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…ckefeller. Goldwater won the nomination in 1964, but suffered an horrendous general election defeat which so split the party that it retreated to what it viewed as a safe choice, 1960’s failed candidate, former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had lost to John F. Kennedy by a mere 100,000 votes in an election that was probably stolen by Democrats in Chicago. Nixon was a consensus choice, who, Conservative in his tough-on-Commies history, was abl…
…and being televised daily. It was also the last time there was a constitutional crisis in our country. It was the closest the country ever came to an internal revolution. The crisis peaked with the Watergate Scandal in which Richard Nixon was forced to become the first and only president to resign the office in August, 1974 (which by the way was the first year of Saturday Night Live). President Nixon abused power and paid the price. However, th…
…001 for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for This Is What I Do (2000) and a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2004. It’s been awhile since Sonny Rollins made any political donations. The last was in 1994 to Democrat Richard Moore running for Congress, who coincidentally, endorsed Obama for the Democratic nomination for President in February 2008. In 2010, Obama awarded Rollins the 2010 National Medal of Arts. Neil Diamond American sing…
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
… that we passed put in place a consumer watchdog who is charged with protecting everyday Americans from being taken advantage of by mortgage lenders or payday lenders or debt collectors. And the man we nominated for the post, Richard Cordray, is a former attorney general of Ohio who has the support of most attorney generals, both Democrat and Republican, throughout the country. Nobody claims he’s not qualified. But the Republicans in the Senate r…
Richard Burton as Arthur and Roddy McDowell as Mordred in the original production of Camelot The Kennedy myth has taken some well-deserved hits over the years. The carefully crafted image of the Kennedy White House as King Arthur’s Camelot has been tarnished by seemingly endless revelations of the past and current sins of the clan. The real Camelot only had to contend with the Queen’s infidelity, which was kept under wraps for the good of the ki…
…il 2009, in response to a hostage-taking incident off of the coast of Somalia by Somalian pirates, three Navy Seals from DEVGRU simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama…..or was this the “tough love” of justice? The pirates and their hostages were being towed in a lifeboat approximately 100 yards behind the USS Bainbridge (DDG-96)…
…life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don’t go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!” Richard Chamberlain. And during our sojourn in the arena of academia, wrestling with an effort to maximize wisdom from intellect, most, I pray, look for what is admirable in our Democratic, Libertarian or Independent friends…
… that if you want something done right you gotta do it yourself. This runway is just the beginning of the first privately owned and run spaceport in the world. Backed by several entrepreneurs including “Virgin Galactic’s” Sir Richard Branson, Spaceport America plans to have ISS flights up and running by the end of 2012. And Virgin Galactic is not alone. According to the January issue of “Popular Science” there are at least 14 companies that hold …
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