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National ‘presidents and margarita day’
Following on the heels of Presidents day was National Margarita Day – which was actually yesterday – but take this opportunity to enjoy a mashup of the two with some presidential/beverage moments....
View ArticleJimmy Carter interview on ‘Argo’
From the Piers Morgan show – here’s a bit: MORGAN: You’ve seen “Argo,” I take it? How accurate is it from your memory?CARTER: Well, let me say, first of all, it’s a great drama. And I hope it gets the...
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Abraham Lincoln, Frontier Wrestler – and other wrestling presidents
Abraham Lincoln is best known for his tenure as president, but he is also an inductee to the national wrestling hall of fame in Stillwater, OK. An accomplished frontier wrestler, he took all comers...
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Well, there goes summer … Great White Sharks
now apparently own Florida. But how will this affect the 2016 presidential race?
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The so-called Fourth Estate
From TRAC, “Media Making Fewer Challenges to Government Secrecy in Federal Court”:
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An interesting graphic of presidential state of the union messages over time
The long and short of it – from The American Presidency Project.
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Race in the War on Drugs: The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric
Our paper “Race in the War on Drugs The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric” can be found on SSRN. It was presented at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies and published in the Journal...
View ArticlePolitical History – 1956 Party Platforms on Labor
These don’t take nearly as long to read as you might think. I’ve ‘bolded’ selected passages for those who don’t want to read the whole thing. (The bolding is based on nothing other than things that...
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Presidents and their hats
Behold presidents with hats And a cool video on presidents and hats after the jump!
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The story behind the famous Elvis/Nixon photo
Is told on Buzzfeed with a series of related photos. (Hint: there is a War on Drugs theme). As a side note, the photo above must be one of the most bizarre celebrity couple pictures I’ve ever seen.
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The five best books on George W. Bush?
Jacob Weisberg says these are the five best books on the George W. Bush presidency: The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty by Peter and Rochelle Schweizer Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by...
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“What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted”
What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House is a new study of popular culture in the White House. The blurb: From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural...
View ArticleIt is hard to destroy nerve gas
That, too, is a slow process, said Kuhlman. Construction on an incinerator at Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah, which held 45 percent of the nation’s chemical weapons stockpile, started in 1989. Testing...
View ArticleBinge-watching with Obama
From Margaret Carlson at Bloomberg View: Obama hearted “Cards” just a few weeks ago when he took aside Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings at a White House meeting of technology gurus to...
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