On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” The effect of the order was to criminalize the possession of monetary gold by any individual, partnership, association or corporation. Two months later, on June 5, 1933, Congress passed…
On Feb. 19, 1942, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed EO9066, setting into motion the roundup and detention of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans, along with German and Italian-Americans. These people spent the duration of WWII staring through barbed wire fences. Never tell me “It can’t happen here.”
Members of the Occupy Lincoln group noticed our recent article, “Occupy Lincoln Tipi Smokes and City Ordinances Burn, Officials Fiddle” and left a number of comments there. Because we’ll be referring to some of those comments in the body of this article, we’ve linked directly to them so those who wish may see a particular… more
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh article in a series about Nebraska politics, particularly as pertains to the Nebraska Republican Party and closely connected groups and their relationship to the “tea party movement”. We recommend starting with the article “Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide” which includes links to all other… more
“At its core, this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance—or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage—it’s about an individual’s right to choose to participate.” A federal judge in the Eastern Virginia District Court released a summary judgment Monday declaring the individual mandate portion of the health care law passed [...]
Is there such a thing as American culture anymore, or has the push for “multiculturalism” essentially destroyed the values, traditions, beliefs, and experiences we, as Americans, once commonly held? In an October 2, 2010, article in the local paper, Lincoln Public Schools touted its hiring of four “advocates” to represent African-American and Hispanic students within [...]