And I guess I’ll have to give the usual disclaimer next: while I didn’t vote for Trump and see him as a narcissist with a personality disorder, I don’t believe that everything he has done or will do is necessary reprehensible. (I have several friends who think that.) For example,...
why did stalin become leader of the ussr? WhydidStalinbecomeleaderof theUSSR? Lenin‚ theleaderof Russia died from ill health in 1924‚ without choosing a successor‚ but howdidStalin‚ one of the least likely people to take over becomeleaderof theUssr? His role as General Secre...
In 1947, Truman became the first president to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Truman said, “It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in the long history of our country’s efforts to...
For example, the way that Trump uses fear and exaggeration to paint a picture of a dire situation—that only he sees and only he can fix—is truly a misuse of facts and stretching of the truth to convince people to vote FOR him.How ironic that the visual rhetorician placing and choosing...
Anthony Kennedy was the 5th vote to uphold Roe, although he did overturn partial birth abortion. The 5 Catholics upheld the 2nd Amendment last year, as well as freedom on speech (kept a cross in a national cemetery), and are the only thing standing between us and pure Communism. When ...
How Would Jesus Vote? Jesus’s truths and teachings are timeless, and indeed much the same principles are taught in the world’s other religions and spiritual traditions. We must not lose sight of them in both our individual and national lives. Although Jesus did not get into politics, his...
” Stalin responded by calling Wallace’s policies “a fruitful foundation… for the development of international cooperation.” In the end, Wallace’s Progressives gained just 2.37 percent of the popular vote, while it would later be revealed that Harry Dexter White, Wallace’s proposed Vice ...
Scattered border skirmishes from 1948-50 kept tensions simmering.In 1948, the United States called on theUnited Nationsto sponsor a vote for Koreans to determine their future government. When the North refused to participate, the South formed its own government in Seoul under the anti-communist ...
Now we’re both people who have essays published in the New York Times Opinion column. The logic of “non-consensual co-platforming” would be that the editors of that column did a bad by putting me, a known undesirable, in the Opinion pages where there is also a Woke purist, obviously...
for the public good instead of for the selfish reasons encouraged by capitalism resulted in Stalin murdering over 20 million people (New York Times), Mao murdering over 45 million people (Washington Post), and countless other people living in poverty and oppression. Despite all of this, many ...