The Associated Press distributed an interesting story today recapping the history of nationalization efforts in the United States.
It provides some context to the General Motors situation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. assumption of a controlling interest in General Motors Corp. isn’t the first time the government has nationalized a company or an industry. It has taken […]

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Seventy years ago, on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, a wave of anti-Jewish rioting in Germany and Austria ushered in the period of intense, overt oppression that led to the Nazis’ systemic murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust from 1939 to 1945.
On ”Kristallnacht,” Jews were attacked, their busineses ransacked and more than 1,000 synogogues damaged. The anniversary was marked […]

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New concerns about an old threat
In the years following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Western officials have been increasingly concerned about the possible development and use of small, portable nuclear devices.
A small nuclear weapon, or a so-called “dirty bomb,” in which nuclear material is combined with a conventional explosive, could be packaged in something as small […]

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The annual Civil War Living History Weekend will be held this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14, on the grounds of the Lancaster County Historical Society and  neighboring Wheatland, the home of President James Buchanan.
Re-enactors will observe the 145-year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg by conducting military drills, artillery displays and weapons demonstrations.
A live skirmish is […]

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It took President Abraham Lincoln two minutes to deliver his famous Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. The speech must have seemed all the shorter at the time, coming on the heels of a two-hour oration by Edward Everett, a noted statesman and speaker of his day.
Everett’s speech was widely praised, but is little known to the general public today. He’ll be […]

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