SARTRE "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." - JFK This stirring call to action best remembers the King of Camelot. He inspired an entire generation of youth to the call of public service. What noble intentions they had when entering into the hallowed halls of government duty. It is sad that the premise was so flawed! The invocation needed to read: "Ask not what you can do for your country -- Ask what we can ...

Market Solutions to Conflicts-of-Interest by James Sheehan [Posted February 5, 2002] With the Enron collapse making headlines, all the usual suspects in government and the media are beating the drums for more government regulation of the financial world. As a result, we are hearing specious arguments about alleged "conflicts of interest" amongst brokerage firm equity analysts. This issue is spearheaded by a ruthless New York plaintiff’s lawyer, Jacob Zamansky, who has filed several frivolous lawsuits against brokerage firms. Falling stock prices, like Enron’s, are put forth as "proof" that brokerage firms recommend bad companies in order to rip off retail ...

The PLA Menace by Gary M. Galles [Posted January 30, 2002] Politicians and bureaucrats seem to get their hands into everything, including a vast array of things they have no logical or constitutional reason to be involved in. If that wasn't bad enough, despite their constantly proclaimed commitment to stretching taxpayer dollars as far as possible, they often do such things very inefficiently, giving taxpayers much less for their money. One of the most rapidly growing but little noticed ways of doing this is for government agencies to mandate project labor agreements (PLAs) for government-funded construction, as a payoff for ...

ISLAMIC AND LIBERAL THINKING: THE MISSING LINK By: William Kaliher The 9-11 war has again brought to the fore that curious dichotomy benevolently described as liberal thinking. Normal Americans have long wondered about their liberal brethren. Are they living missing links? Is their inability to make comparative analysis learned behavior, genetic or due to some mysterious environmental situation? The joke about it taking a mugging to make a liberal see reality isn't really funny when one considers the degree of obtuseness required to be liberal. The humorous insight, when a liberal calls one a racist, sexist or homophobic he has ...

WOULD THOMAS JEFFERSON THINK WE ARE FREE? By Steven L. Hayes and Charles Adams What if Jefferson were to revisit America today? Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. In his lifetime he saw his country transformed from an English colony to a country ruled by its own citizens. Remembered by many as the author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also served as President and guided the young nation through eight turbulent years. When Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 at the age of 83, he left a country and a people whose commitment to the ideas of ...

Vienna, VA - January 7, 2002 -The following open letter is from Kenneth Feld, Chairman and Producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® , in an appeal to the animal rights organizations that continue to waste their members' valuable financial contributions and the organizations' human resources attacking responsible animal care providers, instead of spending them on the care of animals. * * * * * An Open Letter to Animal Rights Groups After sitting through a trial in San Jose, California, that should never have come to court, and witnessing a senseless waste of taxpayer's money, I am writing ...

MONEY AND DEPRESSION THE COMING CHANGE By: William Kaliher What is money? I can't define or fully explain it, but current events demand we think about money. A year ago, the Congress and many state governments were aglow, discussing plans for the(ir) surplus money. Since then, we've had the 9-11 terrorism and the discovery some people or companies made money from those attacks via the stock market. That has led to our war policy of attacking the country of "fill in the blank," but currently being waged in Afghanistan. Then we've had the Enron company collapse, leaving over 40 billion ...

Merger Rumors Are your investments in order? Here are some of the latest rumors from Wall Street. In the wake of the AOL/Time Warner deal, these are some mergers we may expect to see (OR NOT): Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush and R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace. Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge to become Polly-Warner-Cracker. 3M and Goodyear merge to become MMMGood. John Deere and Abitibi-Price merge to become Deere Abi. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco and Dakota Mining merge to become Zip Audi Do Da. Honeywell, Imasco, and ...

Why I Love Her

<p>WASHINGTON — Kids from across America, some 52 million of them in 107,000 elementary and secondary schools, are being urged by federal officials to stand up from their desks Friday afternoon and simultaneously recite the Pledge of Allegiance.</p> <p>The effort has been called the largest synchronized chorus of the pledge in history and is being encouraged by Education Secretary Rod Paige, who himself will join in the effort from a school in Washington, D.C. The campaign is being organized by the nonprofit Celebration U.S.A.</p>

DEATH TO LIBERALISM A PLAN By: William Kaliher To defeat liberalism patriotic Americans will have to unite. We will have to recognize liberalism for the insidious virus it is and deal with it properly. The ebola virus, itself takes a backseat to the damage caused by liberalism. We, conservatives, libertarians, patriots and independents, will have to admit we have been stupid, ignorant, foolish, disorganized, petty, and selfish in many respects. We have never united. We must look at our strengths so we can organize to kill the Socialist beast from the darkest corners of hell now calling itself liberalism. Patrick ...