Many times during my youth in mid-North Indiana, I would hear someone say, "Hitler mighta been a [fill in the blank, but the gist was murderous jerk], but ya gotta admit he was a genius." The speaker of such words nearly always explained that Hitler's economic and foreign policies had benefited the German people in that those policies brought der Fatherland out of its longtime depression and rid it of the bonds of the Treaty of Versailles.
Hitler was not a "genius." I have seen…
ContinueAdded by Mark Small on July 31, 2013 at 6:04am — 1 Comment
Dear Governor-Elect Pence:
Your Eminence, Your Exaltedness, and Your whatever is appropriate for a person between jobs.
In the couple of years before Hurricane Katrina, the political leaders of New Orleans and Louisiana gave insufficient thought to what many had seen as inevitable—a hell of a hurricane that could wash over a city below sea-level and cause mass havoc.
Between Katrina and the latest hurricane on the East Coast, lessons were learned, and emergency…
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