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| Cillizza's Folly: CNN edits article criticizing purchase of Alaska in Greenland debate |
| 2019-08-17 |
| [Washington Examiner] CNN host and analyst Chris Cillizza criticized the 1867 purchase of Alaska by the United States in a Friday opinion article detailing the potential problems if the U.S. pursued the purchase of Greenland. "One of the last times the United States bought land from a foreign country was in 1867, when Seward orchestrated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million," Cillizza wrote. "It didn't work out so well -- and has gone down as 'Seward's Folly' in the history books." On Friday evening, the language of the article was adjusted to remove the sentence, "It didn't work out so well." The new version stated that the purchase of Alaska was "heavily criticized." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Didn't we buy the Virgin Islands from Denmark a bit over 100 years ago? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2019-08-17 09:50 |
| #3 Chris Cilliza is an idiot. That is all |
| Posted by: Frank g 2019-08-17 08:26 |
| #2 Illiterate talking heads never heard or read of gold and oil. * Alaska does not have a state income tax. * Alaska does not have a sales tax, though some areas like Wasilla do have a small sales tax. * Alaska does have property taxes, but there are exclusions and incentives for seniors. * Of course there is also the Alaska Permanent Fund, essentially a rebate to Alaska residents that is typically over $1,000 per year. You can understand why confiscatory socialists/commies hate it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-08-17 07:39 |
| #1 *Sigh* I can see arguments that our entanglement in the Philippines was a bad idea. Or Puerto Rico. But, Alaska? At this point posing the counter-factual is like trying to make eggs out of a 3-egg cheese omelette. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-08-17 02:27 |