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Interview With Student Loan Activist Alan Collinge – Fair Value In An Unfair System ?
There are serious policy considerations as well. For example: If this methodology is accepted and used by Congress in its decision making, then we’ll have a “tail wagging the dog” scenario where the private lending industry will be able to make the federal program “look” far, far more expensive by simply raising their interest rates! While this is something the private lenders like Sallie Mae clearly would like to do for a number of reasons, it threatens millions of borrowers, the federal lending system and the public interest generally.
Claim Citizens United Attorney Broke Charity Tax Law Doesn't Hold Up
Mr. Bopp and his firm, however, should not be subject to the extremely punitive 4958 excise tax, if they gave JMFCS its money worth. Unfortunately, I think that Mr. Bopp and his firm did give JMFCS its money worth, which is why CREW is so pissed at him. I don’t like the Citizens United decision any better than CREW does.
Gettysburg 150 – Thank You National Park Service
Even though they do all sorts of different things, they all wear the same uniform and are referred to as rangers. If you are observant, you will note that some of them are packing heat. Those are the law enforcement rangers who will arrest you if you need arresting. Another fellow told me that all the history guys long to work at Gettysburg and that only the most knowledgeable, many of them published authors end up there.
Walking In Armistead's Footsteps 150 Years Later – Gettysburg Day 3 – Pickett's Charge
They started forming us into lines to make the march. Originally it was going to be two lines, but as we stretched out, they had us double up and make it four. I don’t know if Armistead’s brigade ended up being the most popular, but it probably was. Combine that with there being only eight brigades rather than eleven and there being even more people getting ready to cross the field than there had been 150 years ago.
Gettysburg Interlude – Understanding Historiography
We get along by practicing a form of apartheid. The educational system is neo-abolitionist. Popular culture remains Lost Cause to a significant extent. The educational system does not pay very much attention to the actual war. Civil War buffs do not pay very much attention to what happened other than things relating to the actual conduct of the war.
Gettysburg Day 2 – Worst Ground I Ever Seen
Originally published on forbes.com on July 4, 2013. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Valley of Death "Battlefield...
The Most Glorious Fourth
The superstition grew apace that this was a mystic courier come with great news from the war—the poetry of the idea excusing and commending it—and on it spread, from heart to heart, from lip to lip and from street to street, till there was a general impulse to have out the military and welcome the bright waif with a salvo of artillery!
And all that time one sorely tried man, the telegraph operator sworn to official secrecy, had to lock his lips and chain his tongue with a silence that was like to rend them; for he, and he only, of all the speculating multitude, knew the great things this sinking sun had seen that day in the east—Vicksburg fallen, and the Union arms victorious at Gettysburg!
But for the journalistic monopoly that forbade the slightest revealment of eastern news till a day after its publication in the California papers, the glorified flag on Mount Davidson would have been saluted and re-saluted, that memorable evening, as long as there was a charge of powder to thunder with; the city would have been illuminated, and every man that had any respect for himself would have got drunk,—as was the custom of the country on all occasions of public moment. Even at this distant day I cannot think of this needlessly marred supreme opportunity without regret. What a time we might have had!
Gettysburg Day 2 – Heading Into Action
The board game Gettysburg by Avalon Hill was published in 1958 and is ground zero of the historical simulation board game hobby. I could not help but brag about the vintage copy that accompanied me on the trip and one of the GGG told me that they had laid a copy on the table the previous night to plan their day.
Walking In Armistead's Footsteps 150 Years Later – Gettysburg Day 3 – Pickett's Charge
The monuments on Cemetery Ridge call it “Longstreet’s Assault”, but it goes down in history and popular imagination as “Pickett’s Charge”. Longstreet’s Assault is more accurate, since Pickett commanded only one of the three divisions. I thought that shift might have been post-war revisionism, since Longstreet fell out of favor among Lost Cause historians. Fred Wieners, our tour guide on Saturday, told me that it was more a matter of Pickett being popular with the Richmond press. He also told us that the idea of a frontal assault on the center after a heavy artillery barrage was probably inspired by the Battle of Solferino in 1859. It worked then. The consequence of the Battle of Solferino was the independence of Italy.
Did Doris Kearns Goodwin Blow It At Gettysburg ?
I think one of the things that we as individual Americans need to always remember is that if something really bad happens in our community, the outpouring of generous support and, if required acts of heroism, will be, in some arbitrarily large percentage, from people with whom we profoundly disagree on deeply held moral beliefs.