The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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By Barth on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 6:32pm |
Yes, the description of one's political opponents or their tactics as reminiscent of Hitler is tiresome and almost always extreme. Hitler's rise to power in a nation that had centuries of issues relating to who its people were and what...
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"One nation ... indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

By Barth on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 8:51pm |
When Francis Bellamy wrote these words toward the end of the nineteenth century, his goal was not so much to present a loyalty oath to the nation itself, as an homage to "the republic for which [the flag] stands." What...
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Ch-ch-ch-changes

By Barth on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 3:50pm |
Two items amidst the many arriving at all of our homes today include historical lessons, and support for those who preach that we learn from the past.The New York Times Book Review discusses the so-called "court packing"  which President Roosevelt...
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The War May Have Finally Ended

By Barth on Sat, 03/27/2010 - 3:18pm |
When it was finally over, and the President and Speaker showed the country how it feels when it is able to at least begin to tackle a real problem, my 23 year old daughter said that this was the first...
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What we Stand For: The Life's Work of Edward Moore Kennedy

By Barth on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 1:59am |
His brother inspired many of us into lives of public service, but he was brutally taken from us before he could lead us in those endeavors. President Kennedy's two brothers did what they could, but only one survived the...
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A Long Hard Road

By Barth on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 2:44pm |
There is so much at stake this weekend and, surely, this will go into next week with Passover looming at the end as, perhaps, a real deadline. Be prepared, my friends: We will see the worst of our politics in...
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What We Stand For: Guest Blogger The President of the United States

By Barth on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 11:49pm |
This has been an historic week, and, of course, the history has not been made quite yet. A guy who likes to pontificate in this forum and wants to be part of this history, but needs also to do what...
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What We Stand For: Guest Blogger Lyndon B Johnson

By Barth on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 11:56pm |
This is the week it will happen. It is not a final step, anymore than social security was, or medicaid and medicare, but it is a big step. A huge step. It is impossible to post every day and do...
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What We Stand For: Guest Blogger John F. Kennedy

By Barth on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 11:33pm |
What if, in what could be the most important week for the United States Congress since the mid 1960s enactment of medicaid, and the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, a major network evening news program led its broadcast with the...
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What We Stand For: Guest Blogger Harry S Truman

By Barth on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 11:43pm |
Yesterday, in the the three locations where these Barthogems appear, usually only on weekends, a portion of FDR's Four Freedoms speech was published, showing that less than a year from our entry into World War II, our greatest president was...

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