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… of taxing citizens. Lotteries, an essential source of income for 42 states today, helped pay for the Revolutionary War. The income tax first surfaced in the United States to pay the huge … immediate war costs. In the case of Iraq, instead of raising taxes to pay for the war, the current Bush …

… Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … you know, just how bad some of our infrastructure has become? Tom Smith   Well, you know, in general, I'll just … to transportation, we've been a big advocate of increasing the the gas tax as a sustainable, financial way to do …

… Instead, the holding is evidence of a much more tenuous commitment to a liberal sexually revolutionizing agenda.  The Court's commitment, Stein argues, was to a specific, fairly narrow, … context for their characteristics rather than conduct.  Since Boutilier was fundamentally an immigration case, the …

… They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … in the economy.  It did so, however, on behalf of big business.  Take just a few examples: Railroads were among the … So it is today in our new Gilded Age. Banks and mortgage companies, which lobbied to have regulations in their …

… They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … in the economy.  It did so, however, on behalf of big business.  Take just a few examples: Railroads were among the … So it is today in our new Gilded Age. Banks and mortgage companies, which lobbied to have regulations in their …

… theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … of state, Dean Acheson, ran a “College of Cowardly Communist Containment,” it was Nixon who radically improved … and Shatila refugee camps in 1982, is at least as unpromising as Nixon’s and Begin’s were when they came to power. …

… home the morning of Feb. 1 as the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated while reentering the earth’s atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … the human condition. After previous failures, NASA created committees to discover why they occurred. These studies …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences … on the piano to an admiring public, and published several compositions. Among these were his four-movement piano trios … ways.  Critics reacted cordially to the new work. But since that night in 1800, several have reevaluated the First …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … monstrous infamy that is antisemitism. But it is useless, completely useless.” However, Lipstadt stops short of … through the film. As she runs past a sandwich board advertising a newspaper’s summation of the verdict—“he …

… to describe the legacy of loss. Although the Holocaust has come to be widely commemorated in the United States, and around the world, its … scholarly analysis results in a work that is nuanced and sincere. As she intended, it is an open-ended study that …

… religious liberals were corrupting the Christian faith by insinuating that the Bible was nothing more than a collection … for those unfamiliar with such theory. Lienesch's comparisons of the antievolution movement to other social … the Scopes trials than the past seventy-five years combined. Given the plethora of books on Scopes, including …

… that dream, ushering in a golden future. Nothing surprising in that. Political campaigns are usually cast in the … for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … a more minimal notion of what politicians and parties can accomplish, and what they ought to be accountable for. The …

… he would die of tuberculosis in 1918. But while the assassin’s fate was settled quickly, the deaths of his prey were … lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … II Yugoslavia, he came to embody the values of socialism, becoming a people’s hero of anti-imperialism who had liberated …

… landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … build a support package for several nearly insolvent trust companies. This effort quelled market panic and made Morgan … developing philosophy of regulating financial markets and businesses. As in 2008, that election pivoted on the issue of …

… Written in 1892 by the socialist Francis Bellamy, a cousin of the radical writer Edward Bellamy, it omitted … evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … "under God" was inserted for the express purpose of endorsing religion. And that, according to the U.S. Supreme …

… enact this substantial change to Title I. This 35-year-old compensatory education legislation has failed to reach its goal of closing the achievement gap between poor and minority students … that would improve public schools. Rep. Caleb R. Layton’s comments during a debate in 1922 on a proposal to combat …

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … into a Global Climate Strike to protest government and business inaction. Organized with the help of 350.org , a … pesticides and toxic chemicals, overpopulation, nuclear fallout , the excesses of corporate expansion, and an …

… Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … but are generally held in contempt. Susannah Heschel sincerely wants this to be a controversial book that will … weight to the propaganda of the Institute; propaganda coming from the pulpit calls forth far deeper resonance than …

… contested elections was normally the first order of business in every new term, both in Virginia and in other … to contested elections. When elections were questioned, common sense, rather than adherence to technicality, … and wrong initials of first names and last names were commonplace. Rather than throw out the ballots, as electoral …