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From my Leadership Program of the Rockies Advisory Board colleague, Ted Vail... Ever wonder about the origin of Memorial Day? It is much more than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer. To many people, especially the nation's t… more »

Over at the Gang of Four blog, I’ve had a reader tell me that I should not have used the word fascism because fascists have killed a lot of people. I had another say I didn’t explain myself well enough in response to him. So, not just for the edifica… more »

My friend "The Freak" offered the following as a comment to a prior blog post linking to two articles about economic fascism on the rise in America. I thought it was worth having its own posting rather than just being a comment. -------------------… more »

Over at Pajamas Media, Michael Leeden has written two must-read short articles. First, "We Are All Fascists Now" explains how what we are witnessing in America is more correctly called economic fascism than socialism. It's a convincing argument and I… more »

This excellent piece in the WSJ by two professors of economics is just the latest scholarship explaining how FDR's New Deal policies kept us in the Great Depression for longer than we otherwise would have been. see "How Government Prolonged the Depres… more »

Thanks to Patrick for sending this along... In the following video from 1992, VP Candidate Al Gore blasts President George H. W. Bush for not being nearly aggressive enough in dealing with a "murderous and vicious" Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and in par… more »

In an increasingly small world, you don't often hear of scientists finding something new or something they've been searching for for decades, but here's just such a story: "Herod's Tomb Found at Site Near Jerusalem, Archaeologists Say", Bloomberg News… more »

Thanks to my (Australian) wife, Kristen, for sending this link along...for all the history buffs out there! Map proves Portuguese discovered Australia: new book Reuters via Yahoo, 3/21/07 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070321/ts_nm/australia_map_dc more »

re "Resistance on side of right" (Letter to Boulder Daily Camera, 1/27/07) http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jan/27/no-headline-27elet/ Cord Macguire’s letter describing his support of the “Iraqi resistance”, i.e. murderers of mostly civilians, re… more »

Thanks to Christopher for sending this along This news story puts into further perspective Jimmy Carter's most recent ant-Semitic book, about which I have recently posted a couple of articles. The article further shows, or at least implies, that Ca… more »