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Community colleges have joined Missouri's four-year colleges and universities in agreeing to freeze tuition next school year if state officials promise to nick and not slash their budgets.
Tuition and academic fees will be frozen for the second straight year at Missouri's public four-year colleges and universities, Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday.
Dozens of Missouri communities will be splitting $266 million for wastewater and drinking water improvements under a construction plan announced by Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday.
A U.S. marshal who served former President Richard Nixon with two Watergate-related subpoenas at his California home has died.
President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents to spill secrets on the senator's behavior.
The daughter of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende requested via Twitter on Tuesday that Brazil open any secret archives that could shed light on any role it played in the 1973 coup that killed her father.
Two years before the coup that toppled the leftist leader of Chile, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Medici discussed coordinated intervention in that nation and Cuba, according to a newly declassified document.
With an air of desperation, a hunkered down White House hatched a plan to save Richard Nixon's presidency as the Watergate crisis began to consume it: Demonize the prosecutor in the eyes of lawmakers and the people.
Actress Cynthia Nixon is lobbying New York lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage and says she hopes to marry her partner in New York next year if the law is enacted.
Cynthia Nixon is engaged to her partner, Christine Marinoni.
Declining sales and massive staffing changes at the top of OK!’s masthead have led to much speculation about the weekly’s odds for survival. Now comes evidence that OK! will no longer focus on celebrity news, but will transform into a lifestyle magazine that no longer attempts to compete with the likes of People and Us Weekly.
Even those who’ve never cracked open a comic book know “Watchmen” is on the way. The hype machine’s been in overdrive for the last year, helped by fan enthusiasm and a headline-grabbing court case that threatened its release. Now it’s nearly impossible to avoid the early reviews and raves for the film adaptation of what’s often called “the greatest graphic novel ever written.” For the cool kids in the comic book world, the story of the fight for justice in a climate of global fear is beyond reproach. “Watchmen” is worth the price of admission if only to witness an effort to faithfully bring those pages to the big screen.
For all the disclosures former President Richard Nixon makes in "Frost/Nixon," director Ron Howard has one of his own.
You know how a comedian can completely ruin his own joke by stopping to explain the punch line? The filmmakers behind “Frost/Nixon” do the same thing, undercutting some of the film’s most powerful moments by tossing in scenes where the characters tell the audience what it has already seen.
Some tidbits culled from the 90,000 pages of documents that offer insight into the power players of Richard Nixon's administration and re-election committee. The documents were released Tuesday by the National Archives' Nixon Library.
In December 1972, when a less complicated president might have been relishing a big re-election victory a month earlier, Richard Nixon had enemies on his mind.
If you watched Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK,” and came away with the belief that everybody did it, you also unintentionally stumbled into a debate about the responsibilities of filmmakers dealing with historical subject matter. “JFK” still stands as the most notorious example of how Hollywood sometimes takes facts, puts them in a blender, then serves the resulting smoothie to often unsuspecting moviegoers.
In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.
- Three days before he won the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama stood in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, and told a crowd of supporters, "We need to get beyond the old ideological debates that divide us between left and right."
Jay Nixon has attended his share of groundbreaking ceremonies during a 22-year political career as a state senator and Missouri's longest serving attorney general.
Tom Landry and Don Shula hardly needed much help. Between them, the two coaches would win 617 games in the NFL. And in 1972, they had led strong teams to Super Bowl VI. Still, a couple of presidents determined that neither man could capture their championship without their assistance.
Senior officials in the Nixon administration discussed a desire to stop the newly elected government of leftist Chilean President Salvador Allende from taking power in 1970, according to recently declassified transcripts of those conversations made public Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - According to eight years of Sen. John McCain’s medical records reviewed by The Associated Press, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee appears to be cancer-free and is generally in good health.
WASHINGTON - His hair was white, his face was puffy and red, but Sen. Ted Kennedy’s voice still had that stirring resonance that set Democrats’ pulses racing and brought them to their feet.
One of President Nixon's daughters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, apparently supports a Democrat in this year's presidential contest — Barack Obama.
What Richard Nixon knew about Watergate: forensic experts investigateThirty-five years after Nixon was forced to become the only US president to resign, government investigators remain determined to find out the extent of knowledge of the raid on the Democratic National Committee's offices in Washington.
Sarah Palin urges Israel settlement expansion, wants to reverse US policy of last 40 yearsHer latest bombshell: to effectively call for an end to 40 years of official government policy on Israel in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters....
Obama in Nixon's footsteps at Great WallBarack Obama on Wednesday made an obligatory stop at the Great Wall of China at the close of a three-day visit in which he also bumped against the "great firewall" of China. Much like Richard Nixon, the president who first travelled behind the "bamboo curtain" in 1972 an …
You could buy a lot of health care for $400,000 - we'll get back to that.
Fox News promotetd the Tea Parties and Town Hallers movements in August and the 9-12 Project that grew out of these groups with founder Glen Beck of Fox News..
Walkom: Afghanistan sacrifices may have been in vain - thestar.comWhere does the war in Afghanistan go? My sense is that it is finally beginning the long and drawn-out process toward an inglorious end. For Canada, this would mark the finish of the longest – and the least considered – war that this country has ever fought.
Beware of the Self-Destructive CoreWhom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)
It's getting close to crunch time - something is about to be passed but it is still likely not to resemble any sort of significant reform.
Is Obama the New Nixon? Do enemies' lists and attack politics remind you of anything? "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun…Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles fans." — Barack Hussein Obama, June 13, 2008
Fox News as the Enemy? Are Obama's Nixon-like tactis against the media starting to backfire?The White House has declared war on Fox News.
Criticizing Fox isn't Nixonian. But Fox is. To understand what is going on today, it is essential to remember that where Ailes came from, "Nixonian" was not an insult but a badge of honor -- and seething hatred and even persecution of the press, rather than mere criticism, was a way of life.
In recent weeks, the White House has begun to take on its most vocal critics directly, with notable examples being the US Chamber of Commerce and Fox News.
Sen. Alexander Accuses Obama of Using Nixon-Style Tactics on CriticsA top Republican senator accused the Obama White House on Wednesday of using Nixon-style tactics to vilify political opponents and members of the media, suggesting the administration is on the brink of compiling its own "enemies list."
Harvard Kennedy School - Presidential Advisors Offer Perspectives at Kennedy School ForumThree former presidential advisors whose White House tenures stretched from Presidents Kennedy through Clinton swapped stories and strategies during a panel discussion Tuesday night (Oct. 13) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
The white house has been noted as singling out FOX News as supporting only republicans, and being unfair to the administration. Compared to other liberal networks like CNN, MSNBC, and ABC, FOX is somewhat more conservative than they claim.
Appropriate Attacks on the Press?Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama administration is escalating its war of words against the news organization, and in recent weeks, the White House has begun using its taxpayer-funded blog to directly attack what it called "Fox lies."
Obama's Nobel: 'Well Deserved' - George's Bottom LineIt took me by surprise, But so did Nixon's win!
Works and Days: The Power of Payback for ObamaObama is now caught and tumbling to or below 50% approval.
William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79William Safire has died on Sunday, September 27, 2009, as stated in this New York Times article.
Obama is not the first President to fight the health care fightHealth care is not a new issue.
James Moore: The Lies of Texas Are Upon You"We tell people not to mess with Texas but that's because we reserve the right to mess it up ourselves, which we are doing quite effectively....But this is Texas and the long, proud march backwards presses on; except we may soon begin dragging the nation with us into the 18th cen …
Missing Richard NixonMany of the retrospectives on Ted Kennedy's life mention his regret that he didn't accept Richard Nixon's offer of a bipartisan health care deal. The moral some commentators take from that regret is that today's health care reformers should do what Mr.
The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor,
What if -- Obama logic applied to presidencies past"McKinley encourages gun presence at town hall meets," "HOOVER FILLS TREASURY WITH J.P. MORGAN EXECUTIVES," "LBJ: 'War on Poverty' too costly" and other mightabeen headlines...
In America, crazy is a pre-existing conditionGood thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill -- because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites.
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