This is a college paper written in February 1990. It is a summary of President George Bush’s foreign policy in his first year in office.
When he ran for president in 1988, George Bush ran on his resume. The experience which he cited included the ambassadorship to the United Nations, ambassador to China, CIA director, and [...]
This was my final term paper for a Political Science class in college, dated March 6, 1989.
The Immigration Reform Act of 1986 was a five-year effort to make sweeping changes in United States immigration policy – the first since the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. For the first time, U.S. employers were seen as much [...]
OK so I’ve been quite critical of the far right of the political spectrum, particularly the religious right. Just to be fair, I’m equally offended by the far left, and particularly many of the “elders” of the left, who have roots in the 1960’s young cultural movement… Hippies, flower children, beatniks, et al, were responsible [...]
A quick Google News search shows Obama and Clinton have about 50,000 more news listings than John McCain. Today’s main pages for Fox News, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC have McCain completely off the radar. Only Fox had a single McCain story (barely) visible on their main page’s initial loading screen. The others required scrolling [...]
What do you get when you cross a political science college minor with someone who has spent over a decade crunching numbers for sports handicappers… and apply that to this year’s electoral college in the general election for President?
5 McCain Victories
5 with no winner but a McCain edge
1 with no winner but an Obama/Clinton edge
1 [...]
As obvious as the information below is, I couldn’t seem to find some of it easily online. So if you’re looking for the ages of presidents when they left office, here is a good chart for you. For a discussion about how recent presidents have aged, take a look at this recent blog post.
You can [...]
The 2008 Republican campaign dealt a well-deserved blow to the Religious Right of the Republican party. But didn’t they see it coming? The presumed front-runner throughout all of 2007 was Rudy Giuliani, who was the only vocal pro-choice candidate. After his disastrous wait-for-Florida strategy put him out of the race, we were left with Mormon [...]
I remember as a kid how people thought Jimmy Carter aged badly during his administration. I don’t know that he aged so bad, as much as his trademark smile was wiped off his face during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Recent thoughts of that made me want to go back and see how other recent presidents looked [...]