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Should American History Incorporate the Confederacy?

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, Robert Ford, St. Louis, Farmington High School, Racism, Politics, South Carolina, Confederate Flag, Civil War, Missouri, Barack Obama, Politics News

Is it necessary to revisit the Confederacy and unabashedly accept it into the historical fold? Are post-Obama Americans willing to canonize such a bleak event?

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Sri Lanka's Tamil Rebels Face Defeat As 25 Year Bloody Battle Comes To An End

The Economist | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Sri Lankan Army, South Asia, Sri Lanka Civil War, Civil War, Asia, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka, World News

THE war in Sri Lanka, pitting the Sinhalese-dominated government against the vicious rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have b...

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Maintaining the Peace we Have in Sudan

Amb. John Danforth | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Civil War, United Nations, George W. Bush, Peace, Oil Companies, Barack Obama, Darfur, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Sudan Civil War, Kenya, Sudan, Middle East, Khartoum, Oil, Sudan People's Liberation Army, Darfur Sudan, China, World News

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed by the Sudanese government in 2005, could well collapse this year, restarting an old war and perhaps aggravating the ongoing war in Darfur.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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Historians Battle Wal-Mart Over Key Civil War Site

AP | STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Civil War, Historians, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Protest, Business News

LOCUST GROVE, Va. — Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a propos...

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Maybe the Civil War Isn't Over

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil War, Election 2008, Race, Southern Strategy, Gop, Electoral College, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

The Civil War might be over, but the War Between the States lives on. The good news is that the lingering resentments of that time might have finally lost their political power.

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The America That Can Be/The America That Has Been

William Bradley | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hawaii, Global, John McCain, Chicago, Presidential Campaign, Future, Civil War, TV Advertising, Barack Obama, Navy, First Black President, Politics News

In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.

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The Morning After

Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.

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Time For Grand Coalition Government

Lanny Davis | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Coalition, John McCain, Civil War, Coalition Government, Obama Election Day, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, Election Results, Bipartisan, Democrats, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Electoral Map, Barack Obama, Election, 1864, Voting Day, Lincoln, Electoral Votes, Obama Presidency, Electoral College, Obama President, Presidential Election, Electoral Vote, Republicans, Voting, Politics News

The 2008 election presents another appropriate time when bipartisan unity government is needed more than ever.

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Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

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Huzzah for Governor Palin, On to Richmond! General McClellan Has Arrived in Afghanistan!

Robert Mackey | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palin Afghanistan, George McClellan, Civil War, David McKiernan, Afghanistan, Palin McKiernan, Gen. David D. McKiernan, Palin Mcclellan, Politics News

Governor Palin, I know General McKiernan, and he is no George McClellan. I hope that you can learn the difference. Some things cannot be shrugged off with a snarky wink and a winning smile.

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McClellan, McKiernan, You Know, One of Those Army Guys...

Brandon Friedman | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, George McClellan, Civil War, David McKiernan, Sex, Sarah Palin, Biden Palin Debate, Vice Presidential Debate, General McClellan, General Mckiernan, Gen. McKiernan, Palin Afghanistan, Palin Gaffe, Politics News

In most cases, this type of oversight on the part of a politician could be dismissed -- maybe even attributed to nerves. But when Afghanistan is exploding and on the verge of failure, details matter.

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Obama, Biden Storm Into Battleground Virginia

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections, Wall Street Bailout, Senator Jim Webb, George W. Bush, Barack Obama Polls, Tammi Terrell, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama Race, Ed Houck, Offthebus, Military, Kool & the Gang, Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, Obama Voters, Health Care, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Joe Biden Vp, Civil War, G.I. Bill, Hillary Clinton 2008, Joe Biden, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Virginia, Barack Obama 2008, E.T., Wall Street Crisis, John McCain 2008, U2, Military Spending, Hillary Clinton, Canvassing, Marvin Gaye, Walter Reed, Home News

"Last week 300 volunteers knocked on 10,000 doors! Even volunteers from Maryland drove down to help us. It was awesome."

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Ike Uncovers Wreck Said To Be A Civil War Schooner On Alabama Coast

AP | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Ike, Hurricane Ike, Extreme Weather, Civil War, Home News

FORT MORGAN, Ala. — When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery _ a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a...

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7 Years Later: Could Civilians Be Key to Winning the War on Terror?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

More and more people around the world are disavowing violence against civilians, and support for terrorism is drying up.

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A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.

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Wal Mart's War on America

Robert Mackey | Posted 09.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Virginia, Civil War, Business, Wal Mart Development, Economy, Business News

I received the following yesterday in my inbox, from Jim Campi, communications director of the Civil War Preservation Trust: "Stop the Wilderness Wal...

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A New Gettysburg Address

Robert Mackey | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Gettysburg Address, Politics News

How should a candidate for president articulate this vision of a better world, in an era of high energy prices, terrorism, health care issues and a host of other problems?

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The Rights of Marriage, California Style

Tom Gregory | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living

Love, West Hollywood highlights the human side of an inequality that is finally unraveling. We'll see what happens in California in the next six months -- the whole world is watching us.

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Confederate Remembrance: Senator Webb, the Confederate Soldier and the Lost Cause

Robert Mackey | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: William Faulkner, Gone With the Wind, Civil War, Jim Webb, Webb, James Webb, Politics News

The simple facts is that the individual Confederate soldier -- from the lowest economic rung and in many cases disenfranchised as the slaves were -- fought for a variety of reasons.

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The Estimated Cost of Human Life in Zimbabwe is Four Dollars!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Civil War, Abuse, Rape, Zimbabwe, Women and Children and Rape, The Elders, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections, Tsengeri, Politics News

The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.

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Liberia's Peace Women: Tribeca 2008 Remembers What the World Overlooked in 2003

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Civil War, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Africa, Liberia, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Harvard, Women Directors, Women in Africa, Politics News

How was it possible that these Liberian women had accomplished such an enormous feat without having been noticed and reported on by the news outlets I had come to know and trust?

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