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6 Apr 2007, 6:23 am
Boettke Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University; Peter T. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by JB
., the Libertarian Party and the Green Party) that regularly field candidates, but because of the way our electoral system is designed, they tend not to win very many elections.In the past, influential third parties have been one-person affairs (George Wallace's American Party, Ross Perot's independent candidacy) that fade as soon as their leader's political power fades. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
So suicides are a much larger source of prisoner deaths than executions in Texas.Full 5th Circuit to hear case of teen framed by Brownsville policeThe full 5th Circuit will hear en banc a case about which Grits has written a couple of times, and on which we did a podcast segment last July: George Alvarez was a slight 17-year old in Brownsville when he was framed by police for assaulting an office. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 12:14 pm by Lovechilde
  Charles Pierce has reminded us that it has been "one long, continuous plague of Republican extremism that began quietly when the party moved west and south in its orientation, and when Richard Nixon discovered that George Wallace was onto something that could be immensely useful to a shrewd and brilliant code-talker like Nixon himself. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 12:24 pm by Sandy Levinson
"  Social conservatives might well like the Electoral College, incidentally, if they figure, probably rightly, that they can win at least the same number of electoral votes won by Strom Thurmond or George Wallace and, should the election be thrown into the House (which, remember picks a Preisdent on a one-state/one-vote basis), be able to exercise great influence at least over the Cabinet picks of ultimate winner. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 10:19 am by Katherine Pompilio
The event will feature remarks from Carnegie President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar and New York Times writer David Wallace-Wells about the state of the climate crisis and how the United States, China, and Europe can reduce their disproportionate impacts on the emergency. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 12:36 pm by Lovechilde
  As Charles Pierce reminds us, it has been "one long, continuous plague of Republican extremism that began quietly when the party moved west and south in its orientation, and when Richard Nixon discovered that George Wallace was onto something that could be immensely useful to a shrewd and brilliant code-talker like Nixon himself. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by CPoplin
Participants will include Brandon Valeriano, Rob Knake, Michael Sulmeyer, Jen Weedon and Ian Wallace. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 6:38 am
But the first blog post on Tuesday didn't go up until 7:56, and it was about a WaPo columnist's abstruse effort to support his assertion that it's "'trivial to compare' Roy Moore's trying to stop gay marriage in Alabama to George Wallace's blocking the door to racial integration at the University of Alabama. [read post]
On March 7, 1965 voting rights supporters, led by John Lewis and others, attempted a march from Selma, Ala. to the state capitol in Montgomery to present then-Governor George Wallace with a list of grievances, demanding the fundamental right to vote for all. [read post]
29 May 2007, 11:51 pm
Filburn following the 1940 election.To show why Nixon's election is the ratifying event, Ackerman contrasts Nixon's position with George Wallace, who won about 13.5 percent of the vote in 1968. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 2:30 am by Jack Sharman
  In American history, Foster Auditorium will be remembered as the site of Governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand In The Schoolhouse Door” on 11 June 1963. [read post]
9 May 2012, 10:40 am by Rob Stigile
George Wallace, who was attempting to physically block the entrance to the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium in protest of the enrollment of two black students. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 7:00 am by Eric Turkewitz
It picks up where it left off, most appropriately with an April Fool’s prequel at George Wallace’s  A Fool in the Forest. [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:20 am by Margaret Wood
General Jubal Early led 15,000 Confederate soldiers who engaged with 6,600 Union troops led by Major General Lew Wallace. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 12:03 am
  But couldn't she at least be self aware enough to avoid using language that tracts George Wallace's famous "segregation today ... segregation tomorrow... segregation forever" speech? [read post]