Archive for April, 2012
A Return to Normalcy
Posted on April 30, 2012
In the aftermath of World War I, the Palmer Raids, a failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren...
Read StoryIt Was a Thousand Against Two
Posted on April 30, 2012
“The battle scene was tense. The fighting was fierce. And of course we were all scared. It was a thousand against two. And somehow, we were able to...
Read StoryWHCD
Posted on April 29, 2012
We were late to the one party that we were invited to over the weekend, thanks to a Presidential motorcade that kept us waiting for 20 minutes and screwed...
Read StoryNumbers Beating Ideas These Days
Posted on April 27, 2012
“Feel like a stranger/A stranger in this land/I feel like a number/I’m not a number/I’m not a number/Dammit I’m a man/I said I’m a man.” Bob Seger...
Read StoryChanging CSRS Into FERS
Posted on April 26, 2012
In the mid-1980’s, Social Security was going broke, as was the Federal government. And the retirement program for all Federal employees was in the cross-hairs of voters who thought...
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