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#23 Thomas Woodrow Wilson – He tried so hard, to go nowhere

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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#24 Hiram Ulysses Grant (Ulysses S. Grant) – Not even a war hero could end Ohio’s Presidential issues

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Be honest here, how many of you, before reading the title, knew that Grant’s real name was Hiram? Me, I learned it last year in my Presidents class taught by Charles Smith over at [...]

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#25 Zachary Taylor – top-10 material, had he not died a little early

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Zachary Taylor came into the office of the Presidency in an odd and, at the time, new manner. Instead of being a politician before becoming President, Taylor became the first President to never hold [...]

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I’m Back

So, my stuff is unpacked, my house in in order, and my textbooks are slowly filtering in. I am finally ready to start this site again, and will be doing so on Monday with the continuation of my Presidents series. My goal is to continue the two-a-week pace until I am done with this series. [...]

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where has Barga been?

For those waiting to try and figure out when I will finally update this again, you are going to need to wait longer. I am currently packing and eventually moving out to Connecticut for law school, and that, along with work (I want text books) is eating up all of my time. I should start [...]

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#26 Rutherford Birchard Hayes – Birchard, seriously now, who names their kid Birchard?

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. This is the final installment of ‘Ohio week,’ a week where all the Presidents were from Ohio. On Saturday, we had Benjamin Harrison, on Wednesday we had William Howard Taft, and today we have [...]

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#27 William Howard Taft – The start of the Taft Family Downfall

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, [...]

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#28 Benjamin Harrison – The President between the Cleveland Sandwich

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. This, my friends, is where it starts to get interesting. After a bunch of horrible Presidents, but before the great ones, comes a an area of simply mediocre leaders. Some of these men had [...]

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#29 James Madison – He might be the father of the Constitution, but he was a poor President

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 [...]

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No Post on Friday or Monday

I am writing this from the road on my iPhone on a trip to check out my new property in Connecticut (for law school). I had thought that I had scheduled automatic posts for both days, but apparently did not. As a result, there will be no posts either tomorrow or on Monday. I know [...]

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#30 John Calvin Coolidge – “the chief business of the American people is business.”

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 [...]

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How to Sync Your Google Calendar and Your iPhone Using OS4

When Apple first released OS 2.0 and 3.0 for the iPhone, people were able to sync their devices with the Google servers, easily allowing them to access and edit their contacts and calendars. However, when they updated to 3.1, Apple broke the sync, leaving thousands in the dark. After finding workarounds, people were again able [...]

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A look at Proxy Pro 7 – Remote Accessing Software

When I am at work, I have to often help my coworkers with their computer issues. Sometimes it is something easy, like they didn’t install a driver (or, worse, didn’t even activate it). Other times, it is something tough, like a problem with compatibility. Either way, I normally have to put down what I am [...]

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#31 John F. Kennedy – Let the Controversy Begin

Yes, I am aware that this will be controversial, but, as I have said from the start, it is based on performance, not anything else. This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Some Presidents enter office on their own, with little-to-no-help [...]

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#32 William McKinley – The SPAM War and the Gold Standard

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Like I said back in my Garfield article, I am start to get a bit concerned about Ohio Presidents. Fitting well into the mold of killed-in-office, William McKinley, the “Idol of Ohio,” served as [...]

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#33 John Tyler – The First Replacement President

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Sometimes, it is good to cross political lines to ensure that your name will go down in history. For John Tyler, Jr., crossing from the Democratic-Republican camp into the Whig camp served as his [...]

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Graduation

Ladies and Gents, I am finally a graduate of The Ohio State University. Bio updates, here I come!! Fighting the Birthers, one step at a time

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Hampshire vs. Rawls, who know Political Liberalism Better?

In 1970, John Rawls published his seminal work, “A Theory of Justice,” shortly following it up with his longer, and more intensive update, “Political Liberalism.” In these works, Rawls restarted the long-dormant field of political philosophy, and discussed what justice is, how a government can be legitimate, and how public reason can be used in [...]

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Get a new camera for graduation!

Today, I took my final final at The Ohio State University. On Sunday, I, along with thousands of my peers, will be heading through the ‘Shoe to get our diplomas, and then heading out into the wild-blue yonder in search of better pastures. As with most graduations, gifts are something that are to be expected [...]

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#34 James A. Garfield – He had a plan, but died too soon

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Wow, I am starting to get concerned about Ohio Presidents. Several died in office, and most of the rest simply have some very bad scandals follow them out of the White House. If not [...]

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