Jon Stewart: Bush Bailout Speech Same as Iraq Speech (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart finds an eerie similarity between President Bush’s big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago. “Those who do not study the past get an exciting opportunity to repeat it.”

[Editor's note: please forgive the language in the title, this video makes the side by side presentation of the two speeches like I have seen nowhere else - it is meant to be humorous, but sadly it is serious! The warning about history is both important and timely.]/sc

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Abraham Lincoln: Interview of Thomas Dilorenzo by Brian Lamb

Interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN’s “Q & A” television program, Dr. DiLorenzo discusses Lincoln, academia, and his two books: “The Real Lincoln” and “Lincoln Unmasked”. [Editor's note: History unfolds in an hour interview that will make a number of things fall in place to the keen listener/sc]

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Will the Antiwar Movement Strangle the State?

I want to start out today with something written by an early American revolutionary. This man was key to the armed revolution we fought against the King of England beginning in 1776, and more than that, was key to the revolution of ideas that had begun to grip the American colonies for several generations.

[Editor's note: If you only read one article today - read this one (a comment I saw and agree with!). Read it, ponder it, share it, blog it, study it . . .blessings/sc]

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