Archive for the 'Richard Nixon' Category

Experience as a Predictor of Presidential Greatness

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my […]

Want some racism to go with your jingoism?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Over at Orcinus, Dave takes on the ongoing effort of Republicans and conservatives to convince the world that they’re really not racists at all - history recent and not be damned. Dave writes:
It’s been kind of amusing watching conservatives reposition themselves on racial issues in anticipation of their upcoming electoral battle with Barack Obama, […]

Beyond the Veil

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Psychology and science made their debut as American weapons of war in 1916. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and avowed racial terrorist launched, “the Committee on Public Information.” That same year, President Wilson welcomed a parade of several hundred thousand hooded white men at the White House. The original masters of Amerikan terror held […]

The Substantive Law of Presidential Impeachment

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Utah Law Review Volume 1973 (Winter) No. 4, 681-704. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
Presented to the U.S Senate in 1973.
The genesis of this document was a request by then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation to for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is perhaps […]

Procedural Law of Impeachment

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Duke Law Journal Volume 1974 (January) No. 6, 1023-1116. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
The genesis of this document was a request by the then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is a survey of substantive law of impeachment. […]

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