| Hoover’s frightening plan
We've known for a long time that the early 1950s was a nightmarish time in this country. It was the time of the arch-demagogue, Joe McCarthy. It was the time when the Cold War was at its coldest, a time when Americans confused dissent with disloyalty, when people were gripped with the fear that that alien doctrine of communism would infiltrate our open society and destroy us. We now have another view of just how scary that era really was. The New York Times reported that a newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, longtime director of the FBI, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.According to the declassified material, Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. Hoover's plan called for putting suspect Americans in military prisons.
Traffic-calming program to expand
Sue Dailey calls Moorgate Road the Indianapolis 500.
Cars whiz through her Dundalk neighborhood, building speed on the wide roads and ignoring stop signs, Dailey says.
She and others in the Eastfield Stanbrook Civic Association collected signatures of neighbors who agreed that speed bumps or other road modifications, such as concrete islands, were needed. They asked Baltimore County officials to look at possible solutions.
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Reshaped Braves aim toward spring training
What good is a guy batting .305 but chokes when on the road, like Philadelphia, New York (2)and Los Angeles. That's what a Julio, Javy and Kotsay Chipper and Tex can do for us, look the pitcher and the crowd in the eyes and hit the ball. Some of the young guys imped out last year in the really stressing at bats. .
today's blogs
They don't like their candidates, they are getting tired of their President, and talk radio keeps yelling at them in betweeen the candidates yelling at each other. Hmmm... it's enough to make a voter vote Democratic. I guess that's why voters keep turning out in record numbers for the contested D primaries. And I can't say I blame them." Read more about the Florida primary. .
Redeeming the Dismal Science
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own."—Gordon Gekko to Bud Fox (Wall Street, 1987, directed by Oliver Stone)This is an important book about a vast and important subject—economics—which, except for hermits and recluses living in the wilderness, affects just about everyone, every single day, in more ways than most people realize. Understanding economics—or rather, to be more precise, the political economy, a term I amplify later— is critical to any person wishing to make sense of the world, and essential to choosing rationally how to position oneself on the political map.It's obvious that if you really understand what's going on in society, and your place in it, especially the larger issues and behaviors that define what a healthy and truly democratic society is all about, you're not likely to vote against your own interest—shoot yourself in the foot, so to speak— nor give your allegiance to criminals and scoundrels in the political class, nor act in a boorish or wantonly selfish manner injurious to the majority of your fellows.
Peden named Patriotic Veteran of Year
Tom Peden, a native of Gray Court, S. C., who fondly adopted the Cleveland/Bradley County community more than 45 years ago, is this years Bradley County Patriotic Veteran of the Year. Peden Peden was presented the annual Raymond H. Miller Patriotic Citizens Award at today's 11 a.m. Bradley County Veterans Day program at Johnston Park. Growing up in South Carolina, Peden was a 1938 graduate of Clemson University with a bachelor of science degree in textile engineering. His military career began at Clemson, where he was commissioned an officer in the ROTC. He was called to active duty in December 1941 after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Peden first reported to Camp Wheeler in Georgia, advanced to Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., Camp Blanding in Florida and later to Fort Ord, Calif.
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