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Posts tagged "Slavery"

Wash Post's Cohen: GOP Should Compromise... Like They Did With Slavery?

-By Warner Todd Huston Richard Cohen is what passes for an opinion editorialist in the Washington Post — not a learned one, just a bloviating one. Cohen’s latest, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” is at the same time as self-loathing as it is historically stupid. Not only does this nonsense Cohen ladled out upon us... Read more »
By publiusforum,
May 11, 2011 at 10:43 am
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Gov't Union Chief Says Working for Gov't is Like 'Slavery'

-By Warner Todd Huston In yet another incident that goes to show why government unions should be made illegal as they once were, we find a government union chief so enraged that he and his members might have to tighten their budget belts — like every other American has had to — that he exploded... Read more »
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April 8, 2011 at 10:35 am
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New Book Drags Abe Lincoln's Race Ideas Back Up

-By Warner Todd Huston No president’s views of race relations have elicited more spirited conversation than Abe Lincoln’s and his complex views are again the subject of conjecture. A new book about Lincoln’s ideas on sending America’s negro population to another country, a policy called “colonization,” has been penned by a researcher at George Mason... Read more »
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March 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm
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Called on the Carpet: Obama's New WH Rug Muffs History

-By Warner Todd Huston He grew up in Indonesia, his father was a Kenyan, and he’s been fighting the perception that he isn’t much of an American since he became a nationally known entity. Unfortunately for President Obama, his redecoration of the Oval Office is not helping by making him seem just as ignorant about... Read more »
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September 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm
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La Amistad: How the AP Commonly Muffs American History

-By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press has a famous book on grammar and style that its news writers use to govern their work, a book that is also popular with the whole American news industry. It has served as a standard for many years. The AP, however, seems to have no style or rule... Read more »
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March 31, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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