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Battle of the Branches: Tough Times for Separation of Powers
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyLast week generated an unusual confluence of legal stories that together highlight the fragility of the constitutional (and practical) walls designed to separate the functions of the different branches of government. In each instance, functionaries of one branch poached on territory set aside for another; in each case, there was a swift reaction from tribunes defending their turf. Part One: Legislative encroachment upon traditional executive power. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder blasted federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives for passing legislation that would block ...
Cheerleading Needs a Champion: Three Cheers for George W. Bush
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyOnce a cheerleader, always a cheerleader. Just ask my mom, who proudly cheered on her Rison High School Wildcats for four years. She's always contended that cheerleading was a sport just as much as football or basketball even back in the 1950s, when girls wore long skirts, shook their pompoms, and yelled into a megaphone. Cheerleading has come a long way since the days when cheerleaders were chosen by football players instead of by competitive tryouts. The 2000 "Bring It On" movie -- and its four straight-to-video sequels -- about competing high school cheerleading teams showed that ...
Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?
By not in system - AOL News(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical way, when government outlays have a so-called multiplier effect that invigorates other economic participants. The Obama administration has a second meaning for "to spur." It is that government entering an industry as a competitor will strengthen that industry and make it more ...
Congressman Wants Reagan on $50 Bill
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 3) -- Reviving a controversy about which American historical figures deserve to be honored on the nation's currency, a North Carolina congressman is proposing replacing a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill with one of conservative icon Ronald Reagan. "President Reagan is indisputably one of the most transformative presidents of the 20th century," Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican, said in a letter to his fellow members of Congress. "Like President Roosevelt on the dime and President Kennedy on the half-dollar, President Reagan deserves a place of honor on our nation's ...
FDR Kept Deadly Disease Secret, New Book Claims
By Sphere Staff - AOL News(Jan. 3) -- It's hardly news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a healthy man as he led the nation during World War II. But aside from the cardiac problems that the public has known about for years, the authors of a new book argue that he suffered from a deadly form of skin cancer, and that it eventually killed him. In "FDR's Deadly Secret," authors Eric Fettman and Dr. Steven Lomazow, a neurologist, claim that a melanoma above his left eyebrow metastasized over the last four years of FDR's life and caused a tumor that killed him in April 1945. Fettman, one of the authors of the ...
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