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International usage. Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan. Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans. Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen ...
Judicial branch. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Federal District Court Judge was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of soliciting a bribe. (1989) [ 373] Harry Claiborne (D-NV) Federal District Court Judge was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate on two counts of tax evasion.
The term now means a place behind the scenes, where cigar-smoking party bosses make political decisions. [ 4] "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", from Franklin D. Roosevelt 's first inaugural address. [ 5] "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy."
Welcome to Florida, where even the electricity you consume comes with a side of dirty, secretive — and most likely, illegal — political gangsterism.
Lecherous Limericks. First edition. (publ. Walker and Company) Lecherous Limericks [1] [2] is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). The book contains 100 limericks. The first limerick in the collection is: There was a sweet girl of Decatur. Who went to sea on a freighter.
On 20 December 1973, the Wall Street Journal quoted Sayre as: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Political scientist Herbert Kaufman, a colleague and coauthor of Sayre, has attested to Fred R. Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, that Sayre usually stated his claim as "The politics of the university are so intense ...
At first, it was easy to forget that those images were real, and not just a video game playing on a screen. But the more he stepped out of that war room, the more he was exposed to the reality of ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. Negative campaigning is the process of deliberately spreading negative information about someone or something to worsen the public image of the described. A colloquial, and somewhat more derogatory, term for the practice is mudslinging . Deliberate spreading of such information can be motivated either by honest desire ...