G.W. Bush - Our Third Worst President
Ranking presidents, especially the worst, can be done by a number of different criteria. If you look at how unqualified they are, Harding would probably top (or is it bottom) the list. But I think the...
View ArticleImpeachment: Not So Radical
Note: I am sure there have been diaries entered on impeachment, but I have a specific view point and would like to share it. Of course, even the mention of impeachment comes with the old, too radical,...
View ArticleImpeachment as politics has always failed
Anyone over the age of about 35 has lived through some of the most intensely political acts in our nation's history. We can honestly debate the merits of impeaching George W. Bush because of his...
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Impeachment is not an option...
...right now.A lot of people are rightly passionate about whether the current occupants of the White House should be impeached. The question of whether or not Bush and Cheney deserve to be impeached is...
View ArticleImpeachment, Historically Speaking
It is, perhaps, the nature of those who study the past to be slightly behind the times – by definition, it’s tough to get an historical perspective on current events – but as your self-appointed...
View Article2fer: The Most Evil Presidents... Ever! And a link to Bud Cummins speech.
Here's the third of a series of polls on the worst presidents ever. Because badness comes in many flavors, I am looking at bad presidents from several different angles: incompetence, corruption,...
View ArticleThe President Who Screwed Things Up the Worst!
Here's the fourth of a series of polls on the worst presidents ever. Because badness comes in many flavors, I am looking at bad presidents from several different angles: incompetence, corruption,...
View Articlea realistic look at impeachment.
this site has become somewhat obsessed with impeachment these days, so, let's look at the issue. REALLY look at the issue! okay?let's start at the beginning: here's the definitive primer on impeachment...
View ArticleStep 1 - draft the artilces of Impeachment for Congress
I see no need to wait and leave this to a representative to draft. Within the blogosphere, we have the talent to draft articles of impeachment. Below are links and samples of the articles drafted...
View ArticleLessons of Impeachments Past: Johnson
The President's own party was in shambles, shattered by a failed war effort and powerless before an ascendant and vengeful opposition majority. The President himself was as obstinate a man as ever...
View ArticleVote Republican-Vote Lincoln-Johnson in 1864
After being dragged through the mud this week, the week of October 9, 2007, watching the Republicans debate in Michigan and a couple of weeks ago having to fortify myself with strong drink just to get...
View ArticleWorst President Ever: Who's the Runner-up?
Alright, so George W. Bush has the lowest approval rating ever in the history of public polling. As he's fond of saying, the previous winner, Harry S. Truman, has been looked upon far more approvingly...
View ArticleThe media doesn't know shit! Obama is the 43rd president!
For the past four days, we've been hearing about the historic nature of President-Elect Obama's election (I still can't get over saying that; it's so awesome). And yet I continue to hear the most...
View ArticleWho is the worst President ever?
President Bush II is force-feeding us one more in a steady diet of shitburgers with the economic collapse of 2008. And with the epic fail of Iraq and Katrina, the "GWoT" generally, and coupled with...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Field Guide to a Century Ago, Pt. I
In our ongoing battle to defend American values from the unceasing attacks of the conservatives who would burn our nation in order to save it, we progressives have, of late, found ourselves once again...
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Morning Feature: False Equality, Part II - Privilege
In July, Newt Gingrich wailed against "double standards" on religion:They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in...
View ArticleThe Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 3
Hey, I got a tip last time! Woo! Anyway, here's the rest of the section on Congress. Next time, kooky and/or cool people from Congress!
View ArticleThe Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 12
This is a surprisingly short section at the moment, given the subject.
View ArticleLosing What We Never Had: The Deferred Dreams of Black America Part One
In light of the recent report that shows that during this current recession the already-wide racial wealth gap has grown even more wide, I thought it would be appropriate to post a series I wrote in...
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Indians 101: President Andrew Johnson and the Indians
Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 his Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, assumed the Presidency and completed Lincoln’s term. Johnson, who is best known as the first...
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The Island of Misfit Presidents
As all 5 living US Presidents gathered together on the grounds of Dallas’ Southern Methodist University yesterday to celebrate the unveiling of The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, we...
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Andrew Johnson Wasn't a Drunkard...He Was Just a Bigot
I have posted another excerpt from my book, Bread From the Sweat of Other Men's Faces today that focuses on the man who was judged in a meta-analysis of recent historical rankings of US Presidents to...
View ArticleHow Presidents and the Public Have Ignored Right Wing Terrorism
http://www.articlesbase.com/...Two recent terrorists in the past weeks point out the long persistence of right wing terrorism in America. The shooting of three people at a Jewish center by Frazier...
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Mississippi Crumbling: The Inheritance of Inequity in The Magnolia State
“Everybody in the Mississippi Delta was a racist, white or black. Racism was built into our bones. It is a thing we will never recover from having committed, but it also had its side that we always...
View ArticlePresidents and cartoons: You think Obama gets dissed? Look what Abe Lincoln...
Few would disagree that President Obama has faced an unprecedented amount of vitriol during his time in office. The Photoshopped images of his head on witch doctor bodies, the vicious anonymous attacks...
View ArticleThe latest in media sucking up: AP mounts a spirited defense of presidential...
The Associated Press offers up a pathetic defense of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s roles in Daddy’s White House: Nepotism was historically common. The examples offered of the 18 sons and 14...
View Article'See, I picked someone from the other party.' That's how we got Comey—and...
As you maybe, possibly, have heard, the president of our country this week fired the person who was leading the investigation into collusion between his campaign team and a foreign power seeking to...
View ArticleResistance at #TheVillage 7.3.2017
Happy almost Independence Day! Sure wish there was a different occupant in the White House. But, we need to recharge ourselves and continue to fight.Those of you who have GOP Senators, do not forget to...
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Is Donald Trump going to be the Invincible President?
No president is above the law and that means they are not invincible. A serious mistake or past indiscretion that surfaces can result in impeachment or forced resignation. President Nixon was forced to...
View ArticleThe comical myth of Abraham Lincoln Trump
If nothing else, Donald Trump is a one-of-a-kind occupant of the Oval Office. His jaw-dropping corruption, staggering incompetence, mind-numbing policy ignorance, puerile penchant for payback, and...
View ArticleDOJ justifies appointment of unconfirmed AG by citing 1866 case—that almost...
The appointment of the unvetted, unconfirmed, and thoroughly unhinged Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general has been declared unconstitutional by pretty much everyone who bothered to weigh in....
View ArticleNew Jersey ref with history of racism forces high school wrestler to cut off...
Referee Alan Maloney works the amateur wrestling circuit in New Jersey. He also has an alleged history of being a piece-of-shit racist. On Wednesday night, Buena Regional High School had a wrestling...
View ArticleHappy Birthday President Andrew Johnson, Sorry About the Wreath, But You...
December 29th was President Johnson’s 210th birthday.Normally the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery and the Greeneville Greene County History Museum would hold a Presidential Birthday Party It is a...
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Virginia basketball ref under investigation for critiquing a black...
The city of Chesapeake, Virginia has barred an unnamed official from working any and all game after he very publicly analyzed and criticized an elementary school player’s hair during a game played on...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Slaveholders-in-Chief Cont'd 2/19/19
After Denise's tour-de-force of a post on Sunday (if you haven't already, be sure to read it), my efforts seem meager by comparison. But that's never stopped me before, and I think it's important to...
View ArticlePresidential historian: Trump joins Andrew Johnson as ‘most racist president...
Jon Meacham, who has written about several presidential administrations, knows his history about presidencies. While doing a group panel discussion on MSNBC’s Hardball, he compared Donald Trump to...
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We Live in Historic Times ...
— — That would be President Andrew Johnson.—— ———— ———————— ——IOKIYAR——IOKIYAR II——Trump's 'pay with cash' offer on Cohen tape could spell fresh peril for president One would think … Yeah but it’s OK...
View ArticleTrump's violent rhetoric alone could be sufficient grounds for his impeachment
Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, writing for theNew York Times, persuasively argues that Donald Trump’s violent, unhinged rhetoric, more than amply demonstrated on Twitter and in his campaign rallies,...
View ArticleWhat Brenda Wineapple's 'The Impeachers' can teach us about Trump
Most histories of the Civil War end at Appomattox. Some may include a few words about Gen. Johnston’s surrender to Gen. Sherman, but most end either at Appomattox or with the assassination of President...
View ArticleThe impeachment letter Trump could have sent to Nancy Pelosi
December 22, 2019The Honorable Nancy PelosiSpeaker of the House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515Dear Madam Speaker:I wrote you this past Tuesday to protest in the strongest possible terms the...
View ArticleTrump Impeachment in a Nutshell
On December 18, 2019, President Donald J. Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. This is only the third time in history that a president has been impeached and the first time for a...
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Impeachment Then and Now: Two Party Opera Illustrates the History of the 1st...
There’s the old saw about history not repeating, but rhyming. A look at the past can provide insight on the present. Brian Carroll (who is also running for Congress in California 30) has been using his...
View ArticleThe Erosion of America’s Democracy
On January 21, 2020, the US Senate began the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, 45th president of the USA. This is a trial that the senate was mandated to do by the constitution when the House...
View ArticleDoes Federal Impeachment Require a Federal Crime. Spoiler Alert: No
Does Federal Impeachment Require the Violation of a Federal Statue or Federal Crime. Spoiler Alert: No.The origin and parameters of Federal impeachment were established in 1787 at the Constitutional...
View ArticleMonday OT: February 24 is Shrove Monday, heh
February 24 is day 55 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Chaos 55, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.14 by the Mayan Long Count OK, I don't particularly capisce any of...
View ArticleObama Breaks Presidential Norms Himself
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]During this chaotic catastrophe of the Trump presidency it’s become a wearying task of sharp dismay to catalogue how many norms of democracy that Putin puppet has...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Inaugurations in our History
Tuesday January 19thwill probably be the last time I ever attend our weekly Anti-Trump “Tell Them Tuesday” rally which has been held on Main Street in downtown Greenville ever since Trump was...
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