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• MONEY: Another Silver Squeeze? The Hunt Brothers Haunt Again !!

  

  The Hunt brothers, William Herbert and Nelson Bunker, testify before Congress in 1981 on their famous silver corner.[Don't miss the contest at the bottom of thi... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Happy Holidays

  While I'm away the next few days, have a very happy Passover, Easter, Spring Break, NHL playoffs, family visit, day off, or wherever else life takes leads. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Civil War 150th Anniversary -- Quick Reality Check

  

  Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant (sitting third from right) with his staff at Cold Harbor, Virginia, where Grant would lose 7,000 soldiers killed or wounded... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: Government Shutdowns - Who Dreamed up This Crazy Idea?

  

  Jimmy Carter (above) and his Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti (right), authors of the modern government shutdown.In all the drama and commotion last week... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: Some Thoughts Watching Congress Debate the Government Shutdown.

  

  Mark Twain with cigar.According to Mark Twain: -- "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2011 HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Blogger: Doug Leslie on Discovering Old Family Photos.

  

  Doug's mom, Gail Bradford, standing between her parents Wheat and Maude Yett Bradford. Doug is the cute little kid standing in front. [Doug Leslie, a loyal... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• LIBYA: Don't Forget - We've Been There Before, with "boots on the Ground."

  

  Tripoli (modern Libya) and North Africa circa 1801, time of the first US invasion. "No American boots on the ground." That's what President Barack Obama promise... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2011 HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• For BASEBALL OPENING DAY: Spot the Famous Yankee.

  

  Spot the famous New York Yankee is this quick and extremely cool video about crazy taxi-cab drivers in New York City in 1928. Enjoy. (Yes, that's Harold Lloyd i... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Guest Blogger: Sally Mott Freeman on Lucretia Mott, America’s First Feminist.

  

  Lucretia (seated, second from right), the only female Quaker preacher in 1840s America, forced groups like this Philadelphia abolitionist society to admit... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Emma Goldman, Part II: The Trial

  

  Emma Goldman, mid-1890s.[For part I of this post, "Emma Goldman -- Speaking out for Free Bread, going to Jail," clich here.]The police in Philadelphia held... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Emma Goldman-- Speaking out for Free Bread, Going to Jail. PART I.

  

  Emma Goldman, seen in her police mug shot after being arrested in 1894. “Most of you left Russia, where you had a Czar who acted in as brutal a way as any man o... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Victoria Woodhull -- Speaking out for Free Love; Going to Jail.

  

  Victoria Woodhull -- in typical radical pose for the 1870s: no bonnet, no shawl, and short-cut hair. Free Love: "Yes, I am a free lover. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• For Purim 2011: A Visit to New York City, 1872.

  

  Happy Purim (which starts tonight). We celebrate this Jewish holiday by giving gifts, wearing funny masks, and reading the "Megilla" or "Book of Esther."... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Guest Blogger: David Durkin on Saint Patrick’s Day in America – Where Did This...

  

  Saint Patrick's Day in New York's Fifth Avemue, 1909. What has become of “my people’s” annual national and cultural holiday, Saint Patrick’s Day? Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• On Susan B. Anthony's Trail -- Ohio's South Newbury Union Chapel

  

  The South Newbury Union Chapel in Newbury, Ohio.Last time, I told you the story of how Susan B. Anthony had one chance to vote for president of the United State... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Susan B. Anthony -- Casting Her First Vote; Going to Jail.

  

  Susan B. Anthony in 1848, as a 28 year-old school teacher in upstate New York, shortly before meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton and joining the movement for women'... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Special: Women's History Month

  

  Ms. Apolinaria Gutierrez Garrett, wife of famous frontier sheriff Pat Garrett, holding the gun he used in 1881 to kill Billy the Kid. Photo circa 1920. More on... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• For Spring: A Bicycle Ride in Paris, Circa 1900.

  

  The Paris policeman asks: "What's going on here !!"To which the people in the crowd say: "But Officer, we are admiring the pneumatic tires on this bicycle by... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Join Our FREE Mailing List

  

  We ask for your e-mail address and nothing else!! We're not nosey and we won't bug you !! Just click on the box-- Join our FREE Email Mailing Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Presidents Day Conclusion: Lessons for Barack Obama, 2012.

  

  I hope you have enjoyed our extended Presidents Day walk down memory lane with the eleven one-term presidents who failed to win re-election, from John Adams... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS