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Yesterday we heard part 1 of my interview with William Kleinknecht about Ronald Reagan’s economic legacy and how it relates to the financial state of the country today. William Kleinknecht is a veteran reporter and crime correspondent for the Newark Star-Ledger. He is the author of “The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal …

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President Obama has come under increasing criticism from conservatives for some of his economic policies. Reminiscent of the campaign-era rhetoric from the right, Obama is accused of being a socialist from Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh, and a good portion of the right-wing blogosphere. One blogger warned: “Personal freedom, individual liberties and self-determination are evaporating as fast …

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U.S. Firebombing of Tokyo

Back in the day on March 10th, 1945, the United States concluded its firebombing of Tokyo, Japan. Occurring during the final months of World War II, the U.S. Air Force deployed more than three hundred low-level B-29 bombers beginning in the late night hours of March 9th. In what many historians note …

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On Thursday, the California Supreme Court finished hearing arguments over the validity of Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage. Many of the Court’s judges, who previously overturned state laws banning same-sex marriage last May, now seem favorable to upholding last November’s vote. The marriage ban passed with 52.3 percent support of Californians. Opponents of the …

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Twenty years ago, one of the most lionized American presidents left office: Republican Ronald Reagan, whose legacy conservatives cite as quintessentially in favor of working Americans. Reagan still enjoys vast popularity in the American imagination, despite the fact that his economic policies, shorthandedly referred to as Reaganomics, set in motion today’s financial collapse. In the …

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A car accident last week in Zimbabwe took the life of Susan Tsvangirai, the Prime Minister’s wife, and caused the PM himself some injury. A spokesperson for Tsvangirai’s party, Movement for Democratic Change, confirmed that a truck collided with the PM’s car just outside the capital, Harare. The tragedy comes only a month after …

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Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Capitalism’s Remedy.

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Pancho Villa Rides on Columbus, New Mexico

Back in the day on March 9th, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led a cross-border raid on Columbus, New Mexico. In what was the first attack on U.S. soil since 1812, hundreds of Villistas destroyed much of the business district of the border town in the early morning hours. …

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The International Criminal Court earlier this week issued an arrest warrant for Omar Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan. He is charged with ordering his troops and the so-called Janjaweed militia to rape, murder and torture people in the Darfur region of Sudan. While there was no charge of genocide it’s the first time the Hague has issued a …

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More than forty years ago, nine conscientious Catholics took hundreds of draft files from a selective service office in Catonsville, Maryland and burned them with homemade napalm. As a result of this act of civil disobedience that took place during the height of the Vietnam War, the nine were convicted during a subsequent …

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