Theodore Roosevelt

The NRA's off-target plan

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...

Republican fallacy: Average Joe is best served by Big Business

2013-02-22 01:00:00

Republicans make the claim that their party represents the concerns of average, hard-working, family-centered Americans. It is a curious claim, given that their party unfailingly opposes any measure that gives those average Americans a break.� Average...

State of the Union: The not so bully pulpit

2013-02-12 12:28:00

Theodore Roosevelt, America’s 26th president, reveled in the platform the job gave him to comment on all matters great and small: “I have got such a bully pulpit!" he declared. Eighteen presidents and nearly a century later, President...

The birth of the income tax

2013-02-03 00:00:00

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the power to tax American incomes. Unlike the contentious congressional drama in passing the American Taxpayer Relief Act to avert going over the "fiscal...

Pinnacles National Monument set to become a park

2012-12-31 03:00:00

WASHINGTON--Pinnacles National Monument in central California is set to become the 59th national park under a bill headed to President Obama’s desk.� The Pinnacles National Park Act cleared the Senate during a rare Sunday session of the lame-...

New Western governor sets his sights on climate change solutions

2013-01-18 05:00:00

When we were classmates at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Jay Inslee was quarterback of the football team and a key player on the state champion basketball squad. I was a fledgling cartoonist and editorial writer on the student newspaper. On Wednesday...

Neo-Confederates in Congress resist a rapidly changing world

2013-01-15 05:00:00

Revolutionary changes are coming at us at supersonic speed, bringing new challenges that are existential and global. Yet our political system seems incapable of adapting to, or even fully acknowledging, those changes. Instead, the system is constricted by...

To avoid 'fiscal cliff,' our leaders need to be better than we are

2012-12-11 05:00:00

This being the Christmas season, I’m going to give the nation’s political leaders a little gift, an excuse for bringing America to the edge of a so-called�fiscal cliff: They’re only human.� It’s easy to look back at other moments...

Romney and Obama forced to get personal at party conventions

2012-09-09 12:24:00

No one expected Franklin Delano Roosevelt to show his wheelchair to the nation and pepper his speeches with details about his battle with polio. No campaign strategist ever thought to have Pat Nixon come onstage to talk about the homey details of her...

'The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal'

2012-07-31 21:45:00

June 18, 2008 At 82, Gore Vidal is America's most formidable man of letters. The page of previously published work included in the front matter of this latest volume -- "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" -- lists 24 novels, a nonfiction book, two...

'Mad Men' recap: 'A moment before you need more happiness'

2012-06-04 16:39:00

Patt Morrison Asks: Two from the 'typosphere'

2011-12-31 00:00:00

There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family...

Mile 326.4: The packed excursion boat Theodore Roosevelt heads east under tow toward Lake Michigan under the State Bridge in 1910. The Roosevelt operated between Chicago and Michigan City in the day and made a moonlight lake run in the evening.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Tugboats work to turn the USS Theodore Roosevelt in order to provide access of the other side to shipbuilders on Friday, May 17.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

In this undated photo provided by Harvard University Press, President Theodore Roosevelt, posing as an "outdoorsman," points his rifle during a studio photo session.

2013-02-04 11:12:23