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Grant's Greatest Regret

mike1471 Wrote: Dec 06, 2012 8:07 AM

I know this is beyond your mental capacity, but stretch a bit and try. If a driver told you that he got 1000 miles/gal from his car, would you accept that at face value? You and the driver got into the car and started up a steep hill to proove his point. At the top of the hill, the driver took his foot off the gas and coasted into the downhill run. Then he turns to you and says- See I'm going 60 mph and am not using any gas. Would you agree with him? You dipsh*ts simply don't know how to do math. The economy that BC inherited was growing from what Reagan did and the brakes the Republican Congress put on BC. But then as someone said earlier- You just can't fix Stupid.

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Grant's Greatest Regret

In the American experience, anti-Semitic decrees have been virtually unthinkable. Religious liberty is enshrined in the Constitution, and early in his presidency George Washington went out of his way to assure the young nation's Jews that "the Government of the United States … gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." During the long centuries of Jewish exile, powerful officials had often promulgated sweeping edicts depriving Jews of their rights or driving them from their homes. In America, that could never happen.

But 150 years ago this month, it did.

In December 1862, with the Civil War...

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