"There is no terrorist group or groups and no nation or nations that can overcome us if we do not destroy ourselves by endless adventuring around the globe sponsored by Bush and his successors. If we engage in those adventures our people will be ever more split."
On William Jennings Bryan and the dispute over American imperialism that began with the Spanish American War...
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More on Bush's Sanity and the crock we refer to as The Iraq Study Group Report.......
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"...larger even than the age discrimination issue --is the question of whether institutional loyalty counts for anything in universities as they try to make themselves more “businesslike.� Two readers respond to the post, "Social Justice at Brandeis' This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com.
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The sensible thing to do in Iraq is to divide the country into three areas corresponding to religious preponderance, give people a few months to move if they want... and then get the hell out of the country. But only a few of the Washingtonites and pundits are for this course of action. For it too would enable a rapid departure from Iraq... a rapid change in accordance with the electoral dictate of November 7th. And change in accordance with November 7th... is not what is desired by the people who run this country and want to pretend that November 7th never happened. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com.
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Why was Mary Sullivan, the woman's softball coach for 32 years, fired a year before she could begin receiving retirement benefits, and with no medical insurance? Wasn't Brandeis s founded by a people who have long claimed social justice to be their special provenance, and partly because these people were themselves being denied social justice at other universities?
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When Schembechler became Michigan’s coach in 1969, its glory years under Fielding Yost and Fritz Crisler were long gone. The 107,501-seat Michigan Stadium had seldom been filled in recent seasons, and the Michigan band was finding fewer occasions to hail the maize and blue with the marching song “The Victors.� ... But on November 22, 1969, Schembechler put his stamp on a new day for Michigan with a 24-12 victory against top-ranked and undefeated Ohio State and Coach Woody Hayes, his former mentor. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com
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