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When Barack Obama won Florida last November - the first northern Democrat to take the Sunshine State since FDR - many saw it as a sign of centrist GOP governor Charlie Crist's moderating influence. But lately, Florida's disgruntled Republicans aren't looking very moderate. This week, in fact, the peninsula's GOP registered arguably the loudest outcry over the education speech President Obama plans to deliver to U.S. primary and secondary students via webcast and C-Span next Tuesday, Sept. 8. In perhaps the most over-the-top performance, state Republican chairman Jim Greer called it an attempt...
...martyred President, to make her husband's "as Lincoln-esque as possible." The networks would run nonstop coverage; a million people lined the streets for the procession from the White House to the Cathedral. The flag-draped casket was pulled on a caisson - the same one that had carried FDR - by six gray horses; a riderless horse named Black Jack followed behind, a sword hanging from the black saddle, a pair of boots reversed in the stirrups - a sign that a commander had fallen and would never ride again...
...Foreign Policy this summer, journalist Reihan Salam predicted that the "macho men's club called finance capitalism" would not survive the present economic ordeal. Provocatively--but correctly--he claimed that this male order rests on foundations considerably older than Ronald Reagan's supply-side revolution. The economic system that FDR shored up was a male one. The New Deal focused on infrastructure at a time when there were not a lot of lady dam builders around. (Salam might also have mentioned the GI Bill, the most effective instrument ever devised for giving a leg up to males in universities...
...stuck in tunnel traffic. The dual-engine Sikorsky S-76B helicopters fly daily from two locations in Manhattan between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Book through May 14 for travel through Aug 31 (except holidays). Downtown: Manhattan Heliport, 6 East River Piers; Midtown: Atlantic Metroport, 510 East 34th Street & FDR Drive...
...chance for parents to stay at the FDR suite for five days during next year’s commencement...