New book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees

A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

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Harvard to restore FDR's student suite

Harvard University is planning to restore the luxury suite where Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived during his four years at the school.

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How does Obama compare to FDR? Ask Kitty

Record unemployment, stock market gyrations, economic anxiety: For my generation, these grim tidings have a familiar ring. So does the voice of a new president offering hope in the first 100 days of his administration. Then as now, there were people who were for him and people against him — but whatever your politics are, the parallels are undeniable.I was 9 years old when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933. The country was deeply mired in the Depression, but my family was luckier than many: My father was a coal miner. Depression or no Depression, people needed coal to heat their homes and to cook (we had a coal stove), and in northeastern Pennsylvania, the mines stayed open.I also had a grandmother and three bachelor uncles who were all helping keep food on the table. But I can remember other men not so fortunate coming to our door, looking for something to eat. My grandmother always sent them around to the back door, and she always gave them food — but never money.

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An inaugural front page: FDR takes firm command

Franklin Roosevelt swept into Washington in the threadbare depths of the Depression, told the nation it would revive, and got to work.

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Palin's family ties include FDR, Princess Diana

Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree. Sarah Palin is linked in her lineage to Franklin Roosevelt. She also has a connection with Princess Diana.

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Historic FDR artifacts up for auction in Texas

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's trademark fedora, the last check he ever signed, and watercolor sketches for the unfinished portrait he sat for on the day he died are among hundreds of historic artifacts and documents headed for the auction block.

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President Obama has meant a lot of things to a lot people this year.

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The last great archives of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency may soon be available to researchers and the public — 14 boxes of handwritten notes, gifts and correspondence, including a letter from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini congratulating him on his 1933 inauguration.

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The Republican Party has pulled itself out of its "Party of No" rut. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is clearly out of touch with the right-of-center American public, pushing Rooseveltian policies on a public that is no longer living in 1929.

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In response to these financial crises, the federal government and the Federal Reserve System have moved to shore up some of the markets and, in the case of AIG Insurance Corp., the Fed actually has taken a huge ownership share in the business itself, a first in U.S. history.

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There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

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As Smith remarked of his harsh treatment at the hands of one-time friends and allies, "Unless you're ready to subscribe to the New Deal 100 per cent and sign your life name on the dotted line, you're a Tory, you're a prince of privilege, you're a reactionary, you're a …

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Isn't it wonderful, how the government doesn't blink an eye at bailing out people who don't deserve it, and I ain't talking about a welfare mom and her six babies...

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The Bush years are certainly the gift that keeps on giving, aren't they? All those people who had jobs with what they thought was a secure future are all going to be scraping by on Social Security.

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Why Barack Obama is not a Nazi

The hilarious attempts of the far-right to make President Obama out to be a Nazi are hard to take seriously. But we must and here is why.

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Sound familiar? The president was accused of being "a socialist, not a Democrat." His plan was described as "undisguised state socialism." One critic, who controlled some powerful media outlets, suggested that communists had infiltrated the president's administration.

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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China decried a U.S. decision to impose added duty on Chinese-made tires, saying the move sent a dangerous protectionist signal before a G20 summit and could stoke reactions impeding global recovery.

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"His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration." said the chairman of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana,

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The rabid protesters opposing Obama are representatives of a long national tradition based in an irrational fear of a strong central government and buttressed by the insurance, hospital and pharmaceutical lobbies.

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The debate about what hit the Pentagon continues after many years. This paper points out that continuing debate plays into the hands of the perpetrators. The paper suggests that contradictory evidence has been supplied to the public for the purpose of keeping the debate going.

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Mr. Ajami commented, "Those protesters in those town-hall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama's charismatic moment has passed. Once again, the belief in that American exception that set this nation apart from other lands is re-emerging.

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From the original LA Time's article -- Nation again awash in 'Wirtism':

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Will America Ever Be Cool Again?

The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor,

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"McKinley encourages gun presence at town hall meets," "HOOVER FILLS TREASURY WITH J.P. MORGAN EXECUTIVES," "LBJ: 'War on Poverty' too costly" and other mightabeen headlines...

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Do we need a NEW Economic Bill Of Rights?

Would we a better nation if FDR had passed The Economic Bill Of Rights? I hadn't even hear of it til someone else mentioned it, So of course I had to do some research.

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The critics who call President Barack Obama's policies socialist echo accusations made against his precessor Franklin D. Roosevelt, analysts say.

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The New Deal in the Land of Wingnuttia-- How Conservatives Continue to Get It Wrong.

Republicans love to liken Obama's attempts to straighten out our befuddled economy with FDR's New Deal. It's an assumed fact that the two are synonymous, and therefore, based on their own befuddled thinking on the New Deal, horribly, horribly wrong-headed.

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Hold onto your handbag, Honey- the stock market looks like it's gonna take us for a ride.  Fluctuations are one thing; you can expect those.  Wild gyrations say something was not accounted for.  And just limping along shows absolutely no direction.

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Ignoring History is just Plain Ignorant!

It seems that there are some people on the right who want to ignore the last eight years in order to blame the current administration for all the problems we have right now.

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Linda Gordon defends the New Deal "Between FDR's inauguration and 1936, production doubled. Unemployment fell from 25 percent to under 10 percent in that period."

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