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9/11 Terrorist Attack Anniversary.

on September 11th, 2011 by admin

September 11th is a day of dread.  I can’t believe it has been 10 years since that horrific day of barbarism.  I sometimes still can’t believe it happened.  I feel sadness for 3000 souls who were destroyed.  One day about a year ago I went on a website of Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment firm that […]

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German Philosophy and the Unabomber

on April 21st, 2011 by admin

I must admit the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski was an afterthought for me.  I stumbled upon a 2004 article of college professor Alston Chase.  He wrote a book called Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.  I immediately checked this out at my local library.  I think this is an important book because […]

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Forgotten Americans in Stalin’s Russia.

on February 1st, 2009 by admin

One of my favorite subjects in school was history.   A few months ago I read book review from The New York Sun, a now defunct newspaper about The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.  This book details a little known tragedy in American history.  During the Great Depression over 2ooo Americans decided to leave the country for Russia in the […]

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