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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 460 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

“Let us, therefore, as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us … Continue reading →

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In 1911 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, that Standard Oil must be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The two largest companies formed after the split were … Continue reading →

So it’s a few day’s late for President’s Day, but here is a short yet interesting video   featuring White House curator Bill Allman discussing the creation of one of the most famous presidential portraits of all time, John Singer Sargent’s 1903 painting of TR.

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness … Continue reading →

In a recent survey by the magazine Corporate Knights, Theodore Roosevelt holds the number one spot  on the list of greenest U.S. presidents by a wide margin. The Canadian media company polled 12 environmental groups and asked them to rank the top three greenest … Continue reading →

On the eve of the GOP Convention, The Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson dares ask the question:”Where is today’s Teddy Roosevelt?” The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held from August 27 to August 3o in Tampa Florida. Tampa was the … Continue reading →

Okay so I am a day late with this one, but a century go the most successful third party campaign for the  Presidency was launched in Chicago. The 1912 Progressive Party ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson garnered over 27% of votes cast while receiving … Continue reading →