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...book, Black Belt Patriotism, the martial arts champion and star of Walker, Texas Ranger delivers a roundhouse kick to American society, on policy issues ranging from debt and immigration to foreign affairs and the role of religion in public life. TIME spoke with the pugilist and pop culture icon about his favorite Chuck Norris facts, why Congress should be smaller and how reviving the values of the Constitution's framers is our last best hope...
While I filmed the Walker, Texas Ranger series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes. But once I wrapped the show up, I started doing a lot of reading. And I really got into history. I started reading about the Founding Fathers, and how they started our country and why. And actually, amazingly, the reason they left England was because of the heavy taxation that was being implemented on the citizens of England. They were getting taxed over there just the way we are right...
Every convention has its rogue narrative: Would Lyndon Johnson reach out to Bobby Kennedy in 1964? Would Reagan offer Ford a co-presidency in 1980? Could George Herbert Walker Bush tame Pat Buchanan's rebel band in 1992? The more freeze-dried the official proceedings, the hungrier reporters get for raw meat, real conflict, which has Democratic veterans like former party chairman Don Fowler looking a little drawn. He was a die-hard South Carolina Hillary Clinton champion - "but you win, you lose, you move on." A loyal cadre of Clinton bitter-enders, Fowler says, "introduces so much uncertainty into...
...Jamaica has no doubts. On August 17, the country's women swept the medals in the 100m. Right after Bolt's historic turn, Melanie Walker won the 400m hurdles on Wednesday. "I talked to the prime minister, he told me that everything in Jamaica is blocked off," Bolt says. "Everyone is in the streets...
...wrote George Herbert Walker Bush in his diary on June 4, 1975. The "George" who was tired that day was his son, George W. Bush - jet lagged, no doubt, because the tennis court they played on was in Beijing. 'Bush 43' was then fresh out of the Harvard Business School, and 'Bush 41' was chief of the first United States Liason Office in Beijing - the de facto embassy that had opened after Richard Nixon's historic opening to China...