Will America’s Third Credibility Crisis of the Past Decade Be the Most Damaging?
But if the court's action does in effect institutionalize Calvin Coolidge's old idea that "the business of America is business" it will be impossible to ...
TriValley Central
For his concern, compassion and respect for the job he does every day, Officer Anjelo Thomas, of the Coolidge Police Department, ...
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These cases relied on a statement to this effect in the Supreme Court's plurality opinion in Coolidge, 403 U.S. at 469-70, which the Supreme Court specifically repudiated in Horton. See Horton, 496 U.S. at 130 ("In this case we revisit an issue that was considered, but not conclusively resolved, in Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443 (1971): Whether the warrantless seizure of evidence of crime in plain view is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment if the discovery of the evidence was not inadvertent. We conclude that even though inadvertence is a characteristic of most legitimate `plain-view' seizures, it is not a necessary condition"). To the extent that these cases su...
Why Obama Reminds Me Of Herbert Hoover
Hoover was also not a conservative Republican like Calvin Coolidge, but a progressive who believed that capital and labor could work together with the encouragement of a beneficent government. In 1928, Hoover won the presidency in a landslide, and might have enjoyed success if the Great Depression had not intervened. Still, Hoover responded to the greatest economic crisis in the nation's history. He funded what was then the largest peacetime public works expenditure. He signed a labor bill, the Norris-LaGuardia Act, that was the precursor of the Wagner Act. And he established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend money to ailing banks. "The Hoover administration," biographer Joan Ho...
A brief history of stamp collecting
Before FDR came into office, the Coolidge Administration had commemorated Molly Pitcher, the Revolutionary War hero and also the Hawaii Sesquicentennial ...
The Seminal » In praise of Jimmy Carter and other so-called weak presidents
Or Calvin Coolidge, who spent his fly-fishing. It's really hard to get conservatives to see this. Strong presidents aren't good for liberty. ...
» Old GOP Doesn-t ‘Get- Tea Parties
Reagan and Coolidge were exceptions. The Republican Party has been for more and bigger government since Lincoln who trashed the Constitution in worse ways ...
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dove off the Coolidge Dam, holding that his injury was covered under an accidental means policy because he hit the water differently than he planned. 437 P.2d 416, 421 (Ariz. 1968). The Supreme Court of New Jersey allowed recovery under an accidental means policy after the insured voluntarily jumped off a boat in order to swim to shore. See Riker v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co., 30 A.2d 42, 43 (N.J. 1943). Riker reasoned that even though the plaintiff's actions were intentional, he had "intended to reach the nearby shore in safety." Id. at 44.In the instant case, Capone made the dive once without incident. Other individuals were diving or jumping in a contempor...
Theater Picks
For the past six months, Jennifer Coolidge has been trying something new. Something that's a bit different from the on-screen comic riffing she has been ...
Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
The Republican Presidents, on the other hand, varied from center-leftish (Teddy, Hoover, Nixon and the Bushes) to strongly right (Coolidge, Reagan) with the ...