Tag: us politics
group name: thesixties
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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April 13, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
In November, 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Milhouse Nixon in a presidential race, undprecented for its extremely narrow popular vote margin. Kennedy was elected president by a substantial electoral . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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April 30, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It is not well known but there is a secret society at work in America today, No not the Masons the Trilateralist’s or the Rand Corporation. This secret confederation . . . more
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December 21, 2006 06:22 AM EST --
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. . . . more
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
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April 04, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
From the source of my article I am sure there will be some stating that this is being blown out of proportion, or used as a propaganda tool.
While I agree that citizens have the right . . . more
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February 28, 2008 02:13 PM EST --
"The disdain and uncooperative nature that this administration has shown toward Congress... is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. . . . more
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April 28, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
No history of the 1960s is complete without Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, then in her 40s and working as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, was emboldened by her membership in the . . . more
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Popular movements have changed significantly since earlier decades -- and I'm not talking about the 60's. In the 30's and 40's and before, the labor movement was a significant power . . . more
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March 15, 2007 10:01 PM EST --
I dunno folks...maybe I had one too many at happy hour and your typical liberal rants are just amplified. But in all seriousness, it is the same old rhetoric, with nothing new. While . . . more
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . . more
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December 06, 2006 10:37 PM EST --
Robert Gates, President Bush's nominee for Secretary of Defense, made headlines yesterday when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US is not winning the war in Iraq.
Political observers . . . more
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November 06, 2007 11:39 PM EST --
America was witness Tuesday to perhaps the most outrageous act of hypocrisy by an elected official ever committed since the beginning of our Republic.
Senator Edward Kennedy, the senior Democrat . . . more
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January 21, 2007 07:42 PM EST --
The new global warming report of the International Panel on Climate Change is reported to make the case stronger, based on research and evidence, that the atmosphere is warming in substantial consequence . . . more
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October 21, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
Where are this generation's counter-culture and revolutionaries? How is it that they are standing quiet while their country's principles are trodden in the dust. Where is their protest . . . more
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August 27, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Yet another Republican protector of "Family Values" has been found to not exactly practice what he preaches. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested in June of this year and convicted of lewd . . . more
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November 13, 2006 06:21 AM EST --
Okay, not much is being said about it but here it is: If Congress impeaches Bush, and there has been quite alot of talk about this possibility, and Cheney resigns for any of a variety of reasons . . . more
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December 21, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
The next stage in the war on marijuana has been reached with the discovery of a new hybrid of marijuana in Mexico that can be grown any time of the years and is resistant to herbicides. . . . more
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