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On December 23, 1872, coal miners near Clearfield, Pennsylvania got into a fight with strikebreakers trying to mine coal during a strike. This minor moment in American labor history tells us a great deal about how miners defined their jobs and their rights in 1872, providing lessons to us today. In November 1872, the miners […]
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Reason to believe

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On December 22, 2017
A Dutch journalist just asked new U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra why he said there are “no go” areas in the Netherlands, where radical Muslims are setting cars and politicians on fire. Hoekstra denied it, and called the claim “fake news.” The report cut to a video clip of Hoekstra at a 2015 conference hosted by […]
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America’s Democracy Problem

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On December 22, 2017
Doug Jones’s historic Senate win changes the political landscape. But it’s ridiculous that it took a fluke win to give the Democrats even a reasonable chance of winning control of the Senate, and also ridiculous that the House is basically a toss-up with the Democrats likely to get millions more votes: Jones’s win, of course, […]

War!?!?!?!?!?

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On December 22, 2017

Sadly, World War III failed to break out in 2017, and spare us all of this miserable nonsense.  Here are some hopeful thoughts on how World War III might break out in 2018: The world has managed to m

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This is the grave of Malcolm Glazer. Born in Rochester in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents, Glazer grew up fairly poor, working in his father’s watch repair shop. Ambitious though, he took his watch repair skills, worked for the military, and saved his money. He then began investing in real estate. He became the suburban […]
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