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The Great Depression and College Life »

By Jonathan Bean | Thursday March 12, 2009 at 4:20 PM PST | 1 Comment

With all the world abuzz with talk of the dreaded “D” word, this post discusses sources for the study of college during hard times. Nearly every college or university has an archive with records dating back to the 1930s. With modern scanning technology, it becomes easy to upload to your own online storage site...
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Tags: American History, Bailouts, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Constitution, Economics, Education, Employment, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Labor, Money and Banking, Nationalization, Personal Liberty, Politics, Presidential Power, Regulation, Taxation, Welfare

Confronting “Government Intelligence”? »

By David J. Theroux | at 2:00 PM PST | 1 Comment

Confronting “government intelligence”? HT: Julie Sheppard

Tags: Entertainment, Fascism, Humor, Military, Nationalization, Presidential Power, Socialism, The State, Video, War

Hands Off My Body, Obama! »

By Mary Theroux | at 9:09 AM PST | 4 Comments

OK, I admit it: I’m a woman of the baby boomer generation. My activist brother gave me a subscription to Ms. magazine as soon as it launched, and I took to heart one of the rallying cries to girls and women at the time: “Take control of our own bodies!” Sure, it was mostly...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Insurance, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, The State

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