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For over 115 years.

What would make you think it's any worse now? Yellow journalism has a long glorious history. It has propped up the drug war for 80 years. By shaping a complacent, submissive public's opinion, it serves the government agenda quite well. Sorry, nothing new to see here. It's the same as it ever was.

I heard that a Federal phone tax was implemented to help pay for WWII.

Actually the Federal Excise Tax was implemented in 1898 to pay for Spanish American War.

The Sims-Dudley Dynamite Gun was used in the Spanish-American war.

Bing, Bing, Bing, opps, your half right. I was going to say more than 150 years (California), but I thought of the Spanish American War) as a gotcha. One of the conquests of that war, the Phillipies could arguably be called a colony. But if you consider colonization to include "importing" population with an eye on keeping the place then Guam or Puerto Rico.

Bing, Bing, Bing, opps, your half right. I was going to say more than 150 years (California), but I thought of the Spanish American War) as a gotcha. One of the conquests of that war, the Phillipies could arguably be called a colony. But if you consider colonization to include "importing" population with an eye on keeping the place then Guam or Puerto Rico.

The USS Maine was sunk in 1898, resulting in the U.S. attacking Spanish colonial interests. In 1912, the Maine was raised, investigated by the U.S. and then scuttled. These are the known facts. The conspiracy theories arise over the question of who or what sunk the ship. Did the U.S. intentionally sink the ship to provide a reason to attack Spain's colonies? Hmmm.