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Poor Andrew Johnson: Poll Ranks Worst (and Best) Presidents
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyEvery eight years Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., asks scholars to rank the best and worst presidents in American history, and every survey since 1982 has seen Franklin D. Roosevelt in the number one spot. This year is no exception. But there's a shakeup at the number two position in the 2010 ranking. For the first time in 20 years, Abraham Lincoln has been supplanted as second-best by another Roosevelt: Teddy. "Teddy Roosevelt had, more than any other president the 'right stuff', and tops the collective ranking of a cluster of personal qualities, including imagination, integrity, ...
Cape Wind Finally Won, but Guess Who Loses?
By Dave Thier - AOL News(April 28) -- A nearly decade-long process of permitting and protesting came to an end today when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the green light to Cape Wind, a 130-turbine wind farm in Massachusetts' Nantucket Sound. The project will be America's first offshore wind farm, a milestone prompting the expected responses from advocates and opponents. What's interesting is who some of the opponents are and what Cape Wind's victory portends for their movement. In the long battle that preceded today's announcement, activists on both sides claimed the mantle of saving the Earth, but viewed ...
The Dugout: Washington Nationals Spring Training 2010
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsThe Dugout Spring Training 2010 event continues today with my new hometown team, the Montreal Super-Expos. The Washington Nationals are known for two things; their connection to the deep and layered history of this great nation, and a colossal ability to lose baseball games. Those two concepts collide in today's Dugout, which serves as a cautionary tale for anyone who puts up with riff-raff in our cherished game. With today's Dugout and the realization that Dmitri Young may never play again thanks to his Tracy Jordan-style fight against diabetes, it's looking like a bad year for insensitive ...
How Obama's Health Reform Push Compares to his Predecessors'
By Markham Heid - Politics DailyAs President Obama leans into the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he inches forward in the footsteps of several predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care legislation. To be sure, Obama has had help along the way. And as the current congressional debate underscores, not all universal health care plans are created equal. But it seems likely that 44 will be the first president to achieve a congressional vote on universal health care legislation. A look at how and when his Oval Office brethren fell short: ...
It Didn't Have to Be This Way, Italy
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsThe dream came crashing to an end on Tuesday evening in Toronto when the evil Communists from Venezuela cheated defeated Italy 10-1 and eliminated them from the World Baseball Classic. It was the second time in a matter of days that the Venezuelans bested the Italians (the first game was a 7-0 "victory"), no doubt because Hugo Chavez bribed the umpires with free gasoline. It's really a shame too, but not just because of the promise shown by Italy when it sent Canada home after only two games on Monday. No, it's a shame because none of this ever had to happen. The Italians could have beaten ...
Bleacher Bums: Teddy Roosevelt Will Run You Over for a Hot Dog
By Mullet - AOL NewsBleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh so fun fan adventures.You know, it's incidents like this which explain why Teddy Roosevelt was winless in the Nationals' President Mascot Race in 2006. From a 2007 game (I think), the Roosevelt mascot took a detour from the daily race to go all Joey Chestnut on us and chase a hot dog ... not a real hot dog mind you, but a fake mascot hot dog ... and ran over some poor fans in the process. He may be winless (at least last season he was), but in Washington, the Teddy Roosevelt mascot is a cult figure ... kind of like Anna Kournikova.Did I just ...
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