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Where We Are
Posted Sunday, January 22, at 3:00 PM Three primaries/caucuses, three different winners. So what has this primary season told us so far? Not much, to be honest. I still stand behind my original prediction that Mitt Romney will be the eventual nominee, but it will take longer than I had originally thought it would. Conservative voters still do not have a candidate that they can get behind...
Observations on the Iowa Caucus Mitt Romney not surprisingly won the Iowa Caucus last night. What was surprising by most involved was the late surge by Rick Santorum. For most of the lead up to the first election of 2012 he had stayed in the single digits in national as well as state polls. ...
Done I have realized that as long as a certain blogger and certain bloggers are going to continue to be able to slander anyone they want with no repercussions whether it be absolute tasteless and dishonest lies about the President of the United States or claiming that I hate America because I criticize the government when the need is there that this blog is no longer a place for me...
The American InJustice System By this point many of you have probably heard the name Troy Davis. If not, here is a quick run down: Troy Davis was convicted in 1989 for killing an off-duty police officer (Mark MacPhail) in Georgia. He was convicted with little evidence actually pointing at him being the killer. ...
A Better Way There has been a lot of talk recently in political circles about "shared sacrifice". It is a noble idea, everyone shares in sacrifice in order to help the country get out of the recession that it has been stuck in since mid-2008. There is just one small (actually it is pretty huge) there are not a lot of people who believe in "shared sacrifice" and even less that will participate in the idea...
Remembering This Day By the time I woke up on September 11, 2001 the towers had already been hit. I was living in Lincoln at the time. I, my brother, and three of our friends had just moved to Lincoln a few months earlier. I walked downstairs to see that my brother and one of our roommates were sitting in the living room. I asked them why they were home (they both worked the day shift so there was no reason for them to be home), all they did was simply point at the screen...
Labor Day With Labor Day fast approaching I thought it would be a good idea to look at the history of Labor Day and why we, as Americans, celebrate this day. The first Labor Day was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York and it was put on by the Center Labor Union...
The West Memphis Three Today, the West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Jason Baldwin) were released from prison. In case you are not familiar with the WM3 the three were convicted of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 5, 1993...
What's All the Hubbub The Ames Straw Poll (commonly referred to as the Iowa Straw Poll) was held the other day and in a close race Michelle Bachmann came out as the winner. The official results looked like this: 1. Bachmann - 4,823 2. Ron Paul - 4,671 3. Tim Pawlenty - 2,293...
MTV turns 30 On August 1, MTV (better known to those of us that grew up in the 1980s as Music Television) turned 30. You would not know that had you turned on MTV at all that day or gone on the website. If you wanted to see anything about the 30th Anniversary you would have had to tune into VH1 Classic, MTV2, or gone to VH1s webpage...
The Defaulting of America As both political parties in Washington continue to play politics with our money we continue to come closer and closer to our federal government defaulting. The impasse is quite simple, but the solutions offered up actually have nothing at all to do with the problem. In order for the federal government not to default that need to raise the debt ceiling...
Is Racism Dead? There has been a lot of talk over the last few years over the question of racism. Some believe that yes racism is dead, while others, naturally, believe that racism is not dead. There is also another category of people that believe that there has never truly been racism except by those people that believe that there are races of people. ...
What the Fourth Means to Me Today is the Fourth of July, the 235th anniversary of a group of colonists standing together and declaring their independence from England. It is a day full of excitement, fireworks, and most importantly family. My family has always anticipated the Fourth more than any other holiday outside of Christmas, and for good reason. It is a time of remembrance. It is a time to remember those that came before us that fought to ensure us the rights that at times we take for granted...
Mayberry: America's Hometown This paper has been moved to another site.
Popular Culture in the study of History Cultural History is a relatively new field of study in history. It is so new that there is no widely accepted starting point for the field. Some put it sometime in the 1970s, while others pinpoint it directly to the releasing of the essay Interpreting the French Revolution by François Furet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_history) in1978. Whenever it's actual start day was it is fast becoming a very interesting field...
The Professional Historian There has been a lot of talk over the past week on this website about history. I started the conversation and it evolved (or devolved according to your definition from there). There are a lot of armchair historians in today's society. What I mean by armchair historian is a person who knows their history but has never studied it. A person who knows their history but adds their own personal or political ideology to that history...
Happy Father's Day I just wanted to send a special Happy Father's Day message to my dad, Mike Hendricks. He taught me a lot about life and to always think for myself. The greatest gift a dad can ever give to his son is his undying attention and love and in my opinion my dad was the best at it...
Why We Repeat History There is a saying that those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it. I fully believe in this saying and is a part of the reason why I love and respect history. There can be many ways to look at historical events and what they mean but the history itself never changes. ...
Media Fail I have often stated whether on my blog or in comments that I fully believe that the media, for the large part, has been failing us for a long time. I do not, however, believe it to be failing us because of supposed political bias. For me, the media is fairly balanced in it's reporting on straight news. When it comes to politics that is often a different story...
Good Bye ... For Now I'm done. My life at this time is just too full for me to maintain my blog the way I would like and to put out, what I consider, quality work. So, for the time being, I am logging off my blog. To those that supported me thank you and keep the good fight going. To those who did not, thank you for always giving me good fodder...
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