The New Deal News

Is this what Time magazine meant with their July 6th cover, What Barack Obama Can Learn From FDR ? Not one to let " a serious crisis to go to waste ," Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the onset of the Great Depression as an excuse to immediately begin delivering New Deal dollars in unprecedented amounts - with laser-like political precision to ...

The deregulation of The New Deal policies by the Reagan administration ultimately put the American public in its current comprising economic situation.

Tough economic times might keep some music lovers from catching their favorite band when they're in town, but for fans of Audrye Sessions this may not be the case.

Whether it's over health care, climate change or most other big Washington battles this year, Congress keeps debating the same underlying issue: Is the federal government getting too big and intrusive? The subject bitterly divides Republicans from Democrats, and the public's mood seems ambivalent.

IN a mere week, it will be here. The 100th-Day mark. That big, fat and fuzzy benchmark that all presidents and prime ministers dread because they really, really want to get a good grade.

If you look at the broken systems in our country, you'll notice they all result from government intrusion .

"The greatest of all crimes," Francesca Beauman insists, "is dullness." For her, the secret to making history compelling is to pick quirky subjects.

From the 1930's comes a reminder of why socialism simply doesn't work in real life: [New Deal officials] constructed a town for 200 garment-worker families .

In the final song of "Annie" wealthy businessman Oliver Warbucks croons, "I know the Depression's depressing ... But we'll get a new deal for Christmas this year." We no longer use the word "depression" to describe present economic hard times .

The Civilian Conservation Corps was created by an act of Congress in 1933 soon after the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Phish @ Bonnaroo 2009 "We discussed playing a 45-minute version of 'China Cat Sunflower,' [at Bonnaroo 2008]" said MGMT guitarist James Richardson with a straight face shortly before his set, sporting a well-worn tie-dyed Grateful Dead T-shirt. "I think pretty much everybody in MGMT secretly loves jambands--well, not so secretly.

Page 1 of 2 OBAMA, CHANGE AND CHINA, Part 5 Group of Two the wrong number By Henry C K Liu Part 1: The song stays the same Part 2: A dangerous balance Part 3: The New Deal dollar and the Obama dollar Part 4: Brzezinski's G-2 grand strategy As former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Group of Two" concept of a US-China convergence ...

MINISTERS were last night accused of "breathtaking incompetence" after it emerged the Westcountry's long-term jobless could be left in limbo this summer.

We've got even more big government regulations coming down the pipeline, said by everyone to be the biggest financial regulation overhaul since the 1930s.

Monica Mitchell, 16, has been selected as Tennessee's nominee for 21st Century Community Center Centers Student Ambassador.

Kris McCusker, history professor, will present ''But Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all': The New Deal and the South' at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the State Farm Lecture Hall of MTSU's Business and Aerospace Building.

Works heavily cited are Antony Sutton's "Wall Street and FDR" and Hans Schmidt's "Maverick Marine" Notes: The real deal about the supposed FDR coup is evasive, but some things are for certain: No one was indicted for an act that would have been considered treasonous and punishable by execution.

I've been watching the esteemed Charles Kesler on Peter Robinson's show Uncommon Knowledge.

Linebaugh Library Systems' "Soul of a People" program continues this month with several more lectures and discussions sessions.

Images by: Dave Vann Bisco Inferno :: 05.30.09 :: Red Rocks Amphitheatre :: Morrison, CO Bisco Inferno :: 05.30 :: Red Rocks From above, the view was vast.