The history behind an exclusive but lesser-known presidential club
When Joe Biden was sworn in as the nation s 46th president, he joined an exclusive but lesser-known club of those who d come before.
Joe Biden s full name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. He is one of 10 other commanders-in-chief through history named after their fathers. Others in the group include James Madison Jr., Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Calvin Coolidge Jr.
Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, told CBS News Dana Jacobson he isn t surprised presidents don t use the junior distinction. I m not surprised that presidents or any politician would choose not to call themselves junior. Because what is the word junior but diminutive? It s saying you re lesser something, or at the very most you are a copy of something, he said. So we see presidents who found themselves using junior throughout most of their life, but when they wanted to get a pu
By John Friend
Immigration continues to be the most critical issue facing the entire Western world, as millions of so-called “refugees” and “asylum seekers” flood both Western Europe and the United States with the direct assistance of Western governments, the United Nations, and a wide variety of non-profit organizations, activist groups, and refugee advocacy agencies.
According to statistics recently released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 38,135 unaccompanied alien children lone children entering the U.S. illegally, most of whom are hoping to reunite with other family members already living here illegally were apprehended in the month of April alone. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens are apprehended and detained every month along the southwestern border in the U.S., with the majority of them coming from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The deportation process can take weeks, if not months, and is subject to court appeal.
When the government fears the people there is liberty! -Thomas Jefferson
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January 7, 2021
Well, fellow Americans, the cancer which has been growing for decades under the regimes of President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush and President Barack Hussein Obama has finally reached terminal stage 4 and has now broken out into the open. It is no wonder that these three failed presidents in particular, and I can add to this list their hapless and confused predecessor Jimmy Carter, condemned as an illegitimate anti-democratic insurrection the events at the Capitol last Wednesday, after Vice President Michael Pence stabbed his president Donald Trump as well as We the People in the back by not sending certain presidential elector certifications back to the states over voting constitutional violations and outright fraud.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack Obama, as chief law enforcement officer of the United States, is going to have to stop acting like a conscientious objector in this war on cops. On August 2, another officer, in Fox Lake, Illinois, Lt. Charles “GI Joe” Gliniewicz, was gunned down. On August 28, Darren Goforth, a Houston deputy sheriff, was shot 15 times by an alleged black racist.
Obama called the widow of Goforth, but he has yet to show the same indignation and outrage he exhibited at what happened to Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri.
This year, 24 cops have been gunned down. And the day after Goforth’s execution, “Black Lives Matter!” showed up at the Minnesota state fair chanting, “Pigs in a blanket! Fry ‘em like bacon!”
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