The Nazi agent, as the senator’s ghostwriter, penned warnings that Americans should not believe “atrocity tales” about the Nazis, and that Germany po… - Rachel Maddow
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The Nazi agent, as the senator’s ghostwriter, penned warnings that Americans should not believe “atrocity tales” about the Nazis, and that Germany posed no threat to the democracies of England and France.
the cultivation of the people of the Union.” In other words, Americans had found ways — on matters of race — to use the law to justify just about anything they wanted to do. Leave the egalitarian, idealistic language on the books, but interpret that language however you need to, to justify any policy that just feels right.
Spending Freeze? (referring to remarks by John Boehner), the brand named policy of economic fundamental misunderstanding endorsed by more conservatives than any other proven policy failure on the market today
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It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, and unfair to history, to do so without recognizing that the way things turned out was not inevitable. There really was the spore of a bright, new future in 2003, and it is certainly true that Russia itself had the resources and the capability to go in another direction. That things turned out as they did is a tragedy, a sprawling but explicable tragedy. And it is not Russia's alone.
