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2010: Our Year of Decision

Alan from NJ Wrote: Jan 07, 2010 11:16 AM

Obama wants to take from the wage earners and give to the parasites. Employment in the public sector increases slavery. His constituency may be, to some degree, decendants of slaves. They are marching towards slavery, again. A vast majority of others seem to have been convinced of white guilt and voted to prove 'not me'. His behavior is Marxist, while his words are ambivalent. Which really count?

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2010: Our Year of Decision

Sometimes long-festering problems collide -- and explode -- in a single memorable year. We can go as far back as the fifth century B.C. to see this phenomenon -- and we may see it again in 2010.

In 480 B.C., a decade of Aegean tension culminated in the Persian invasion of Greece. Nothing seemed able to stop the onslaught of King Xerxes as he broke through the pass of Thermopylae -- until the Greeks under Themistocles rallied at the sea battle of Salamis and saved the West.