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Vonage: Don’t Let This Happen to You

August 4, 2009

In May 2009, we signed up with Vonage in order to escape the greedy clutches of our local telephone provider, Fair Point Communications, which charges outrageous prices for turning our phones on and off while we are away, and a large premium for “wide area” dialing anywhere outside one sliver of Carroll County, New Hampshire. [...]

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Dardanelles Then, Afghanistan Now

July 4, 2009

Writing in the Los Angeles Times (“Obama’s Strategic Blind Spot,” July 6th), Professor Andrew J. Bacevich considered the war in Afghanistan against Churchill’s experience in World War I. Churchill, he says, looked for alternatives to “sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders,” just as we should be looking for alternatives to chewing dust [...]

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Songs Churchill Would Love: “Willie McBride”

June 27, 2009

Sir Martin Gilbert’s moving book, The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War, ends with verses by the Scottish-Australian songwriter Eric Bogle, which carry an evergreen message to all generations, and capture what Churchill thought of modern war—which he tried so hard, before both World Wars, to avoid. Sir Martin writes that in [...]

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Churchill Books for Young Readers

June 26, 2009

Please send me some book recommendations on Churchill’s life for young readers. By young, I mean a boy of seven years old. My nephew asked me about the book I was reading (Churchill: The Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison), and after I told him a little bit about it, he wanted to know more. I’d appreciate [...]

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Pearl Harbor: Did Churchill Know?

June 25, 2009

This may seem like a silly question but it was brought up by a supposed World War II “historian,” with no proof, of course. The person stated that Churchill “tricked” Franklin Roosevelt into joining the war effort. Is there any proof of this or is it just a myth?  I find it hard to believe. [...]

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