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2 Dec 2013, 9:36 am
In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt made 173 recess appointments during a purely nominal break between sessions at noon on December 8. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 4:37 pm
Theodore Roosevelt Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, NY And this sort of content-based social networking, the way I am conceptualizing it, is a real conversation renewed with the launching of each post. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 9:38 am
That is, for American imperialists such as Theodore Roosevelt no less than for the British empire, democracy was appropriate to the 'white race' which had alone reached a state of self-government.The trend since 1945, however, has been to make racism invisible - as Robert Vitalis puts it, there is a pervasive 'norm against noticing' the way in which the global order is powerfully structured by race … It would be pedantic to list the examples of democratic… [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:51 am
” Greenwald mentions the example of Theodore Roosevelt, recently revived in Osawatomie by President Obama. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am
The rivalry of the “official” Cold War may have ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December, 1991, but John Lewis Gaddis still has an ax to grind. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:52 am
" Greenwald mentions the example of Theodore Roosevelt, recently revived in Osawatomie by President Obama. [read post]
10 May 2010, 8:06 pm
Over the weekend, I published an op-ed in The Des Moines Register encouraging the FCC to heed the lessons of the first national broadband plan, the one Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin sent to Congress in 1808. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 7:56 am
Chaco refers to a southwestern United States’ cultural complex containing over 4,000 archaeological sites on the Colorado plateau of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico.[3] It was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its “monumental public and ceremonial buildings and architecture,”[4] the remarkability of which is due to the level of preservation maintained in such a climatically harsh geographic area as well as the level of craftsmanship by the creators.[5] These sites… [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 9:52 am
He writes, apparently assuming the economic truth of his theory of monopoly, that: These negative effects are why people like Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis and Thurman Arnold regarded monopoly as an evil to be destroyed by the federal courts. [read post]
14 Sep 2006, 5:23 am
September 14 , 2006Re: The Pretexter Stain: Let History Know You Want To Be Included Out.From: Dean Lawrence R. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 11:43 am
March 14, 2008Re: Hypocrisy Holds High Carnival, And Other Recent Travesties Of The Political/Media Complex. [read post]
27 May 2020, 6:31 am
No one can predict the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, but what should Americans expect if Joe Biden wins? [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 7:27 pm
The historic deal broke an enduring stalemate between two countries divided by just 90 miles of water but oceans of mistrust and hostility dating from the days of Theodore Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill and the nuclear brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 2:18 pm
Two seminal events have occurred in recent days in the ongoing oversight war between the House of Representatives and the Trump administration—and in the ongoing expansion of the doctrine of executive privilege. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
What is “executive privilege”? [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 6:09 am
But Theodore Roosevelt consistently battled the “trusts,” and in his 1912 campaign (running now under the banner of the Progressive Party, rather than as a Republican), Roosevelt recommended strong federal regulation to offset corporate power. [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 5:22 pm
Sociologist Elise Boulding has said that we live in a “200 year present,” a “social space which reaches into the past and into the future” -- a space in which “we can move around directly in our own lives and indirectly by touching the lives of the young and old around us. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 2:48 pm
Some say it was done as a matter of political reform, to curb the growing power of corporations in politics — that is, the capacity of Big Business to “buy” influence, a reality demonstrated back then by what was known as the New York Life Insurance scandals over secret corporate donations to Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign in 1904. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 5:54 am
Among many significant revelations coming out of the hearings of the January 6 select committee is information concerning Dominion Voting Systems. [read post]
