President Roosevelt

In Egypt Follow the Advice of President Theodore Roosevelt

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Egypt, Edmund Morris, Arab Spring, President Theodore Roosevelt, President Roosevelt, Tahrir Square, World News

Almost exactly 100 years ago President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the General Assembly of Cairo University. Egypt was then, as it is today, in political turmoil.

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The Republicans' Dark Side: Their Job-Killing Machine

Harlan Green | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, President Roosevelt, 1936 Presidental Campaign, Great Depression, Fdr, Business News

How do we put the dark side of 'U.S.' back into its bottle? The huge stock market losses make it harder for even the no-tax free marketers to deny the results of their work. The free market had spoken, after all, and did not like what it saw.

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Super Winners Have No Score To Settle

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japanese American Internment, San Jose, President Roosevelt, Final Solution, Holocaust, Wannsee Conference, Executive Order 9066, Japanese Americans, World War II, Holocaust Survivors, Super Bowl, Super Bowl 2011, Politics News

Two life-altering events that took place nearly seven decades ago receive little attention and are primarily observed by members of the two groups who experienced them.

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The Republican Party Today, Part 2: The Sucker Wing

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kleptomania, Patriotism, Constitution of the United States, Republican Party, Feudalism, President Roosevelt, Politics News

Disagreement, for many of Glenn Beck's followers, adds up to a consistent conclusion: We are True Americans, and liberals, the "hate America crowd," are knowingly and deliberately working to destroy it.

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Obama's Brave Decison to Drill Offshore

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norway's National Oil Trust, Politics, President Roosevelt, President Obama, Oil, Green, Norway, Tennessee Valley Authority, Offshore Drilling, Business News

Obama should seize this moment by establishing our own National Oil Trust. It could be modeled after our experience with the TVA and that of the world's third largest energy exporter, Norway's National Oil Trust.

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Oil Spewing in the Gulf: Now Is the Time for the National Renewable Energy Trust

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, President Roosevelt, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Oil, Green, Norway, Tennessee Valley Authority, Continental Shelf, Gulf Oil Spill, Business News

The revenues from oil and gas deposits should be channeled toward developing alternative energy sources as the cornerstone of a viable program for breaking our increasingly dangerous dependency on fossil fuels.

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It's Time to Hold Wall Street Accountable

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Congress, Alabama, Senate, Jefferson County, Ronald Reagan, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, President Roosevelt, Main Street, Republican Allies, New Deal Democrats, Taxpayers, Great Depression, Politics News

The Senate needs to resist the efforts of Wall Street and their Republican allies and pass this legislation immediately. The debate has gone on long enough.

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Barack Hussein Obama: Tiger or Pussy Cat?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, President Ronald Reagan, Unemployment, Senator Edward Kennedy, Making College Affordable, President Roosevelt, Afordable Credit, President Obama, President Bush, Reformed Health-Care, Partisanship, Forclosure, Affordable Housing, Great Depression, Politics News

Anyone with ideas to the contrary learned this week that Barack Obama cannot walk on water. But even if he could, it would do no good, not so far as his opponents are concerned.

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When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.

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As Bush Lifts Restrictions on Offshore Drilling, We Need a TVA for Oil/Gas Production

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Congress, US Outer Continental Shelf, President Bush, Tva, President Roosevelt, National Oil/Gas Production Authority, Politics News

The creation of a "National Oil/Gas Production Authority," with responsibility to explore and develop oil, gas and shale oil deposits on national lands and the Continental Shelf would be a boon to the nation.

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