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Kristi Eaton and Walter R. Mears Associated Press 10/21/2012 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way – and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late […] October 21st, 2012 | Tags: 1972, Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, obituary, President Richard M. Nixon, Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, Terry Moran, Twitter, Viet Nam | Category: Elections, History, Politics, Progressives, South Dakota, World War II | Comments are closed
Ted Thornhill Daily Mail [UK] 3rd January 2012 It’s a great way to brush up on your history – but some may find parts a bit depressing. YouTube user derDon1234 has squashed 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage. It charts some of our greatest achievements, […] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 1979 Islamic Revolution, 20th Century, 9/11/2001, Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, Berlin Wall, Bhopal, Cassius Clay, Charles Lindbergh, Chernobyl, D-Day, Empire State Building, Fukushima nuclear disaster, Hindenburg disaster, hydrogen bomb, Khmer Rouge, Lockerbie, lunar landing, Mao Zedong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammad Ali, Mohandas Ghandi, Pearl Harbor, Pope John Paul II, President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Roald Amundsen, Rwanda, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Influenza, Sputnik, The Six Day War--1967, Titanic, tsunami, Viet Nam, Weimar Republic | Category: Asia, Barack Obama, China, Communism, Crime, Cuba, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military, Nazis, North Korea, Politics, Russia, Science/Research/Technology, technology, terrorism, United States, Video, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
Bob Hope’s USO Christmas Specials–Thanks for the Memories My Daily SoapBox 12/17/2011 …One of the few constants of the Vietnam War—one eagerly anticipated by American troops, that is—was the annual Bob Hope Christmas Show. From 1964 to 1972, Hope included South Vietnam on his annual trips to visit troops during the holiday season, a tradition […] December 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Bob Hope, Christmas, Gulf War, USO, Viet Nam | Category: Entertainment, History, Hollywood, Humor, Military, Video, World War II | Comments are closed
Top Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea has defended his actions at a UN-backed court in Cambodia, on the second day of his genocide trial. BBC News 22 November 2011 A prosecutor said he and his two co-defendants had “murdered, tortured and terrorised” their own people. But Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s deputy, said he had worked […] November 26th, 2011 | Tags: Brother Number Two, Cambodia, genocide, Khmer Rouge, Maoist, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, Viet Nam | Category: Asia, Communism, United Nations | Comments are closed
Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media 10/19/2011 The AFL-CIO is making headlines by running ads promoting “Occupy Wall Street.” One seriously doubts that members of the working class have much in common with the left-wing professional agitators running these protests and the tent cities they are erecting illegally in private and public parks in New York, […] October 20th, 2011 | Tags: "Occupy Wall Street", "Take Back the American Dream", "The Coming Insurrection", 9 to 5, AFL-CIO, Bernadine Dohrn, Black Panther Support Committee, chaos, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Democratic Socialists of America, Ira Arlook, Jane Fonda, John Sweeney, Karen Nussbaum, Richard Trumka, SEIU Local 925, Venceremos Brigades to Cuba, Viet Nam, Weather Underground, Working America | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, Cuba, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Islam, Marxism, Media accountability, New York, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Unions, Video | Comments are closed
Matthew Balan NewsBusters.org 10/3/2011 On Monday’s “Fox and Friends,” liberal comedian George Lopez all but threw the “Oreo” racial slur at Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain: “The Republicans do know that he’s darker than Barack Obama…but whiter on the inside.” Lopez also half-jokingly hinted that the Tea Party was racist after host Steve Doocy mentioned […] October 7th, 2011 | Tags: George Lopez, Herman Cain, Lawrence O'Donnell, Martin Bashir, Samuel L. Jackson, segregation, Viet Nam | Category: Hollywood, Progressives, Racism, Saul Alinsky, Socialism, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
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