Grover Cleveland

An Offer He'll Have to Refuse

Charlie Carillo | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Chris Christie, Godfather, Mario Cuomo, Charles Lachman, Italian-Americans, Goodfellas, Grover Cleveland, White House, Organized Crime, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie Presidency, New York News

This political love-fest between Governor Chris Christie and these people begging him to run for president is going to end abruptly when the big guy realizes something that others have realized before him.

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It's Personal and Political: Stigma and Cancer

Doug Ulman | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Grover Cleveland Cancer, Global Health, Cancer, Cancer Stigma, Livestrong, Grover Cleveland, Impact News

Stigma against cancer is personal and political, and, if neglected at the community, national and global level, it will be perpetual, too.

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A Look At History's Most Notable Fathers: Good, Bad And Ugly

Greg Olear | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Leopold Mozart, Yahweh, Chris Christie, Doc Rockefeller, Rodrigo Borgia, Jon Gosselin, Famous Fathers, Levi Johnston, Travis Henry, Cecil Jacobsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dr. Spock, Grover Cleveland, Sarah Palin, Genghis Khan, Fred Trump, Parents-Dads, Parents News

Leopold Mozart (b. 1719): The first known Stage Father. Managed his child-prodigy son's career with an iron fist, which turned out to be a good thing for music but a bad thing for little Wolfie. Said to be the inspiration for "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother".

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Paradise Lost

Henry J. Stern | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Buffalo, Mt. Morris, John Giardino, Tim Russert, Ontario, Oakville, Upstate New York, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Jonathan Cohen, New York Economy, New York Jobs, Upstate New York Jobs, New York News

There is a cloud hanging over upstate New York. Many of the 62 counties which comprise the state are an economic wasteland. There is not enough business activity to provide jobs for the population.

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Stay Classy, Politicos

Edward Headington | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Eric Massa, Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Ronald Reagan, Sex Scandal, Robert Greene, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Big Government, Don't Tweet Your Junk, Hyman Roth, Weinergate, Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Child, John Tyner, Grover Cleveland, Christopher Lee, Los Angeles News

Careers built over a lifetime can be ended in the amount of take it takes to hit "upload" or click "comment." Given that realization and Rep. Weiner's Twitter travails, here are five rules for aspiring politicos.

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Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and The Actor JFK (and Jackie) Wanted To Play Him

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Actors, Washington, The Kennedys, Film Production, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, Hollywood, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Media News

Whether filtered by an archivist, historian, editor, screenwriter, actor or director, perspective on the life of another person is ultimately subjective - and there's no group of people more highly susceptible to the subjective than the presidents.

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The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Welfare, Social Security, Unemployment, Calvin Coolidge, Poorhouse, Economy, The New Deal, Unemployment Benefits, Glenn Beck, Grover Cleveland, Politics News

An employee of Associated Charities, a private organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in the District of Columbia, met an old black woman carry...

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Negativity and Partisan (De)Mobilization in the 2010 Midterms

Michael Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pollster Analysis, Purdue University, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, 2010 Elections, Political Ads, Negativity, Democrats, Tea Party, Wesleyan, Republicans, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

Very few subjects stir interest like negative campaigns; voters dislike them; political consultants adore them; and political scientists scrutinize them. Two contradictory points are evident.

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The Next Grover Cleveland?

David Gray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama Polls, Mid-Term Elections, Grover Cleveland, Politics News

Could you see Barack Obama being elected President for two different, separate administrations? Now there are many differences between Cleveland and Obama on many levels. However, electorally, they could end up being similar.

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Eric Massa is Taking Back the Spotlight From the Starlets

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Sanford, Eric Massa, Lindsay Lohan, John Ensign, Caligula, John Edwards, Larry King, Victorians, Fox News, Navy, Wyatt Earp, Glenn Beck, Grover Cleveland, Actors, Thomas Jefferson, Entertainment News

When actors were seen as vermin, the object of our affections and repugnance were people with actual power: politicians. Politicians like Massa are just taking back their country from Hollywood.

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Presidential Facial Hair: The Good, The Bad And The Grizzly (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Benjamin Harrison, Chester Alan Arthur, James Garfield, Mustache, Martin Van Buren, Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Former Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft, Mustaches, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Beard, Style News

The President of the United States has to put his best face forward...and sometimes it's covered in hair. President Obama claims he can't grow a beard...

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Hey John Edwards: Come Back! The "Other America" Needs You

Carlos Watson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Edwards, Marion Barry, John Edwards, Benjamin Netanyahu, Grover Cleveland, Rielle Hunter, Politics News

Edwards was right then, and he'd be right now. Leveling the playing field will yield a more just America, and a more economically and socially dynamic America, as well.

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In With the New

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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Media Pundits, Stop Talking About the Same Thing: Do Something Useful and Plot to Castrate the Electoral College

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abc, Al Gore, Benjamin Harrison, John McCain, Nbc, Cbs, Election Results, Barack Obama, Msnbc, Samuel Tilden, Cnn, Michael Russnow, Media Pundits, Fox News, Electoral College, Grover Cleveland, Oregon, Media News

Amazingly, with all the frenetic emotion of the 2000 election nothing was done -- to abolish our outmoded and increasingly stupid Electoral College.

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