Much to the surprise of many, the world did not end on Jan. 1, 1000. And for the next 1,000 years humanity kept busy discovering new corners of the world, fighting among itself, inventing things, and finding new ways to make money. 1000...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today national park advocates in West Virginia and across the country celebrated approval of a federal grant for purchase of private lands inside the recently expanded boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historical PaWASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today national park advocates in West...
WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senators Kennedy, Biden, Rockefeller, Levin, and Reed today sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, requesting that the intelligence community WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senators Kennedy,...
Pleasant Grove has some big friends helping it try to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to bar a church from placing a monument in a city park, even if other monuments with religious themes are already there. Among those filing friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Pleasant...
South Jersey's Rep. Robert E. Andrews said he would challenge incumbent Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg in the June 3 Democratic primary, setting off a civil war which pits North and South Jersey political machines against each other. Andrews put together a coalition which included his own South Jersey base as...
David Kuntz, also a member of SCSC, tells us: "The U.S. Civil War was extensively documented in 3D by such well-known photographers as Matthew Brady." Now high resolution digital versions of literally thousands of Civil War images, both flat and 3D, are available to the public for free through the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] February 25, 1870-- Hiram R. Revels, minister, politician, became the first Black senator in the U.S. Congress on this day. A Republican legislator from Mississippi, he served from Feb. 25,1870, to March 3,1871. A native of Fayetteville, NC, Revels was born of African and...
Historic photos of Washington, D.C. Ed. by Matthew Gilmore and Andrew Brodie Smith. Turner Publishing Co. 2007 205 pages $39.95 Hardcover F195 Historians formerly with the District of Columbia Public Library furnish text and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE MID 1960s, Congress passed a series of extraordinary laws intended to guarantee the civil liberties and voting rights of black people with the clear purpose of ensuring their regrettably long-deferred entry into the mainstream of American life. Shortly afterwards, Congress enacted another remarkable bill...
Over the past few weeks, like many people, I have been following the situation in Jena, La., very closely. And I must say, the racial powder keg that exploded in this small southern town reminds me of how far our nation still has to go in improving race relations. Make...
Fill in the letter of the correct answer for each question. 1. Who recently reported to Congress about the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq? A George W. Bush B John McCain C David Petraeus D Robert Wexler ...
The general who leads American forces in Iraq and the U.S. ambassador go before Congress today to testify on the administration's efforts to bring stability to a war-ravaged nation WASHINGTON -- Some former colleagues call Ryan Crocker "our T.E. Lawrence." Like the famed British diplomat who...
WASHINGTON -- When President Bush gives Congress and the nation his status report on Iraq this week, he is likely to cast the unpopular war in grand terms, as a long-haul, strategic investment in a better Middle East. His evidence that Iraq is worth the gamble...
Encouraged by successes in its winter-spring campaign to stop funding for the Iraq war. a coalition of antiwar groups is organizing another round of sit-in demonstrations in the home offices of U.S. senators and congressmen and congresswomen through the end of September. The chief organizer of the "Occupation...
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday proposed changes in the foreign intelligence wiretap law that would make it easier for U.S. spy agencies to eavesdrop on phone and e-mail conversations between foreigners outside the United States. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller,...
Liberals who favor withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq believe the situation there is relatively straightforward: We are enmeshed in a civil war, a deeply rooted sectarian conflict the outcome of which matters little to the U.S. Disengaging is the only way we can engage the real enemy-al Qaeda and other...
WASHINGTON - From the federal Department of Unintended Consequences: When Congress finally changes a law dating from the Civil War to aid the nation's veterans but it leads to a regulation that might have the opposite effect, who's to blame? The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a proposed...
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's foreign minister warned on Monday that a quick American military withdrawal from the country could lead to civil war and the collapse of the government, as pressure on the Bush administration for a pullout grows. Attacks in Baghdad killed 13 people as prominent Shiite...
AIDS shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's a modern-day epidemic. Nations that can contribute to the fight should do so out of a moral obligation. But some cynics say President Bush's latest request of Congress to double the funding of the U.S. global AIDS program to $30...
The Ceding of Power William J. Soter Dorrance Publishing Inc. 701 Smithfield Street, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 0805972412, $16.00 www.dorrancebookstore.com THE CEDING OF POWER: HAS CONGRESS ABDICATED ITS WAR-MAKING POWERS is a call to action for citizens who want...
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