Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Guest Post: Calvin Coolidge Was a President Who Understood Principle

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by Jake Yonally In his veto of a congressional salary increase, our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, told Congress that, “No person was ev...
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Thursday, December 14, 2017

Guest Post: Did 'the man who invented Christmas' plagiarize Jesus?

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Matthew Robert Anderson , Concordia University Everyone knows the story of Scrooge, a man so miserly his name has become synonymous with p...
Monday, May 29, 2017

From the Archives: JFK was 'cautious, conservative' says UVA political scientist Larry Sabato

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Publisher's note: Today would have been the 100th birthday of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  This article is drawn from my Exami...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

From the Archives: Belafonte criticizes Barack Obama on civil liberties in Charlottesville

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Publisher's note: This article was originally published on Examiner.com on January 24, 2012. The Examiner.com publishing platform was d...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

From the Archives: Holland Taylor supplies engaging on-stage portrait of Ann Richards in ‘Ann’

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Publisher's note: This article was originally published on Examiner.com on December 22, 2011. The Examiner.com publishing platform was ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

From the Archives: Amity Shlaes discusses significance of Calvin Coolidge at Heritage Foundation

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Publisher's note: This article was originally published on Examiner.com on February 20, 2013. The Examiner.com publishing platform was ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

From the Archives - Author Earl Dudley: from child prisoner of the Japanese to UVA law professor

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Publisher's note: This article was originally published on Examiner.com on November 21, 2010. The Examiner.com publishing platform was ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

A Belated Birthday Salute to Shirley Temple Black (1928-2014)

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Earlier this week the world celebrated William Shakespeare's 450th birthday.  The Bard of Avon was born on April 23, 1564. In the mid...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Calvin Coolidge and civility

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(This article originally appeared on Virginia Politics on Demand on June 20, 2013 .) One day in 1905, while running for the school commit...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

'America Could Use a Good Dose of Calvin Coolidge' Revisited

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Three years ago today, the Richmond Times-Dispatch published an opinion piece I wrote and headlined it "America Could Use a Good Dose ...
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