Showing posts with label FDR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDR. Show all posts
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Imagine FDR telling Churchill in August 1941 to make peace with Hitler and fork over Britain's coal to America

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  A Day of American Infamy Bret Stephens, The New York Times ... If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf ...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Sometimes it's not the economy stupid: Headline employment under Obama didn't recover until May 2014, but he got re-elected in 2012 anyway

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 Six years and four months went by: Jan 2008-May 2014. And economic confidence actually declined from -11 in 2012 to -10 in 2014 when it did...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

It's still the party of FDR, who turned away the M.S. St. Louis in 1939 and a third of its passengers ended up murdered in the camps

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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Lying to the enemy is standard practice with Chicoms, Muslims, and Democrats

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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Obama no Reagan, no FDR: Democrat candidates for 2020 attack Obama legacy less than four years after he left office

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

Marshall Auerback: George W. Bush's naïve China Fantasy mimicked FDR on Joseph Stalin

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Liberalism misunderestimating our enemies, as usual, because it believes human nature is essentially good. All of our bets on China hav...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Drudge is wrong: The deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history didn't occur in Pittsburgh, not by a longshot

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The deadliest anti-Semitic attack occurred in 1939 when FDR refused to let the MS St. Louis of the Hamburg America Line dock with its ove...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

FDR: Public employee unions shouldn't exist at all because they can paralyze government and its operation

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Here , August 16, 1937: All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cann...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Let this be a sign unto you: The era of libertarian looting ushered in by Reagan now reaching apogee will be followed by another FDR-like "progressive" era of welfare statism

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Bernie tapped into the amorphous socialism clamored for by today's young people who face dim job prospects while saddled by large co...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Courts had and have absolutely no business ruling on the president's travel ban, wrote FDR's former attorney general

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Noted here : Writing for the Supreme Court in 1948 (in Chicago & Southern Air Lines v. Waterman), Justice Robert Jackson — FDR’s f...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Crumbling credibility: The New York Times can't decide if we had interment camps or internment camps

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Vern McKinley Connects Long History Of Bailouts In US Especially With 1930s

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Vern McKinley's new book on 100 years of bailouts in the US is reviewed here , including this quotation from the book: “the number of ag...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

FDR, The Enemy of Money, Devalued the Dollar Nearly 70 Percent Overnight

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FDR in 1933 Executive Order 6102 Gold priced in dollars went from its historic price since 1879 of $20.67 the ounce to $35 in 1...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Pat McIlheran Reminds Us Wisconsin's Governor Walker is Actually to the Left of FDR, and the Last Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee

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From one of America's best columnists writing today: Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's mayor in the 1950s and the last card-carrying Social...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Half of CPAC This Year is Libertarian, Heckles and Walks Out on Dick Cheney

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The Libertarians hate the Department of Defense and the US military more than they hate the much larger, arguably unconstitutional, social w...
Monday, February 7, 2011

RC Whalen Wants Us To Declare FDR's 'Emergency' Over Already

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Some excerpts: President Herbert Hoover said of the New Deal that it was an attempt to crossbreed Socialism, Fascism and Free Enterprise, pa...