Author Archives: Rik Schneider

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About Rik Schneider

Blogger/writer on a lot of different subjects.

Charlemagne Dumdum Calotes: Race For The White House- Richard Nixon vs John Kennedy 1960

Source:The New Democrat 1960 between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, was one of the last presidential elections in America that was about ideas, vision, experience, and qualifications. Instead of having two unlikable candidates who know they’re unlikable and unpopular and … Continue reading

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Jack Ruby: Lee Harvey Oswald Assassin

Source:Britannica– Dallas nightclub owner and perhaps part-time Dallas Mafia assassin Jack Ruby. Source:The New Democrat  “Jack Ruby, in full Jack L. Ruby, original name Jacob Rubenstein, (born March 25?, 1911, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 3, 1967, Dallas, Texas), American nightclub … Continue reading

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Victor D. Hanson: ‘Rethinking Watergate’

Source:Hoover Institution– where the Watergate scandal all started. You can also see this post at The FreeState, on Blogger. “The Watergate break-in is now 45 years old. The scandal is as distant from our own time as it was once from … Continue reading

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Daniel J. Mitchell: ‘Three More Reasons To Laugh At Communism’

“I sometimes feel guilty when I mock communism. Should I really be joking about an ideology that directly or indirectly caused 100 million deaths? Are laughs appropriate when there is ongoing torture, abuse, and starvation in communist hellholes such as … Continue reading

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John Birch Society: John F. McManus- Understanding Donald Trump

Source:John Birch Society If there is one group that you think would stick with a President like Donald Trump, it would be the John Birch Society. They’ve been talking about what he ran on for President and what he’s been … Continue reading

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Patrick J. Buchanan: 1968: The Year The Silent Majority Was Born

Source:The New Democrat I believe you have to understand the 1960s and 1967-68 especially to understand the great political comeback of Richard Nixon and the rebirth of the Republican Party. Once you know what this time was and what it … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Molly Worthen- Lectures in History: 20 Century Fundamentalism

Source:The New Democrat According to Wikipedia: A fundamentalist, “is a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion.” That could cover any religion anywhere in the world but generally its’s Protestants in America and Muslims … Continue reading

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Bloodletters & Badmen: Virginia Hill- Mistress To The Mob

Source:The New Democrat If you watch the movie Bugsy from 1991 with Warren Beatty playing Ben Siegel with Annette Being playing Siegel’s mistress Virginia Hill, the movie portrays Virginia as much more than a mobster’s mistress. Mistresses are common with … Continue reading

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Mob Video Vault: Mobsters- Benjamin Bugsy Siegel

Source:The New Democrat  One of my favorite quotes about Ben Siegel was about his friendship with actor George Raft. The quote being that Ben Siegel was a mobster who wanted to be an actor. And George Raft was an actor … Continue reading

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The Michael Parkinson Show: John Wayne: On The Hollywood Blacklist, The American Way of Life & High Noon

Source:The New Democrat I sort of see John Wayne as the original 20th Century Tea Party leader and defender of what he and people who thought like him of American values and their American way of life. And that people … Continue reading

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