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ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 18, 2008) A French E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft, assigned to the 4th Squadron, lands during a historic joint French and American collaborated carrier qualification aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is participating in Joint Task Force Exercise "Operation Brimstone" off the...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 20, 2008) Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Biggs shoots a French F-2 Rafale off the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during combined French and American carrier qualifications. This event marks the first integrated U.S. and French carrier qualifications aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder.)...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
To the Editor:Related (July 13, 2008) Re “McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is)” (front page, July 13):Is John McCain aware that Theodore Roosevelt was not a conservative? On virtually every domestic issue — race relations, the environment, the role of government in the economy — T.R. was what today would be labeled a robust liberal, and the leading...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
PEARL HARBOR (July 18, 2008) The Battleship Missouri Memorial is illuminated in red, white and blue for the Navy's Great White Gala. The ceremony, which marked the centennial anniversary of the Great White Fleet's arrival to Hawaii, included a Theodore Roosevelt re-enactor, a pass and review by the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) and the guided-missile frigate USS Crommelin...
Neptunus Lex (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
À la mode française: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)(TR) is conducting carrier qualifications with members of the French Navy during Operation Brimstone July 21-31. Pilots from the “Tomcatters” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 and French navy pilots are learning the value of camaraderie and the true meaning of the term ’shipmate.’ “Every day we have close air [...]
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A French Rafale M prepares to land aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during combined French and American carrier qualificationsNorfolk, VA - Over 15,000 naval personnel from four countries are participating in a Joint Task Force Exercise dubbed “Operation Brimstone”, that is underway in North Carolina and off the [...]
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Conservative critics of Teddy Roosevelt's progressivism miss his bully-pulpit support for a robust civil society.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... without sacrificing wildlife and water resources. Members of the National Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited formed the sportsmen's coalition in January. Representatives of the group are in Washington, D.C., pitching their recommendations to congressmen and the campaigns of presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... GOP speaker of a fractious U.S. House of Representatives. Self-described these days as a “Theodore Roosevelt Republican,” Gingrich has taken a contentious plague-on-both-your-parties stand in debate over how to put the brakes on global warming. The ex-House speaker decries leading green groups as "statists," apostles of big, intrusive government and prophets of shortage. “It is not...
Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
David Brooks goes off trying to find examples of conservative rulers who vigorously pursued an increase in Federal programs. His examples ? Two of the most prominent conservative reformers were Benjamin Disraeli and Theodore Roosevelt. Both reframed the political debate so that it was not change versus the status quo, it was unfamiliar change versus cautious, patriotic change designed...
howardowens.com: media blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Here’s a quote for any online manager dealing with a newsroom of curmudgeons. It’s from Theodore Roosevelt. Blow it up big and post it for all to see. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done [...]
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... conservative rule....Two of the most prominent conservative reformers were Benjamin Disraeli and Theodore Roosevelt. Both reframed the political debate so that it was not change versus the status quo, it was unfamiliar change versus cautious, patriotic change designed to preserve the traditional virtues of the nation.Those are odd choices, aren't they? A Victorian era prime minister...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, or even Grover Cleveland and Harry Truman who were Democrats but are very Republican by contemporary standards. Heck JFK was borderline Republican To sum up, once one excludes the category of "Not, in actual point of fact, Republicans, but I'll call them Republicans anyway," one finds that Kid Gloryhole's list of great...
