or we would hire people who are out of law school. All those things are true. But we've also had I'm not sure if he's still with us, a world famous rock and roll guitarist, professional athletes, ballet
In the 1600s, Oliver Cromwell was a prominent figure in England's Civil War and in the theocracy established after the war ended. Learn about the English Civil War and the rise of Cromwell's theocracy, review an introduction to Cromwell, his role as Lord Protector, and some of the laws ...
Suddenly, in early 2013 [..] all the Alawites involved in the militias of the regime, some were my friends […] they started to say that the people of Banyas were planning for something big. I said: “What are they planning for? Come on, the demonstrations have stopped, nothing is h...
Ahmadinejad did not imply the destruction of Israel either. Both men were speaking rhetorically about a hated regime they both believed had not the moral grounds and political viability to sustain a state. What would bring about their
An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for California who became trapped by snow in the Sier...
So why is it called "critical theory"? Well, the readers of that stuff (German philosophy), in that time (the 20th century), were hypersensitive to the words of Karl Marx, and so thinking of Marx they perhaps recalled afamous letter of 1843 written by the twenty-something Karl Marx. Th...
What did Aristotle believe was the best form of government? a. Constitutional republic b. Theocracy c. Monarchy d. Oligarchy. What were self views of socrates? Did Socrates develop the laws of associationism? Who is regarded by many as the first philosopher (Russell, 1945)?...
Perhaps the most famous pilgrim settlement in the United States, Plymouth was settled by a group who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower. They wereoriginally bound for Virginiabut got off course, and since winter was approaching and they were running out of supplies, they settled in Ma...
My friend didn’t make the reference, but I will, a la the famous quote attributed to Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Perhaps not all political debates are good vs evil and not all issues, thankfully, involve evil as...
Some people actually wondered if the letter from "Luther Lovelace" (son of a famous movie star, perhaps?) was authentic. I didn't think about it as I worked on it, but it really shows how hard it is to lampoon a real-life cartoon. The essence of a joke is stretching reality till ...