Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend and our parents often inspire us to be the best we can be. Parents believe we can achieve anything we set our minds to — even becoming President of the United States if that is our ultimate goal. For a select group of Presidents, they were fortunate enough to…
Abraham Lincoln’s body paraded in the New York streets. The boys circled in red in the window is future president Teddy Roosevelt and his brother.
How will Tina Brown illustrate Obama’s gay marriage announcement?
A compilation of TNR suggested Newsweek covers.
Tina: “LOL.”
What are the top ten most censored countries? According to new analysis by the Committe to Protect Journalists, they are:
- Eritrea
- North Korea
- Syria
- Iran
- Equatorial Guinea
- Uzbekistan
- Burma
- Saudi Arabia
- Cuba
- Belarus
Happy World Press Freedom Day….
Time to cancel that spring break trip to Eritrea…
The Lost Sp, Andrew Meier (F, 20s, short hair flipped up at the ends, flowered skirt, red nails, leather jacket, L train) http://bit.ly/K1q6gT
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Joe Hagan:
[Bush] was the son of power and privilege who for years lived in the shadow of his father, a heroic World War II pilot, and who tried becoming a pilot himself, but in the National Guard while avoiding Vietnam. Then he bows out in less than two years, possibly because he became afraid to land the plane.
Flash forward, Bush starts a Vietnam-like war, finishing off his father’s “unfinished” business, and then lands in a jet fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit to celebrate his victory. You don’t have to be Freud to see the connections here. His National Guard history can be seen as the psychological blueprint of his entire presidency.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3cpx9HKLl1qz802uo1_500.jpg)
[Bush] was the son of power and privilege who for years lived in the shadow of his father, a heroic World War II pilot, and who tried becoming a pilot himself, but in the National Guard while avoiding Vietnam. Then he bows out in less than two years, possibly because he became afraid to land the plane.
Flash forward, Bush starts a Vietnam-like war, finishing off his father’s “unfinished” business, and then lands in a jet fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit to celebrate his victory. You don’t have to be Freud to see the connections here. His National Guard history can be seen as the psychological blueprint of his entire presidency.
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reuters:
DEVELOPING:
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker upon his arrival at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan May 1, 2012. [REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque]
READ MORE: Obama lands in Afghanistan on OBL death anniversary
Meanwhile, the President has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czvvVZ9r1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
DEVELOPING:
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker upon his arrival at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan May 1, 2012. [REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque]
READ MORE: Obama lands in Afghanistan on OBL death anniversary
Meanwhile, the President has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
Here’s an example of the front porch campaigning I mentioned in the last answer. This is William McKinley in 1896 campaigning from his front porch in Ohio.
Since a candidate actively campaigning for office was considered unseemly, everything was organized under the idea that the candidate was being called to service by the people. Groups would magically gather at the home of the candidate — in this case, McKinley — at a certain time and the candidate would magically appear and give an “impromptu” speech that sounded suspiciously like a stump speech. I believe the last President to do the front porch campaign was Warren G. Harding in 1920. After that, everyone pretty much dropped the facade and stopped pretending they didn’t badly want to be President.
Are you as sad as Newt is about the curtains coming down on his campaign? If so, let us know what you think Newt’s next act should be. We like him for Zoo Czar or Moon Ambassador. Or, Dancing With the Stars, anyone?
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RuPaul’s ‘Drag Race’ contestant! Seriously. He’d kill it.
In 1978, the Roman Catholic Church experienced the most recent occurrence of a rather rare phenomenon in its history: the Year of Three Popes. On August 6th, Pope Paul VI died following a 15-year reign. Less than three weeks later, Pope John Paul I was elected to succeed him, but the new Pope…
Destroying Latin America: Journalist Mary O’Grady on Populism, Protectionism, and Prohibition
“The inequality produced by liberty: This, for the socialist, is the soft underbelly of pro-market rationale and the best place to attack,” says Mary O’Grady, a columnist who covers Latin America for the Wall Street Journal. “I would argue that it’s the intellectual stream that prevails in Latin America, and it’s the reason the region can not hope to reach its potential any time soon.”
O’Grady made a presentation at Reason Weekend 2012, Reason Foundation’s annual donor event. He talked about why Latin American countries are so susceptible to socialism and identified the “three P’s” of “Populism, Protectionism, and Prohibition” as the primary sources of the region’s biggest problems.
About 32 minutes. Filmed by Joshua Swain and Anthony Fisher. Edited by Zach Weissmueller.
John Wilkes Booth, wanted for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was found hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, by a platoon of New York Cavalry and shot on April 26, 1865.
