True confession: I adore Teddy Roosevelt. In fact, I have the original sheet music "We're Ready for Teddy Again" from Teddy's run for the Presidency from the Bull Moose Party.President Theodore Roosevelt was...
"DEAD BODYGUARDS Maj. Gen. William Robertson,Deputy Commanding General, V Corps, Europe Col William Densberger,V Corps Chief of Operations and Plans Col. Robert Kelly,V Corps Chief of Intelligence Spec. Gary Rhodes, Crew Chief died: 2/23/93 - All were killed when...
Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Steve Allen - mystery writers? Didthey really take the time out of their celebrity-hood to craft, write and rewrite those mystery novels you see on the bookshelf?
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Alphonso Jackson, who's being replaced, is leaving behind a housing mess, mortgage crisis--and a criminal investigation. Among other things, Jackson is alleged to have favored friends and cronies in HUD contracts."President Bush on Friday chose SBA Administrator Steve Preston...
Clinton needs to start paying a lot more attention to what she's saying and who she's saying it to. The media will check the facts...whether it's dodging sniper fire and claiming you were the first first lady...
"LAS CRUCES — It was Jan. 18, 1933 — 75 years ago today — and President Herbert Hoover was two days away from turning his Depression-wracked presidency over to Franklin Roosevelt.
One of his last acts was to...
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The whole plan to destroy Western civilization is spelled
out by Chavez’s top adviser Heinz Dieterich. If the Western Powers
disregard the very plain strategy that is being hatched by the enemies
of the US, Japan,...
Good and Not So Good Behavior This Week
Geraldo Rivera apologized to Michelle Malkin of the Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly show “The Factor” last night. Mr. Rivera had said he would spit of Ms. Malkin if he saw her. He made the remark to a Boston Globe reporter...
"Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a...
You wouldn't want to mess with this kid. This 19 month old could show you a thing or two in the gymnastics ring, or on the football field. His massive strength is technically an abnormality, but what an ailment to...
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"Marie Jordan Speer and Jessica Byrd each sent a husband to war. Each became a widow in her early 20s. Speer had a 1-year-old son. Byrd was pregnant with her son. Suddenly on their own, both women were again dependent on their families. The biggest difference between their...
"This week saw a small and telling controversy involving a mural on the walls of Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles. The mural is big--400 feet long, 18 feet high at its peak--and eye-catching, as would be anything that "presents a colorful depiction of the rape, slaughter...
"George Packer: “Betrayed” Lunkewitz, Joe
The New Yorker staff writer George Packer answers readers’ questions about his article “Betrayed,” from the issue of April 2, 2007."
" BY AMEEN IZZADEEN 2 January 2007 WHEN the advisors of former US President Franklin D Roosevelt discussed the human rights situation in Nicaragua under the pro-American dictator Anastasio Somoza, Roosevelt is reported to have said, "Somoza may be a son of a b----, but he's...
"Let's face it - Time's Person of the Year has been neither satisfying nor particularly daring since Newt Gingrich was named Person of the Year in 1995. Since then, Time has been more concerned with picking a...
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