This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Thomas Woodrow Wilson came into the office of the Presidency as a man who was an extremely popular governor, a charismatic leader, and a man who had shown, while dean of Princeton University, that [...]
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This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Welcome, one and all, to Ohio week. On Saturday, we had Benjamin Harrison, today we have Taft, and on Friday we will have yet another Ohioan (I think you can guess who it is, [...]
This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. With James Madison’s posting, today is a great time to point out something exceptionally important. When I first started contemplating the idea of ranking the Presidents, I made sure to explain exactly what the [...]
This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. When looking at the Presidents, James Calvin Coolidge is an odd fellow to consider. On one hand, he is a self-made man who slowly worked himself up the political ladders – a very noble [...]
This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. While people seem to know a little about most of our Presidents, there are a few that fall by the wayside. Monroe, Fillmore, and Harrison are amongst these Presidents that are blessed by being [...]
The Tea Party and the Coffee Party are two organizations with seemingly similar goals, and a similar fatal flaw: They are so very useful to the mainstream political parties that are the second, and much older political group to which their members belong. Grassroots equals legitimacy, and these parties wold love nothing more than to receive more support through more widely accepted means and allow the grassroots to do the work for them. With a “minimal” amount of guidance, that is…
