Word: wilsonism
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...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...
...France fought together again in both world wars of the early 20th century, but national interests and personalities always complicated the picture. At the Versailles Conference after World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau scorned U.S. President Woodrow Wilson for his reluctance to punish defeated Germany; in the early years of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt worried that the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle had "all the attributes of a dictator." The past 60 years have had several rocky patches. The low points were 1966, when De Gaulle took France out of NATO'S military command...
Kristol is still perpetuating the myth that only the GOP understands war. Republicans may understand the concept of war, but they don't know how to win one. Both world wars were successfully prosecuted by Democratic Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman...
...record. Since then, Harvard has not won less than seven games in any year, and with six victories in the books so far in ‘07, with one win in its final two games the Crimson can accomplish something no Ivy squad has done since the Wilson Administration—win at least seven games for seven straight seasons...
...socialized-health-care-loving peacenik feminazi. She and her husband steal conservative memes and tropes to hoodwink the masses. During the political nuclear winter of the 1990s, Yale professor Stephen Skowronek opined that Bill Clinton was the sort of President who inspires a special frenzy in his opponents - Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon were others - because he takes the more accessible parts of their agendas and adopts them. Hillary Clinton inspired an even greater frenzy because she was a gender revolutionary, transforming the cotton-candy role of First Lady into a power position. She wasn't nearly as charming...