The Rough Riders: Teddy Roosevelt's Firsthand Account of the Cuban Campaign During the Spanish-American War
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
More than 30 times a year John Howell puts on his khaki pants, blue shirt and cowboy hat and heads out to area hospitals. Howell is a Rough Rider and is also the chairman of the Teddy Bear Krewe of the Rough Riders. He helps put smiles on thousands of faces each year.
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the Grange through the roof with prose that sounds positively dialogicala compared to this book! Teddy Roosevelt could thunder and denounce with the best of them, but he could write a book. Dwight Eisenhower won a war and then had someone ghost an awesome account of that win. If Palin is running for President, we needed more. We don't need a philosopher president, but we do need someone...
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (Free subscription) | yesterday
... I, for example, approves of women voting in municipal and state, but not national elections. Teddy Roosevelt, still in the middle of his long post-presidential shooting spree in Africa, writes in Scribner’s that Africans are much better off under colonial rule. While there have been mistakes, they most often arise from zeal to accomplish too much in the way of beneficence. So...
El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado (Free subscription) | yesterday
... President James Buchanan appointed a National Arts Commission, but it disbanded after two years. Teddy Roosevelt made a similar attempt 50 years later, and in 1937, during a fit of New Deal-fueled government expansion, a New York congressman introduced legislation to create a Department of Science, Art, and Literature, but the proposal never got beyond committee. Subsequent efforts...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Barack Obama’s cabinet is highly qualified on almost every score. It’s the first cabinet to feature someone who has already received a Nobel prize in the field (Teddy Roosevelt as head of his own cabinet excepted). Obama pulled highly qualified people from a lot of important positions, from both major parties, and from across the [...]
Just Politics (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A few less than shining presidential moments captured on [...] Related posts: A Great Board Game Government Assistance? Obama Says We’ve Been Waiting Since Teddy Roosevelt
a Christian artist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Being from Britain I can say how grateful I am for America’s godly influence even in my own personal life, while all around me in England would sometimes seem to have forgotten our very own Christian heritage. So Happy Thanksgiving, America. And by way of thanking you, I’m premiering two American Presidents today, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt . And there’s even...
Capitol confidential (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Doris Kearns Goodwin was a young woman in her twenties when she became an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Forty years later, her interest in the Oval Office hasn’t waned. She has written on the most famous men to occupy the White House: FDR, JFK, Lincoln and–her newest subject–Teddy Roosevelt. This week, on a [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... savings bank as and an Arizona department store as . For one bank commercial he portrayed , , Teddy Roosevelt and , all complaining about other banks that charged for checks. He pitched Cheerios as , beer as , early mobile phones as Dracula and cough syrup as the Frankenstein monster. He even played Mr. Whipple’s twin in a commercial for Charmin bathroom tissue. On film, he played...
CogentPassion by Timmy G (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... from JP Morgan showing the %age of cabinet officers with private sector experience since the Teddy Roosevelt administration. ( full explanation here . (American Enterprise blog.)) This is troublesome on 3 levels: 1) There's no business expertise around Obama to provide real world advice or context for the challenge of getting the economy going. (In fact, this may be why all of the...
Shrine of the Holy Whapping (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Evelyn Waugh used to end his letters, for a time, with a cheerily valedictory "Death to Picasso!" Another great epistolary flourish was brought to my attention by good friend and alert reader Nathaniel P. Teddy Roosevelt closed one of his letters with "P.S. I have just killed a bear." Bully! ( Source ).
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... if there's anyone I've forgotten to mention): IN: Labor activist Jonathan Tasini . (D). OUT: Teddy Roosevelt IV (R), Democratic Reps. Steve Israel , Carolyn Maloney , Carolyn McCarthy and Jose Serrano, Manhattan BP Scott Stringer (D). MAYBE/FLOATED: Suffolk County Legislator Jon Cooper (D) - will make an announcement Dec. 14, Giuliani (R), former Gov. George Pataki (R), former Tennessee...
ElsaElsa.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Astrology in real life “Did you know that Dora was one of Teddy Roosevelt’s original Rough Riders? She was,” the soldier explained the Vid and I on the ride home last night. “Yep, this was back when she was a young dog and she was one of them all right. She rode with Teddy.” Vid snorted. (...) Read the rest of Dora: Captain Of The Queen’s Royal...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
He's not in the showers in jail picking up the soap, so why do this so constantly? Is it a twitch? A twitch of submission, like a beta dog? I think it is pathetic - and it reflects on me as a free and proud American. Please tell me it's only because the Asian leaders are short of stature height-deprived, and not ass-kissing. I cannot imagine Abe Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt bowing to a...
Cup O' Joe (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... mean to say we shouldn't continue to fight for the things we think are important: progress is, as Teddy Roosevelt put it, the constant struggle between those who possess more than they have earned and those who have earned more than they possess. But we should all keep a sense of perspective and not let all the bad things that happen depress you into inaction, or be too impatient...
