A century ago, the American West, and the process of homesteading and Americanization that took place in the lands West of the Mississippi River was seen as a triumph of American drive, ingenuity, and courage; a sheer act of will that required hard work, perseverance, and above all, a spirit of independence and individualism. In the decades
Hastert Faults Report on Exporting Jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, the top Republican in the House, joined Democrats on Wednesday in taking issue with [pretty darn good--LR] remarks by a White House economist that the movement of American jobs overseas could have economic and trade benefits. In a statement, Mr.
On Tolerance.org today is a piece about school integration activist Daisy Bates . Part of it relates her family’s problem with death threats: “...[her] house — and Bates herself — became the target of white segregationist hatred, vandalism and even death threats. Daisy and L.C. Bates were branded ‘two of the most radical people in Arkansas.’ “’It
According to Dale E Watts of the Kansas State Historical Society, “Bleeding Kansas” was not nearly as violent as once thought. (See article in PDF here ) For those unfamiliar with the period, “Bleeding Kansas” is the name for the territorial period of 1854-1861 when Kansans fought over whether the state would enter the Union as a slave state or a
According to the International Herald Tribune , Europe is reconsidering the wisdom of mandated short work weeks and luxurious vacation policies. The evidence of this change that the article presents is anecdotal, so it is not certain that a better understanding of economics is really spreading, but even the fact that the article was written is
It amazes me when Congressmen fight tooth and nail to prevent military base closings in their districts. There are usually much better uses for the land that bases occupy. Uses like, oh, say, private enterprise. In Denver, closed bases have become health care campuses, neighborhoods, and business parks
In the name of “ Growth Control :” “The most controversial proposal and the one many rural property owners consider an illegal “taking” of their land would require that native vegetation be preserved on 65 percent of each parcel. Landowners also are upset by provisions that would limit homebuilding and paving to 10 percent of the land and would
Layoff veteran aims to put outsourcing ban on Nov. ballot: “So Armstrong wants to take the message to voters. He says he and his group are 70 percent of the way toward collecting the roughly 68,000 signatures needed to get Proposal 139, “Protection of American Workers,” onto this year’s ballot. They have two weeks left. The initiative would bar
“Nearly one in 10 workers in the metro area owes his or her job to the growing globalization of the economy. “ “ The study , conducted by local economist Tucker Hart Adams and two colleagues on the faculty of the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies, found: Eighty-three foreign companies in the metro area that directly
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