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Brian E. Birdnow is a historian and teaches at a university in the St. Louis area. He is the author of Communism, Anti-Communism And The Federal Courts In Missouri 1952-1958: The Trial of the St. Louis Five.
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Brian Birdnow (Dec 12, 2011)
The latest news cycles have brought tidings of foreboding for Newt Gingrich, the erstwhile Speaker of the House and now the great non-Mitt Romney hope in the Republican... more
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Brian Birdnow (Nov 22, 2011)
Last Monday, November 14th, the National Broadcasting Corporation announced that have hired the estimable Chelsea Clinton as a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. ... more
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Brian Birdnow (Oct 27, 2011)
The Occupy Wall Street movement, and its host of copycat imitators around the country have garnered much attention recently. They have been largely lauded by the mainstream... more
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Brian Birdnow (Sep 17, 2011)
Kathleen Parker is a proud member of a very select club. She is, in fact, a charter member of a cabal that might be called, for lack of a better term, “Self-Professed... more
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Brian Birdnow (Sep 03, 2011)
This week marks the debut of former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s memoir entitled In My Time. Cheney has helped pump up interest in his volume, promising that it will stir up... more
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Brian Birdnow (Jul 30, 2011)
This past Monday, (July 25th) in these same pages, the estimable Lurita Doan outlined the Obama Administration’s intention to reduce defense expenditures by nearly one... more
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Brian Birdnow (Jun 27, 2011)
Buried in the back pages of the American newspapers this past Friday were two news items of great interest to those who believe that we should take seriously the Islamic... more
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Brian Birdnow (Jun 01, 2011)
Last week David Brooks, the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times penned a column extolling the British national political system. The piece, written to coincide... more
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Brian Birdnow (May 29, 2011)
Last week David Brooks, the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times penned a column extolling the British national political system. The piece, written to coincide... more
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Brian Birdnow (Apr 30, 2011)
The most recent polls show President Obama leading all of his potential GOP opponents and, in fact easily defeating most of them in hypothetical 2012 elections. The common... more
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Brian Birdnow (Mar 28, 2011)
Last week the Obama Administration, increasingly ceding American foreign policy to the “world community”, initiated military actions against Libya, for a host of stated but... more
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Brian Birdnow (Feb 10, 2011)
In a press conference last week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg congratulated himself on having masterminded a sting operation wherein he sent undercover NYC agents to a gun... more
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Brian Birdnow (Jan 10, 2011)
The New Year, 2011, opened last week and in Washington D.C. the Republican Party celebrated the beginning of the new annum and the new decade by watching John Boehner, one... more