Herbert Hoover

I'll Raise You a Santa Claus

Marvin Meadors | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Thom Hartmann, Great Depression, Two Santa Claus, Social Security, Supply Side Economics, Democrats, Demand, Jude Wanniski, Medicare, Alan Viard, Republicans, Arthur Laffer, Council of Economic Advisers, Politics News
Marvin Meadors

So Democrats may have to come up with a new narrative. They can not flourish by promising to be the party that raises taxes and makes cuts to popular programs, even if they succeed in inheriting the Republican's former mantle as the party of fiscal responsibility.

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, American Exceptionalism, Turner Thesis, Rugged Conformists, Walter Huston, Cooperstown, Amish, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whiskey Rebellion, Theodore Roosevelt, Manhood at Harvard, Alexis De Tocqueville, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Gary Cooper, Jean-Paul Sartre, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Humphrey Bogart, Emma Lazarus, William James, B. Traven, Trust, The Moral Equivalent of War, Kim Townsend, Natty Bumppo, Barack Obama, John Huston, Rugged Individualism, Hawkeye, Francis Fukuyama, High Noon, Reading Terminal Market, Self-Reliance, Autarky, Deerslayer, Mind, Religion News
Dimitri Hamlin

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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PHOTOS: American Presidents, They Are Often Immigrants Too

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Presidents Day, Herbert Hoover, Video, Latino Politics, Chester A. Arthur, Obama Africa, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Immigration, Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, Presidents, Latino Voices News

This year, President’s Day celebration is filled with irony. We celebrate the nation's leaders at a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric, harsh ant...

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No Rags, No Riches -- Finding a Fiscal Policy That Makes Sense

Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Angela Merkel, Herbert Hoover, Fdr, Davos, Austerity, Greed, Economic Reform, Capitalism, Politics News
Curtis Roosevelt

Is Capitalism at fault, a flawed economic system? No. The problem is the way people use the free market, a system that readily responds to the compulsive appetite of greed. Without government imposed regulations we run amok.

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It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, D.C.

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Civil Rights Movement, Bonus Army, Martin Luther King, John Winthrop, Occupy Wall Street, Washington DC, Tea Party, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Wall Street may embody corrupt business practices, but Washington, D.C., is where the collusion between government and business occurs, and that is ultimately what the Occupiers should be targeting.

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PHOTOS: A Look Back At Past Presidential Vacations

The Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.11.2011

Read More: George Bush, Slideadbigshot, Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, Obama Martha's Vineyard, Calvin Coolidge, Obama Vacation, President Obama, Presidential Vacations, Franklin Roosevelt, President Vacation, Barack Obama, President, Dwight Eisenhower, Obama Hawaii, Fdr, Video, Style News

With the official confirmation of the Obamas' vacation plans, we decided to take a look back at where and how our nation's leaders chose to unwind. ...

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'Americans Elect' and Tom Friedman's Op-ed

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, President Obama, Americans Elect, Middle Class, Treasury Default, Main Street, Democrats, Politics, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Class Warfare, Sheila Bair, Bank Bailout, Tom Friedman, Republicans, Herbert Hoover, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Yesterday in his op-ed, Thomas L. Friedman wrote "Make Way For the Radical Center," bringing into focus the nascence of an organization meant to deal with "this kind of idiocy by elected officials."

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Inventor Of Major TV Technology Passes Away

AP | By PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Teleprompter, General Electric, Herbert Hoover, 20th Century Fox, The First Hundred Years, Hub Schlafly, Notre Dame, Hubert Schlafly, Hubert Hub Schlafly, Emmy Awards, Cable Television Hall of Fame, Television, Teleprompter Corp, Teleprompter Inventor, Emmys, Chicago, Republican National Convention, Mit, Technology News

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades' worth of soap opera actors, new...

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Why Donald Trump Is No Wendell Willkie

Asher Smith | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Political News, Birthers, 2012 Election, Donald Trump, Wendell Willkie, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump 2012, Christian Science Monitor, Politics News
Asher Smith

Is Donald Trump Wendell Willkie, the 1940 presidential candidate plucked from the private sector during the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia? The comparison is tempting.

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The First Girl Scout Cookie Drive

The History Chef | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scouts, Lou Hoover, Food News

So did you know that Herbert Hoover's wife "Lou" served as president of the Girl Scouts and helped coordinate one of the first Girl Scout Cookie Drive...

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Starve the Beast: How the GOP's Fiscal Policies Damage our Future

Rep. Jim Moran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget, Herbert Hoover, Environmental Policy, Middle Class, Fiscal Crisis, Austerity, Republican Part, Bush Tax Cuts, Fiscal Policy, National Debt, Conservatives, Revenue, Healthcare, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News
Rep. Jim Moran

Republicans have revealed that they are willing, in Washington as in Wisconsin, to place politics above people and exploit both real and manufactured fiscal crises to pursue ideological ends.

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The Danger of Losing the Base

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Progressives, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Fdr, Jfk, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Dr. Philip Neches

If you want to make money in the stock market, buy low and sell high. If you want to get and hold elective office in two-party America, secure your base in the primary and win the middle in the general.

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Republican Pledge: A Rotten Egg for the Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, Bp, Mortgage Underwater, Hedge Fund, Salmonella, Chicken in Every Pot, Congressional Budget Office, GOP Joint Committee on Taxation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Unemployment, Wall Street, Great Recession, Pledge to America, Health Care Reform, Foreclosure, Medicare, Recovery Act, Republicans, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Poverty Rate, Health Insurance Reform, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Jack and Peter DeCoster, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

In 1928, the Republicans promised Hoover's victory would assure the prosperity of "a chicken in every pot." This week, the GOP proffered a similar pledge to America: instead of a "chicken in every pot" they're pledging a salmonella-poisoned egg.

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Fairy Tales and History Rhymes

Garrett Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Barack Obama, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Garrett Johnson

America needs a bold, broad restructuring of our economic system. We need systemic financial reforms, as opposed to the token effort Congress has given us.

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Washington May Be Broken Now, But the Future Is Up for Grabs

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bp, Herbert Hoover, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Vanity Fair, President Obama, Warren G. Harding, Joe Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Esquire, George Packer, Todd Purdum, Dwight Eisenhower, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times, Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, Nassim Taleb, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Politics is ugly, always has been but the framers invented a government that would embody all the messy contradictions without threatening the collapse of the system.

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Greenspan, Rubin, and Herbert Hoover

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Herbert Hoover, Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Economy, Business News
Robert Reich

On Sunday, Robert Rubin, appearing on CNN, said any further effort to stimulate the economy would be "counter productive," and that policy makers instead should craft a deficit-reduction plan. Greenspan is only partly wrong. Rubin is entirely wrong.

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Hoover v. Roosevelt: Decision 2010

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Congress, Pat Boone, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, Midterm Elections, Harry Reid, Democratic Party, Sharron Angle, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
Daniel Cluchey

The truth of the matter is that, no matter how craftily television's conservative bitterati attempts to discredit them, progressive leaders have successfully managed our economy and conservative leaders have not.

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Leonhardt: Financial Reform Needs a Bank Tax

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Herbert Hoover, Bank Tax, Lehman Brothers, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Aig, Timothy Geithner, Business News

The financial regulation bill before the Senate has the potential to do a lot of good. But it also has at least one major flaw: it would not do enough...

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"The Vicious Circle of Debt and Depression: It Is a Class war

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Sovereign Debt, Class Warfare, Banksters, Debt Repudiation, Home News
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Never before has so much debt been imposed on so many people by so few financial operatives--operatives who work from Wall Street, the largest casino ...

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Old Drinking Song, Lyrics From 1814, a National Anthem in 1931

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flag, Toronto, Washington, 1776, 1814, Francis Scott Key, Star Spangled Banner, Herbert Hoover, Fort McHenry, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

The Star Spangled Banner did not become the national anthem until 1916 when President Wilson declared it by Executive Order. But it wasn't until 1931 that it became the National Anthem by Congressional resolution.

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Time to Try Government as Employer of Last Resort

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Roosevelt-Institute, Social Security, Unemployment, Federal Deficit, New Deal 2.0, Herbert Hoover, Business News
Marshall Auerback

The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit."

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Barack Obama: Left-Handed? Right-Handed? Ambidextrous? Ambivalent?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry S. Truman, Left-Handed, Bill Clinton, International Left-Handed Day, Golf, Right-Handed, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Ambidextrous, Professor Stephen Christman, George G. W. Bush, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Martha's Vineyard, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
David Finkle

I suspect the convictions that seem somewhat wobbly now that Obama has attained the nation's highest office would immediately strengthen if he looked his two hands over and committed once and for all to the left one.

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The GOP's Road to Perdition

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama Administration, Polling, Congressional Republicans, Herbert Hoover, Subprime Mortgages, Herbert Hoover George W. Bush, Financial Meltdown, Gop, The-Art-of-War, Sun Tzu, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

Even life-long Republicans like Waldport and Oregon Mayor Herman Welch have left the party, citing the Beltway's Republicans placing of "worn out ideology," over the interests of the country.

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What Wonders He Has Seen

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Gold Rush, Wrigley Field, Peter Seitz, Arthur Gidden, Great Recession, Burleigh Grimes, Yankees, Boston Braves, Fenway Park, Black Sox Scandal, Red Sox, Ty Cobb, Commissioner Landis, Great Depression, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Entertainment News
Roger I. Abrams

On Saturday, April 24, we went to Fenway Park to see Arthur Giddon, the Red Sox honorary bat boy. Also scheduled was a match bet...

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