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… secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal … He dragged the dead and wounded into the chopper. It lifted off to retrieve the second group, with Benavidez running … and shrapnel wounds received in that six-hour battle. Gen. William Westmoreland presented the Distinguished Service …

… or on appealing to independents? Some of those factors may come into play, yet the recent history of vice-presidential … Most recent presidential candidates have recognized that good politics, as well as good governance, requires choosing … her maverick image–without imagining her in the Oval Office. Palin did help mobilize the Republican base, but …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … historians—uncovers an interesting paradox and offers some sobering conclusions as we chart a course into … disease on a scale that we cannot imagine. Until about 300 years ago, every large-scale reversal of human fortunes …

… season brings a new round of presidential analogies and comparisons. Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama has … mentioned: William Howard Taft, an Ohio Republican who held office from 1909 to 1913. Like him, Obama has emerged as a … the largest man ever to occupy the office–at over 300 pounds–Taft presented a small, almost passive persona in …

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … to reclaim the values of the Luddites and the lessons they offer us. Who Were the Luddites? A brotherhood of … attacked threshing and other agricultural machines of the 1830s rallied under the banner of “Captain Swing,” in what …

… have peace on earth, prepare for war in space." As he takes office, we should demand a public debate on his favorite … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … boasts that it can develop computerized satellites that will tell U.S. commanders everything that is happening, at …

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … crime of transporting and possessing an unregistered sawed off shotgun, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 26 … People peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the Government for a redress of …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose … both in Congress and in the country at large, in the late 1930s, but he moved slowly, taking one step at a time, and by … on the floor of the Senate, then adjourn together to his office to drink bourbon and branch water. Since the time …

… Islamic rather than Christian, the controversy still offered hope that Americans of different faiths – or of no … citizens to celebrate this week,” she indicated that no comparable proclamations for, say, Alaska’s Jews or Muslims … in terms of tolerance of diverse faiths were Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and William Penn’s Pennsylvania. …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … in military capacities not only as artists. A particularly good example of this can be found in chapter five, where … for military men (whether they be common foot soldiers or officers) to record their own impressions and experiences …

… force, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. But rather than backing off the United States committed itself to war. In the case of North Korea, though, … defused their fear and earned decades of international good will. The cost of humanitarian aid to North Korea will …

… of the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … incident (362 dead miners). Federal regulators and mine officials like to point to the broad trend toward improved …

… Russia’s first attempt at Revolution in 1905, Engelstein offers thoughtful analysis of the Great War, 1917, and the … In February 1917 , the legacy of collective militancy combined with general economic crisis to produce a general … Engelstein provides a thoughtful narration of events and it will appeal to both specialists in the field of Russian …

… is loose in the land, according to Santorum, and he has offered himself as the only man capable of exorcising the … in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … Catholicism which insists on the “teaching authority” of bishops and popes — has just as much contempt for Protestants. …

… of a panel of lay Roman Catholics appointed by the bishops to oversee their handling of the church’s sex abuse … scandal. Frustrated by a few unrepentant prelates, Keating compared their conspiratorial behavior to that of the Mafia. … “To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; …

… sauce and baked yams, then finished the whole thing off with a big slice of pumpkin pie. That was our very first … the first Thanksgiving occurred on the Rio Grande on April 30, 1598, four centuries ago, a few miles downstream from … Thanksgiving.” For 136 years, Thanksgiving has been a day commemorated across America. It gives us a moment to recall …

… by a local religious leader, and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … of a single whale or monster they can fill between 250 and 300 carts. After they have put the meat and fat into vast …

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which … graves of the Union dead on November 19, 1863. “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” he … range of political views, despite what candidates for office might sometimes imply. When pressed, most would …

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … movement really picked up on this idea. So people like William F. Buckley and Robert Taft started using this … necessarily that you're the bad guy anymore. You can be the good guy like Teddy Roosevelt when he said, I'm in this …

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … as sympathetic to Nazi ideals. Part of Austria's Nazi past will also be unearthed in the coming weeks in the trial of … property and the use of Jews as slave laborers during the 1930s and '40s, but on the whole they have been able to shift …

… are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … Later, Oman benefitted from facilitating the transport of goods between European colonies in India and Indonesia and … networks at this time, with Denmark existing as a drop-off point for Chinese and Indian goods, which were then …

… patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … Smeerenburg emerged as a fleshy El Dorado, complete with shops, bakeries, and even a casino and brothel. Smoke … centered on the famed Kiruna mines and the consequent 300-mile Malmbanen railroad. Commercial mining of …