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Tea parties today and the 1700s
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On December 16, 1773, officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. A group of colonists boarded three ships and tossed the into Boston Harbor. It was iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
It was more than a few boxes of tea. The East India Company in 1773 shipped nearly 600,000 pounds of tea to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston, S.C.
It took up to 130 men about three hours to dunk 97,000 pounds of tea in the harbor.
The other acts of civil disobedience took place in Chestertown, Maryland in May 1774 and Edenton, N.C. on Oct. 25, 1774.
The Edenton Tea Party was a landmark, not because of the stances taken—boycotts were common across the Thirteen Colonies—but because it was organized by women.
The latest round of tea party protests began in the U.S. in 2009.
The protests centered around an 18 percent tax on non-diet colas in New York City, the Bush Administration Troubled Asset Relief Program, tax day on April 15, 2009, and Independence Day on July 4, 2009.
Now post of the protests center on just about anything proposed by Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate. The gridlock has come close to shutting-down the government.
Conservatives hijack original Tea Party
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Today's Tea Party claims to focus on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and upholding a conservative view of the U.S. Constitution.
Fewer older vets to honor
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Veterans of World War II, America's greatest generation, are dying at the rate of more than 1,000 per day.
Sept. 11: Seeds of doubt on 9/11 continues
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NEW YORK -- Ten years later, the void left by an attack on the World Trade Center wraps around the silent, empty space in Manhattan left by the twin towers.
Sept. 11: WTC destruction debate continues nine years later
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First, Sept. 11 was hijacked by a band of terrorists who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center at the financial heart of the nation, the Pentagon and a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Rand Paul vs. facts, coal
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Rand Paul, a U.S. Senator representing a major coal producing state, can't get his facts straight about the industry or organized labor.
An article on CNN's documentary about coal mining and a Google ad are spreading Paul's erroneous statements by happenstance.
A Google ad that ocassionally displays in the story in the Beckly Register-Herald is ironic to the max: Senator Rand Paul "Sign the right to work petition Obama fears."
Neither the Register-Herald nor CNN have anything to do with the advertising positioning. the positioning is based on a Google AdSense algorithm.
Paul, the Libertarian Senator from Kentucky, wants a new federal law to regulate millions of workers. He is touting a national right to work law as a back-handed way to weaken or abolish unions. The proposed rule could impact every job in the U.S.
Laboring for the day
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It's Labor Day, the one day set aside to honor working people.
More shots fired in battle for Blair Mountain
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SHARPLES, W.Va. - A tiny Logan County coal town, population 100, is near ground zero in a national debate on coal mining.
The debate is coal vs. environment. Soledad O’Brien of CNN explored both sides of mountaintop removal, a controversial method of coal mining. It aired on CNN at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14. It will be aired a second time Sunday, August 21.
The war of words lists
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The word list and links to other word lists:
Nominate your own words for the list here.
The new economic war
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The other day a friend sent me a link about the empty building glut in China. They have entire cities that are empty. All those empty businesses and empty apartments generate no money.
Sept. 11: Hijacked by conspiracies
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America has been hijacked. Some say it was hijacked by terrorists. Others say it was the government. Some claim the nation has been hijacked by wild conspiracy stories.
What they said
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Wall Street Journal 1/25/11: “President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to challenge lawmakers in both parties to rise above partisan divisions to tackle problems that will allow the U.S. to compete in the global economy.”
New York Times, 1/25/11: “President Obama called Tuesday night for Americans to unleash their creative spirits, set aside their partisan differences and come together around a common goal of out-competing other nations in a rapidly shifting global economy.”
Sept. 11: Chronology of terror
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The hijackers
A security camera filmed two hijackers entering the United States at Portland, Maine.
Obama: Technology fuels economy
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News analysts of President Barak Obama's State of the Union speech are divided in two camps.
One camp urged an immediate end to the partisan bickering that gridlocks Congress at a time when citizens can't afford it.
Sept. 11: Real reporting
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Many cultures come into play understanding terrorism and the impact of the attacks in 2001.
How great was Kennedy's speech?
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John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech set the tone for the idealism of the 1960s. It is considered one of the four best inagural speeches given from all 44 presidents.
It “set the standard by which presidential inaugurals have been judged in the modern era.” ~ William Safire, former New York Times columnist and Nixon speechwriter.
Sept. 11: America responds to terrorism
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America responded to terrorism in many, many ways.
One man honors another
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HIAWATHA, Ia. - LuAnn and I attended the home town parade for Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. It was a cold evening but something that we just couldn't miss, an Iowa hero. We found a lit up street corner and waited for something unexpected.
Sept. 11: Perspective is dead
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The last pillar of journalism, perspective, is dead.
