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Lessons from a Massacre Committed 450 Years Ago

Lessons from a Massacre Committed 450 Years Ago  by James Bovard   August 25, 2022 On this day in 1572, French Catholics slaughtered thirty thousand Protestants (known as Huguenots) in the streets of Paris. The French king and the pope helped organize the the biggest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Roughly half the Bovards […]

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Obama Gets Bum Rap on Paris

Lots of folks are hammering Obama for not going to Paris for the march this past weekend. I think he is getting a bum rap. There was no excuse for the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. But the event turned into a Parade of Political Hypocrites with a vanload of repressive politicians hijacking the […]

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