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Wartime sackings of US military commanders

General Stanley McChrystal has tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama after a magazine profile portrayed him as at odds with his commander in chief. General Stanley McChrystal Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Sackings of wartime commanders are rare, but not unprecedented in US history. Insubordination or a simple lack of confidence have moved presidents to take the fateful step. Here is a history of previous incidents: Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan Abraham Lincoln was the first to face the difficult decision of whether to get rid of his military commander. Major General George McClellan, a politically ambitious former railroad executive, was credited with mobilizing and training the volunteer Army of the Potomac after the outbreak of the US Civil War in 1861.. » read more

Rethinking Iran-Contra: A Much Darker Story? The Iran-Contra/ October Surprise was the missing link in a larger American political narrative

The conventional view of the Iran-Contra scandal is that it covered the period 1985-86, when President Ronald Reagan became concerned about the fate of American hostages in Lebanon and agreed to secretly sell weapons to Iran’s Islamist government to gain its help in freeing the captives. Supposedly, the scheme went awry when White House aide Oliver North and other participants got carried away, including North’s decision to divert profits from the arms sales to another one of Reagan’s priorities, the Nicaraguan contra rebels whose CIA assistance had been cut off by Congress. The Iran-Contra scandal was exposed in fall of 1986 after the shooting down of a North supply plane over Nicaragua and revelations in Lebanon of Reagan’s arms sales to Iran. A White House staff shake-up, including North’s firing, and some wrist-slaps from Congress for Reagan’s alleged inattention to details resolved the scandal, at least that was how Official Washington saw it. The few dissenters who wouldn’t accept that tidy conclusion – such as Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh – were mocked and marginalized by the news media, including the Washington Post (which ran an article concluding that Walsh’s consistency in pursuing the scandal was “so un-Washington” and that he would depart as “a perceived loser”).. » read more

The Faked Birth Records & Genealogy of Dwight D Eisenhower, a Foreign Born Infil-traitor

The Faked Birth Records & Genealogy of Dwight D Eisenhower, a Foreign Born Infil-traitor (April 29, 2010) Don Nicoloff has spent several months digging into the background of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and has discovered compelling evidence that Eisenhower was not born in the United States, but rather in Buchovina, Austria-Hungary under the name of Johann Adolf Eisenhauer, the illigitimate son of Emperor Franz Josef I von Habsburg. Don asserts that Mamie Eisenhower's background and birth records were also faked. There's little doubt that Eisenhower's claimed birthplace of Denison, Texas is a fabrication. Eisenhower himself told U.. » read more

'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. ! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.. » read more

War Time Rationing During WWII

Did you ever wonder why grandma's pantry and freezer are always full, sometimes overflowing with stockpiled food? Why she buys 8 or 10 pounds of coffee, 10 or 15 pounds of sugar when they are on special? Why she tops off the gas tank of her car every few days? Chances are she remembers World War II, when many luxuries as well as necessities became scarce, and the federal government instituted a complex system of rationing, based on the number of people in a household. President Roosevelt created the Office of Price Administration (OPA) in August 1941 in order to control prices, and regulate the consumption of goods necessary to the war effort. In April 1942, prices and rents were frozen across the board. Rubber was one of the first commodities rationed, followed by gasoline and foodstuffs, such as sugar, coffee, meats, butter, canned goods and shoes and clothing. Many items, such as alcohol, were not rationed, but were in short supply.. » read more

Nazifying the Germans

Not long ago a German friend remarked to me, jokingly, that he imagined the only things American college students were apt to associate with Germany nowadays were beer, Lederhosen, and the Nazis. I replied that, basically, there was only one thing that Americans, whether college students or not, associated with Germany. When the Germans are mentioned, it is Nazism that first springs to mind; whatever else may occur to one later will be colored and contaminated by thoughts of the Nazis. When Molly Ivins (described by Justin Raimondo, in his new book, Colin Powell and the Power Elite, as a "liberal columnist and known plagiarist") remarked, of Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican convention, "it sounded better in the original German," everyone instantly knew what she meant. The casual slander was picked up by William Safire and others, and made the rounds.. » read more

PLAN OF SAN DIEGO

With the outbreak of revolution in northern Mexico in 1910, federal authorities and officials of the state of Texas feared that the violence and disorder might spill over into the Rio Grande valley. The Mexican and Mexican-American populations residing in the Valley far outnumbered the Anglo population. Many Valley residents either had relatives living in areas of Mexico affected by revolutionary activity or aided the various revolutionary factions in Mexico. The revolution caused an influx of political refugees and illegal immigrants into the border region, politicizing the Valley population and disturbing the traditional politics of the region. Some radical elements saw the Mexican Revolution as an opportunity to bring about drastic political and economic changes in South Texas.. » read more

The Nazis in The White House Story: Part 6 Bush Ages Nix US Genealogy Claims

The MERGER of the US spies and German Nazi spies after WWII has led to unAmerican governmental policy ever since. Supreme Court Justice Goldberg said John Dulles and Allen Dulles were traitors for what they did. Besides the Merger of Spies, the Dulles were involved in hiding the Nazi Germany corporate and looted funds in 700 corporate shells and Switzerland. Now you know why the DC airport was called Dulles Airport. The Nazis in the White House honored NAZI TRAITORS.. » read more

Death of 'Caveman' Ends an Era in Idaho

Richard Zimmerman, known to all as Dugout Dick, succumbs at 94 Known as the "Salmon River Caveman," Richard Zimmerman lived an essentially 19th century lifestyle, a digital-age anachronism who never owned a telephone or a television and lived almost entirely off the land. "He was in his home at the caves at the end, and it was his wish to die there," said Connie Fitte, who lived across the river. "He was the epitome of the free spirit." Richard Zimmerman had been in declining health when he died Wednesday. Few knew him by his given name.. » read more

Life of Mark Twain revealed in unpublished memoir

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