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  • Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not

    Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not0

    What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both leading major-party candidates this year) at least since Nixon, have wanted? What if they also agreed with Nixon that the result would be reduced political pork? Would such bipartisan agreement mean that the tool

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  • Presidents Day: How We Got Such a Lame Holiday

    Presidents Day: How We Got Such a Lame Holiday0

    “This is Washington’s Birthday,” sings Fred Astaire in the movie classic Holiday Inn, “And I can’t tell a lie.” Americans of a certain age no doubt can remember when the day we now know as Presidents Day was called Washington’s Birthday, invariably celebrated on February 22.  George Washington was officially born on February 11, 1731

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  • Presidential Quotes

    Presidential Quotes0

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  • Presidential Meddling with Private Companies is Not a New Problem

    Presidential Meddling with Private Companies is Not a New Problem0

    • November 9, 2017

    Recently President Donald Trump made headlines when he declared that NFL owners should fire any players that sit or protest otherwise during the national anthem NFL games. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now,’”

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  • Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline

    Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline0

    Over the weekend, author and economist Ben Stein made some rather disparaging comments about the presidential candidates for both parties. In essence, Stein believes they are clueless when it comes to important issues, particularly economics. But the cluelessness doesn’t stop at the presidential candidates. According to Stein, the clueless candidates are simply a symptom of

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  • Presidential Candidates Better Have This Character Trait

    Presidential Candidates Better Have This Character Trait0

    • August 14, 2015

    Campaign season has (unfortunately) started once again. According to a presidential cheat sheet from The Atlantic, there are roughly eight alleged presidential candidates for the Democrats and a whopping 20 for the Republicans. Don’t worry, they’ll be whittled down soon enough, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them are naturally knocked out of

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