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When Did Americans Stop Naming Babies After the President?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Baby Names, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Historical Baby Names, Presidential History, Naming a Baby, Woodrow Wilson, Popular Baby Names, Babies, Parents News

There was a time when parents often named baby boys after the President of the United States. Yet today, neither Barack, Hussein nor Obama have reached the top 1,000 most popular boy names in the U.S.

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The Assault on Civil Liberties Continues

Allan Brawley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Barak Obama, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, Lusk Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Palmer-Raids, National Security, Franklin Roosevelt, Japanese Internment, Nypd Antiterror, Woodrow Wilson, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Assaults on our constitutional protections are not new. They have been a recurring phenomenon for at least the last hundred years.

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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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Dabbling in the Arab World

Kevin Bunkley | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Woodrow Wilson, President Obama, Wilsonian Diplomacy, Middle East, Muammar El-Qaddafi, National Transitional Council, Foreign Policy, World War I, Libya, North Africa, Al Qaeda, Libyan Revolution, Arab World, Obama Doctrine, Arab Spring, Politics News

It is possible that President Obama is reverting back to a new version of Wilsonian diplomacy in order to let the Arab world sort itself out, instead of directly affecting the outcome with U.S. intervention.

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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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Michelle Obama Makes First Lady History... and What Was She Wearing?

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Michelle Obama, Ida Mckinley, Ronald Reagan, Dolley Madison, Rosalynn Carter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Presidents, Betty Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, Flornece Harding, First Ladies, Mary Lincoln, Nellie Taft, Ellen Wilson, Laddie Boy, Laura Bush, Gerald Ford, Martha Washington, Hillary Clinton, Lady Bird Johnson, Lbj, Barbara Bush, William Howard Taft, Harriet Lane, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Politics News

It was a gray dress. Enough said. Credit/Getty Images More vital to the long-term interests of the nation than the clothes she wore one particular...

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Google Ranking The Presidents

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

We find that the Google rankings of presidents corresponds very well to historians' rankings.

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Obama's Economic Philosophy

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Janesville, Economic Crisis, Transportation, Clean Energy, Mortgage Crisis, Joe Biden, Woodrow Wilson, Jeffrey Immelt, Barack Obama, Infrastructure, Obama's State of the Union, Progressive Movement, Boehner, State of the Union, Politics News

President Obama reaffirmed his economic philosophy in the State of the Union address -- a government that works, invests, delivers opportunity, and that we can believe in. It is a lean government, not a big government.

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Obama Isn't Doing Enough to Scare America, says Christian Science Monitor

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

According to the Christian Science Monitor, if you protest being molested in an airport, that's a sure sign that you are not afraid of Al Qaeda. And that's a problem on both fronts.

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Rick Perry's Problems With America

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), fresh off a re-election victory for an unprecedented third term, went on "The Daily Show" on Monday and raile...

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Fall of Giants: Follett At His Finest

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Bolshevik Revolution, Star Crossed Lovers, Ken Follett, World War I, Woodrow Wilson, Books News

Ken Follett is a master craftsman who is just now hitting his full stride. He has had successes before but he has never been so popular or so anticipated.

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Is America a Christian Nation?

Richard Albert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Woodrow Wilson, CANKAYA PALACE, Muslim, Religion, Christian, Barack Obama, TREATY of TRIPOLI, Harry Truman, Tripoli, Politics News

Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey's Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance tha...

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Political Media in Shock: Real Democrats Win in Democratic Primaries

Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Lincoln, the corporate candidate who occasionally impersonates a Democrat, said if she's reelected she'll continue to cross party lines to caucus with the Democrats.

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Politicians Will Not Change The World

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, United States, Democratic, American Civil War, Woodrow Wilson, Republican, Politics News

Many of you have asked how I feel about the Obama administration . . . In short: the fact that we moved from a conservative Republican oilman from Te...

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Let's Start Calling Them 'Regressives'

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have for several years been urging progressives to stop calling these people "conservatives," which they plainly are not, and instead to call them what they really are -- regressives.

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Americans Are Not Oxymorons: Reflections On President Obama's Afghanistan Plans

John Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Instead of the crude, obscenely packaged fabrications used by his predecessor to mislead us into the war in Iraq, Obama's tortuous deliberations on a military escalation in Afghanistan have been marked by doubts.

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The Nobel Peace Prize: Calling a Truce, at Least for a Day

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. Already? After determining that we are still in 2009 and I hadn't pulled a Rip Van Winkle, I then wondered if I was reading the title correctly.

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Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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Filibusters Could Be Fun

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GOP Filibuster, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Virtual Filibuster, Jack Kemp, Mitch McConnell, Civil Rights Legislation, Huey Long, Woodrow Wilson, History of Filibuster, Senate, Politics News

In the 19th century there were only 23 filibusters, while between 1970 and 2004 there were 191. The increase in number is attributable to the Virtual Filibuster.

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Why Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Or the Olympics Rap

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson, Iran, Tony Blair, London, Teddy Roosevelt, Tokyo, Madrid, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Al Gore, Olympic Games, Iraq, Israel, China, Cairo, Copenhagen, World News

Just as I never thought that Obama would win the Olympics for Chicago, it never occurred to me that he would win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

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Back and Forth on the Nobel Peace Prize

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, and now President Obama, got their awards for political reasons ... mostly a Scandinavian attempt to embarrass George Bush."

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellie Greenwich beat Pat Benatar to the punch with the pixie slut haircut. Signaling that feminine power source, the union of opposites.

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