One episode typically missing from the “terrorism” narrative altogether involves CIA meddling in Indonesia. But what does Indonesia have to do with the growth of anti-Americanism among Muslims?
The left tends to celebrate laborers as producers. The right tends to favor business owners as producers. The political compromise–and it still goes on today–was to cartelize both.
During the Republican presidential debate of 11 August, Senator Rick Santorum’s comments suggested he may have need a more correct U.S. History textbook.
Civilization, like truth, cannot be forced on minds unwilling or unable to receive it. Least of
all can it be forced by the sword’s point and the taskmaster’s lash.
When the British commander woke up the next morning, he saw the American cannon pointed at his ships. “Why,” said he, “the rebels have done more in one night than my whole army could have done in a week.”
There is a story of a giant who was so tall that at one long step he could go more than twenty miles; but “Brother Jonathan” can beat that, for in the seven steps he has taken since the Revolution he has gone over three thousand miles.
After nine years’ fighting, Caractacus, the leader of the Britons, was carried in chains to Rome. The brave chief refused to beg for life or liberty. “Can it be possible,” said he, as he was led through the streets, “that men who live in such places as these envy us our wretched hovels!”
Tacitus, the Roman historian, says Caesar “did not conquer Britain; he only showed it to the Romans.”
There are three very interesting things about gold… For these and other reasons most people think that gold is a very handsome metal, and the more they see of it, especially if it is their own, the better they are pleased with it.