Barbie is an American icon, a business phenomenon, and a real doll. Continue reading
National Museum of Industrial History Does Little To Remove The Donches Stench
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The National Museum of Industrial History, under the leadership of Stephen Donches, spent $19 million and 17 years to unveil… a fiasco. Continue reading
Pennsylvania History We Like To Forget – A Militia Massacre Of The Christian Indians
On March 8th, 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militiamen committed the infamous Gnadenhutten Massacre. This PA Militia murdered 96 Christian Indians – 39 children, 29 women and 28 men – by hammering their skulls with mallets from behind as they knelt unarmed, praying and singing, in their Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten in the Ohio Country. Continue reading
Home Foreclosures Still Happening Years After Home Market Bust
I’m working on a story this weekend about foreclosed homes in this country. In doing some preliminary searching I came across a sad story.
I was reading on the WFMZ.com website about Dan Palchanes, who lost his home to the bank. I also read he bought the home for around $350,000 and the bank sold it at auction for $175,000. Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Further Erodes Civil Liberties
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police can enter a person’s home or other dwelling without his/her consent, representing the worrying trend of the erosion of civil liberties and the Constitution of the United States. Continue reading
55-Star U.S. Flag If Venture Capitalist Has His Way
With an initiative approved to proceed that will attempt to carve up California, why wouldn’t more states try to carve out their problem areas, rather than fix them? Continue reading