Just not first. The Founders were all wealthy men by the standards of the day. But they were neither wealthy nor powerful by the standards of the peerage class, the aristocracy, which arrived by appointments from the King once the American colonies…
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Teaching Kids About America, a Beginning
In the “Taking Back our Schools” Department, we should have figured out by now we need to be more face-to-face about the changes we want to see returned to our public schools. We’re outlining a teaching program at VeteransTales.org, “Vets…
The Nature of the Dark Side
The Private Life is Dead Remember Commander Strelnikov in the film classic, “Dr Zhivago” (1965)? He was the intellectual communist who had turned into a Red military commander in the civil war that followed the October Revolution. His comment “the private…