Archive for the 'History' Category

How to Read the Bible in Two Hours

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

It’s no miracle. To quickly read the Christian Bible, which holds some 800,000 words, we must cut it down to its essential core.1 Luckily, Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, has done that for us – though he meant it just for his own use.2 3 […]

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Mother Jones at the Colorado Labor Wars

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
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Past Fighters for Democracy Give Hope for Today

Friday, December 31st, 2010

The days after the winter solstice, when the once-receding sun has turned and begun its walk back towards the people of the North, have for ages been marked by holidays and rising hopes.1 Now, as we go through the Great Recession, with a battered middle class and government under the sway of big corporations, we […]

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Nikola Tesla Sought Abundant, Clean Energy for Humanity

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor who devoted his life to making an abundant, clean energy supply for humanity. Among his inventions toward that end were alternating current (AC) power transmission, the AC motor, and the bladeless turbine.1 He also invented radio, neon & fluorescent lighting, x-ray imaging, robotics, wireless remote control, wireless energy transmission […]

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Old Law Could Stop Corporate Dinosaurs

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Haplocanthosaurus, where it belongs. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Since U.S. states abandoned their old laws that curb corporate power, many corporations have become dinosaurs — huge beasts that have outlived their time, but that keep on stomping through the world.1 One type of dinosaur is the big oil company, whose products feed disastrous global […]

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