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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.
Hollis argues that politics is the art of compromise, and "the best is the enemy of the good." [4] Another example of the problem of dirty hands Hollis mentions is the decision Winston Churchill made in World War II not to warn the people of Coventry that the Germans were planning a massive air raid on their city. At first glance it seems wrong ...
A prison cell during the dirty protest. The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) [1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland.
Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy ( / kækɪˈstɒkrəsi /, / kækɪsˈtɒ -/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. [ 1]: 54 [ 2][ 3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. [ 4] Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, [ a] and ...
University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946) is an American professor of communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-founded FactCheck.org, and she is an author, most recently of Cyberwar, in which she argues that Russia very likely helped Donald J ...
1924 - The Zinoviev letter, published in the Daily Mail in London before the 1924 general election, is a forgery that impacted the vote.It was signed with the name of Grigory Zinoviev, a politician in the Soviet Union and the leader of the Communist International, and called on violent action by the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12] [10] [13] in Argentina [14] [15] from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security ...
Dirty Politics was released at Unity Books in Wellington on 13 August 2014, with a crowd of approximately 150. [13] [14] [15] Prior to the release of the book, details of what it would be about were the subject of substantial speculation, as the topic of the book was kept secret in order to avoid it being blocked from release by a court injunction.