Politics Articles
211: History Of Lingerie
Up until about the '60s and '70s, women's undergarments were made to serve a few different functions or purposes, none of them being sensuality or femininity. Learning the history of lingerie should make any woman thankful to have been born during this particular time.
212: World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - Part Six - The Kamikaze
In the closing months of World War II, a new and deadly form of warfare came into being. This involved the attacker committing suicide in order to cause the enemy to sustain a massive loss of life. This tactic of warfare has not subsided. It now is the basis of terrorism.
213: World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - The U-Boat 505
This is the story of the capture of the U-505 in the Battle Of The Atlantic. No ship in World War II was as feared as the German U-Boat. The tale of how the US Navy brought one of these U-Boats to the surface and then captured it by sending a boarding party is a thriller indeed.
214: A History Of The Battle Dress Uniform
I signed my first Army contract in 1985, and over that time, one of the things I was most used to was the BDU, or Battle Dress Uniform.
215: Terrorism and the Constitution
The war on terrorism is not a war in the official sense. Yet the atmosphere of the Post-911 years based on fear and mistrust can never be allowed to subvert our constitution.
216: World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - Part Three - The Blitz
In football, we hear the term "blitz." This is where the defense brings up everybody to go after the quarterback. If the poor guy is lucky, he will escape from getting sacked. But where did the term "blitz" come from?
217: A Review of Beyond Oil, The View From Hubbert's Peak
Because oil has played such a large part of the world's economy, with the onset of peak oil it is in everyone's best interest to become informed about energy supplies and sources.
218: Driver Gets Blinded By Green Competitor
He had many fans and a few enemies. Some of his competitors had been suspended from the circuit for trying to use illegal tricks.
219: It's Harder to Hate a Gay If He's Family
It is easy to harass and ridicule strangers. It is easy to treat them as objects of scorn to perhaps demonstrate our own moral superiority. But if a member of a loving family acts outside the normally expected pattern, there is usually an attempt to understand and assist. Are we not all family?
220: World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary -Part One - The Lenin Mausoleum
World War II didn't happen all at once. It didn't happen even in one place. It started to gain its momentum on many sides on our planet. Each event added a little more to the powder keg. In 1939, the powder keg ignited. In August 1945, the powder keg turned into the nuclear bomb. It not only changed the map. It changed our vocabulary as well.
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