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  1. Could John Brown’s government outlast him?

    John Brown is a personal hero of mine, one of the few historical figures to ever dedicate himself so fully to a cause purely on moral grounds. That said, his planned rebellion was deeply flawed, his provisional constitution was rigid and militant, and his personal temperament leaves much to be...

  2. Following the Reagan Route

    One of my favorite movie scenes is in Back to the Future, when Marty tells Doc that Ronald Reagan becomes President and Doc is blown away by the idea of an actor as president. After all, President Reagan was a ridiculous concept in 1955. Then recently, I heard the 1965 Tom Lehrer song "George...

  3. DBWI: Avert World War IV?

    Some people say that the Treaty of Damascus that ended WWIII made a fourth war inevitable, just like how Versailles led to WWII and Paris led to WWIII. The factors - economic troubles across Europe and Asia, political dissenters in the Eastern Bloc, radical parties in France and Britain, racial...

  4. DBWI: Fromme Fails, Ford Lives

    Witnesses reported that Fromme appeared "dazed", "disoriented" when apprehended by Secret Service September 5, 1975, President Gerald Ford was shot and killed. The assassin was Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a radical environmentalist and former Manson family member. President Rockefeller would be...

  5. DBWI: What if Kelsey Grammer was an actor?

    The 44th President of the United States A. Kelsey Grammer (R - FL) 2009-2017 President Grammer's second term ended just a few months ago so this might be current politics. Hope it's not too controversial! For any non-Americans, Kelsey Grammer was a congressman and governor of Florida before...
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