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from AIER | American Institute for Economic Research
The Case for Globalism, So-Called
The global economy seems to be coming under attack from a variety of directions. On one side, there are the reborn “democratic socialists” and other “progressives” who insist that the international capitalist system exploits workers and minority groups. On the other side, there are nationalists and other nativists who fear the loss not just of jobs but the cultural character of their societies from foreign investors and immigrants looking for new homes. The fact is, for almost everyone, everywhere, things are getting better all the time due to the greater openness of the entire globe to trade, investment, and a peaceful movement of people. We have become so used to such things that we have little or no appreciation of how relatively new all of this is in terms of the sweep of human history on planet Earth. In terms of the meaning of the “modern world” and all these changes in the human condition, modern really only means the last 200 or 300 years, out of many thousands of years of our recorded history.
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from The Archive
By the official start of the Vietnam War, the United States had long been engaged in an attempt to restrain the spread of communism. Although the Battle of Ia Drang was the first major physical conflict between U.S. and the People’s Army of Vietnam, it was the culmination of years of U.S. aid to South Vietnamese forces. Hoping to stop communism’s spread, the United States entered the Vietnam War in March 1965. 3,500 US Marines came ashore at Da Nang to aid South Vietnam in their fight against North Vietnam; their first real fight on the ground didn’t take place until November 14, 1965, when the US Army engaged in battle with the North Vietnam Army (NVA) in the Ia Drang Valley. Notable as one of the first instances in which large-scale helicopters were used for air assault, as well as B-52 strategic bombers, the battle marks a bloody initial conflict between the troops in which both sides claimed victory. Read on for an excerpt from We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
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from Church Times
Newspaper in London, United Kingdom
Roderic Dunnett hears a Zelenka Mass and other rare repertoire
HOW many festivals have emerged in this century with a Fringe that features music by Zelenka, Quantz, Finger (who, you ask), Fux, and Telemann? The Fringe that I describe is in fact integral in spirit to the five-day Brecon Baroque Festival, which lights up Mid-Wales each autumn, and features the 13-strong Brecon Baroque Orchestra and music of the 17th and 18th centuries, played on early instruments by performers including several of the finest players in the land. This festival, founded in 2006 by the violinist Rachel Podger, who is one of them, this year had the courageous title “Bohemia: From Biber to Mozart” — yet another inspired idea of the founder.
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
SATURDAY IS WHITE HOUSE MOVING DAY
The historic J.C. White House will move to its final home at the base of Tubbs Hill on Saturday. The house will be moved from 8th and Sherman to 8th and Young beginning at 6 a.m. It will serve as the centerpiece for a new state-of-the-art Museum of North Idaho.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong
Most modern critics of capitalism don't know what it is, or simply choose to ignore the data.
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from LifeZette
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.Alan Dershowitz Says Dems Are ‘Making Up Crimes,’ Just as KGB Did
All Americans, suggested the legal scholar, 'should be frightened by efforts to try to create crimes out of nothing'
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from Public Discourse
Society & Culture Website
Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids
Senator Warren, please don’t compromise what you know to be true for the sake of political expediency. Don’t hurt American families by pushing them farther and farther into the two-income trap. Most of all, please don’t create a system that penalizes moms who choose to stay home with their children.
Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids
Senator Warren, please don’t compromise what you know to be true for the sake of political expediency. Don’t hurt American families by pushing them farther and farther into the two-income trap. Most of all, please don’t create a system that penalizes moms who choose to stay home with their children.
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from RAND Corporation
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from US National Archives
The War after the War: the American Indian Fight for the Vote after WWII
On May 6, 1946, two former United State Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers, Jimmie King and Howard Nez, walked into the Shiprock Public School in New Mexico to register to vote. They were denied. Three days prior in Apache County, Arizona, the same scene played out for James Manuelito, one of the original 29 Code Talkers. At two o’clock that same day, May 3, Army veteran Watson Gibson walked into New Mexico’s McKinley County Clerk’s office and asked to be registered to vote. County clerk Eva Sabin denied him. The men who had stormed beaches throughout the Pacific during WWII were now storming local county offices for the right to vote.
The War after the War: the American Indian Fight for the Vote after WWII
On May 6, 1946, two former United State Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers, Jimmie King and Howard Nez, walked into the Shiprock Public School in New Mexico to register to vote. They were denied. Three days prior in Apache County, Arizona, the same scene played out for James Manuelito, one of the original 29 Code Talkers. At two o’clock that same day, May 3, Army veteran Watson Gibson walked into New Mexico’s McKinley County Clerk’s office and asked to be registered to vote. County clerk Eva Sabin denied him. The men who had stormed beaches throughout the Pacific during WWII were now storming local county offices for the right to vote.
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