Henninger: Bring Back the Robber Barons

Wall Street Journal

" Robber baron " became a term of derision to generations of American students after many earnest teachers made them read Matthew Josephson's long tome of the ...



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Health Care Mandate to Be Enforced by IRS 'Bounty Hunters'

Men's News Daily

It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at ...



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The Terms of the Deal

Hot Air (blog)

... through its very nature it is the predictable behavior of people who are no less greedy, ambitious, or deceitful that the most rapacious robber baron . ...



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General Danjuma, A Thunderous Applause Or Scathing Rebukes?

NgEX

Danjuma is a Robbin Hood or Robber Baron , but where are the others? Give Danjuma a break already, especially when we consider him alongside the others, ...

Exposing the Great American Bubble Barons : Join Us in the Investigation

AlterNet

A century ago, the robber barons at the helm of the US economy were easily identifiable titans of industry: Andrew Carnegie of Carnegie Steel, ...

Not quite a bull's-eye

Enter Stage Right

... where revisionist historian Maury Klein has made a distinguished career for himself by telling us what really went on in the so-called Robber Baron era. ...

Pelosi Aborts Stupak Negotiations

TIME (blog)

Actually, the worldwide collapse during the first half of the twentieth century of unaccountable, free market fundamentalist, robber - baron capitalism ...



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3-8-2010 The Day in Review

Stanford Review (blog)

Daniel Henninger wistfully remembers the Robber Barons . Chris Lehmann counters. If his face is wide, he just lied. Jim Behrle explains how you (yes, you! ...



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from the brooklyn aerie

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

The phrase robber barons is now very much part of our English language. Do the residents of 220 Columbia Heights know that the original owner of their ...

gordon duff: terrorism and the fleecing of the faithful

Veterans Today Network

Jews were often Socialists, vocal and radical proponents of economic equality thru the destruction of the Robber Baron system that had taken financial ...

No Eyes on the Prize

Morning News Magazine

In Pulitzer's case, his ascension during America's Gilded Age, otherwise known as the (first) age of the robber barons , made him sensitive to the effects of ...

New York State announces cuts in public parks, historic sites

World Socialist Web Site

A substantial portion of the funding and land used in the early development of the New York State park system came from Robber Baron families such as the ...



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Beck's Bad History: Roosevelt Was No Socialist

U.S. News & World Report (blog)

Even worse, as far as Roosevelt was concerned, was the way the robber barons sought to perpetuate their rule--through complex combinations of trusts and ...



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Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States [Video ...

The Public Record

My grandparents were born into the Great Depression, an era of Robber Barons and massive income inequality. They had to fight through poverty and a World ...

Water Wars: The 'Endangered' Western States

Prison Planet.com

... which was designed to limit resources and land ownership of the West and keep it in the hands of the Robber Baron banking and railroad tycoons. ...

Letters, 2/28: Support clean energy

Lincoln Journal Star

We need to rise up and call an end to this new robber baron mentality! I wish our Nebraska Legislature would spend just a portion of its time protecting our ...

Docklands $9bn plan for next decade

The Age

... time (and pushed by robber baron state premiers, barely a step up from developers themselves), let alone in today's accountability-focussed climate. ...



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Paths of Glory, Act II: The Health Care Bill

Firedoglake (blog)

No robber barons or captains of industry here: just the errand boys to power who are easily bought for pennies on the dollar. If this is the best we can do ...

India and China spawning world's new moneyed class

Global Times

Yesterday's American robber barons are today's developing world energy giants. But whether they will be as renowned another century from now remains to be ...

Can Dems Retain Control of the Senate?

OpEdNews

Meanwhile, Democrats must take on the Wall Street robber barons that caused the economy to collapse. Dems have to be change their image and be seen as the ...



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