Most of us have heard the phrase, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it’s black.” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford motor company and also a pioneer of scale production, uttered that phrase. The car in question was the model T, the car that kicked off […]
Content is King: Ted Turner’s acquisition of MGM Studios
Ted Turner was a name in business circles in the 1980s. He started CNN and owned the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks. Turner tried to acquire CBS, but ultimately failed in the endeavor. He then looked for a bigger acquisition. In March 1986, Turner’s company Turner Broadcasting agreed to buy the prestigious but fledgling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer […]
She may be a bag of trouble
During World War I, U.S. federal officials became concerned that a huge percentage of men in the military were infected with syphilis or gonorrhea. These diseases were not only a health risk to the soldiers, but it’s also a national security risk as well. If the soldiers couldn’t perform their soldierly duties, it hurt the […]
Galileo vs. The Catholic Church
We consider Galileo Galilei the father of modern science. He’s made major contributions in the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy. Galileo invented a better telescope. It let him observe the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus, sunspots and the moon’s surface. Galileo is probably best known for […]
I want my radio patent
For a person under the age of 30, a radio is the device you use to play music while you drive or ride in a car. Some people don’t even use the radio in their cars anymore. They use streaming apps like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. The Radio used to be a much bigger […]
Can the Government force you to be vaccinated? A.K.A. how smallpox was eradicated.
Small box has been around since 3rd century BCE Egypt. Experts believe the disease evolved from an African rodent virus. In 18th century Europe, about 400,000 people died from the disease per year. Experts estimate smallpox to have killed 300 million people in the 20th century, and 500 million from 1877 to 1977 alone. The […]
Forgotten: Payless ShoeSource
Growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, there was one sentence you dreaded to hear from your classmates. That sentence was, “you got those shoes from Payless!” We knew the shoe store for providing inexpensive shoes for any occasion. Parents loved the store, but children above 7 hated the Payless “experience”. Pay-Less […]
Whose memory is it anyways?
Memory laws are government actions designed to guide their citizens’ interpretation of history. The laws assert a mandatory viewpoint of historical events and forbids any conflicting interpretation of the same historical event. We have criticized memory laws for being an enemy to free speech. We also know memory laws as government censorship. In 1985, West […]
Ideology defeats military might
It seems so simple, superior military might should crush ideology. If you look at the real world results of this line of thinking, you can see it’s absolutely not true, and is a mistake the United States keeps repeating. I do not mean this article to disparage U.S. military people past and current, but to […]
2021 is just like 1890
After the Civil War, the U.S. government passed three Constitutional amendments in succession, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The 13th abolished slavery, the 14th gave African Americans equal protection under Federal law and the 15th gave African American men the right to vote. The losing forces on the other side of the Civil War […]