Take The City And Run

Directed by Zack Snyder
300 could very well go down as a watershed moment in filmmaking. No, it’s not a particularly great movie; it is entertaining, but it’s not exactly an exercise in sophisticated storytelling. It is, however, groundbreaking as far as technical achievement. For years now, anytime a movie laden with CGI and special effects […]

Of our first seven presidents, only two failed to serve two full terms — John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, served his two full terms from 1829 to 1837. Franklin Roosevelt took office as our longest serving president in 1933, winning four elections — serving three complete terms and dying […]

This article in the NY Times points out that Theodore Roosevelt was in a similar situation to that of Spitzer:
“Roosevelt came in saying he was going to be a reform governor,” Mr. Cunningham said. “He immediately got into a fight with Senator Platt, the head of the Republicans, a powerful political boss in the […]