President Eisenhower

Ike and Tail Gunner Joe

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.13.2012

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Tom Alderman

Several people report they cannot forgive Eisenhower's moral and political failure to speak out and repudiate McCarthy. That is not how it went down with Ike, according to Jim Newton's excellent new biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years.

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Do You Really Think Your Vote Counts?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.02.2012

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Lloyd Chapman

Today, it doesn't really matter who the President is or who is in Congress because big corporations run our government.

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It Is What They Do With It

Shai Baitel | Posted 04.30.2012

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Shai Baitel

Movements like 'Occupy Wall Street' show how much distrust there is, particularly in these times of continuing economic crisis. But is this vitriol justified? Are all companies anti-social, selfish, and greedy?

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Pacific Standard Time At LACMA: The Untold Story

Harris Silver | Posted 01.22.2012

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Harris Silver

Pacific Standard Time is a sprawling cultural initiative with 68 major museum shows and 125 gallery exhibitions including California Design 1930-1965: 'Living in a Modern Way.'

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President Eisenhower's Vegetable Soup Recipe

The National Archives | Posted 11.01.2011

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The only five-star general ever to be elected President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower was a man of many accomplishments. That is why it shou...

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Ike's Most Prescient Insight 50 Years Ago Went Unspoken

Stanley Weiss | Posted 07.10.2011

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Stanley Weiss

The military-industrial complex phrase is nearly always quoted out of the context of the speech. Eisenhower was neither condemning nor praising the military-industrial complex. He was making a much deeper point.

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Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Rose

Wrapping nukes in a green cloak and declaring their oneness with those concerned with climate change has helped to sway public opinion. But nuclear power is really too expensive and dangerous to use.

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Fifty Years Ago...

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Lichtman

Kennedy's words may be fifty years old, but they remain just as urgent to all of us today as they were then.

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As the Dust Settles

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nigel Hamilton

So it's over. No good crying over spilt milk. Except that we never seem to learn. It happened in 1994, and although President Clinton pulled himself ...

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Google Is Doing What the Government Can't

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Winston

While federal and state governments are somewhat incapacitated, Google is proposing a $5 billion "transmission backbone" for offshore wind farms along the East Coast.

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Educating for Democracy: What's Your IQ (Ignorance Quotient) America?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel Shatzky

I believe that we as a nation must seriously examine what is causing this "IQ Ignorance Quotient" which makes us the laughing stock of many other countries and will eventually lead to our decline as a significant nation.

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The Serious Problem With the Tea Party "Philosophy"

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Winston

We know where the hub of protests against a climate will be coming from: the Tea Party. So it's worth looking at who these folks are, and the NY Times yesterday did us all a big favor by reporting on poll results of these citizens.

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"Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

While the bomb ended World War II, it also started a chain reaction that exploded into America's permanent secret security state -- with emphasis on the word 'permanent.'

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Deciding How to Decide -- Making Critical Choices

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

Michael Roberto's unambiguous, extensive and genuinely engaging audio course is like having a heavyweight advisor on hand without the $500 hourly fee.

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Generational Theft?

Alan Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alan Fein

The capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will ensure to the benefit of generations to come.

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New York's Department of Veterans' Affairs: Where's the Outrage?

Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz

Internal audits at the VA regional headquarters has revealed over half of all disability claims processed through the New York office had been illegally tampered with.

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