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National Archives Digs Deep for New Civil War Exhibit
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 27) -- There are no tattered wool uniforms or rusty rifle muskets in "Discovering the Civil War," a new exhibit opening Friday at the National Archives. But the paper relics that make up most of the display are in some ways much easier to grasp. Take the 1862 letter from seamstresses at the U.S. Arsenal in Philadelphia to the secretary of war. In it, they complain about losing work to a contractor who paid them half what the government did and note that many were sole wage earners because their husbands were away in the Army. ...
'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave
By David Moye - AOL News(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth Fournier, but her customers know her as "the Green Reaper," for her expertise on green funerals, a movement gaining significant traction in the funeral business. Courtesy of Elizabeth Fournier Oregon-based funeral home director Elizabeth Fournier works on an urn made of ...
Tourists Unmoved By Confederate History Month
By Jennifer Martinez - AOL News(April 22) -- He did it to promote tourism, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said after his decision to recognize April as Confederate History Month in the commonwealth drew sharp blowback. Now, with the month winding down, the question can be explored: Has McDonnell's move provided the boon he pledged? At least for this year, the answer is no, according to anecdotal evidence from some members of Virginia's tourism industry. One of the obvious potential beneficiaries of McDonnell's proclamation would have been the Museum of the Confederacy, located in Richmond. Its visitors can see the frock coat ...
Is Honduras Heading Toward a Civil War?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Carl, I'm afraid Act 5 is here.When you and I wrote about the whole Honduras debacle back when it began in June, we both teased out the humorous aspects of this tragi-comedy: the midnight exile of the Latin American president in his pajamas . . . his little-engine-that-could vow to return from Costa Rica . . . Hugo Chavez stepping in as the heavy. Add to the mix all the racism, matrimonial dysfunction, big oil and imperialism circulating behind the scenes. As you said then, there was something for everyone. ...
Abe Lincoln's Birthday: What's His Legacy?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe past is continually but a second away from being born, and how one portrays it can make all the difference as to how the future will be lived. As witnessed by the current battle over FDR's response to the Great Depression (the Left wants to give the New Deal programs credit for solving the crisis, while the Right is a attempting, what seems to me, something of a revision), history is often but a rope on which two conflicting sides stand at opposite sides and pull. No figure in our country's lifespan has played that rope more than Abraham Lincoln, and on this, the day that "Honest Abe" ...
Russian Predicts U.S. Breakup by 2010
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRussian professor Igor Panarin has been predicting the eventual breakup of the United States in the year 2010 for more than a decade. And as the zero hour approaches, and the worldwide economic down slide intensifies, Panarin's prediction is being treated with more seriousness, especially in Russia. Panarin claims that recently he has been interviewed about his theory twice a day, primarily for Russian state media.Panarin says that the odds are better than even that the U.S. will not make it through the next election cycle. "There's a 55-45% chance that a disintegration will occur," he ...
BCS Picture Clears Up Slightly, But Somebody Can Still Mess It Up for Everyone
By Mark Hasty - AOL NewsAs if anybody needed any proof that college football is completely batcakes, here it is. As we head into the final weekend, where all six BCS conferences will be playing, we don't really know who will grab the ten big-money bowl bids. There's a team in control of its own destiny and, in a way, everyone else's. No, not either of those two. Alabama's getting a BCS bid no matter what. Florida only misses out if it loses to the Citadel, or to Florida State, and then loses to the Crimson Tide in Atlanta. Color that scenario unlikely.Not one of those three either. There's a limit of two teams per ...
Ron Paul's War
By David Knowles - Politics DailyRon Paul appeared on "Meet the Press" over the weekend, and gave voice to a sentiment scarcely heard in American politics. He claimed that the Civil War was unnecessary, and that Lincoln "never should have gone to war" to stop slavery. A better approach would have been for the federal government to simply purchase freedom for all of the slaves in the country. Watch:Of course, such a program sounds more than a little strange coming from a man who is so mistrustful of government that he wants to abolish the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Reserve, and ...
Hot Seat: Lincoln Wrong to Fight Civil War?
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