The day we discovered our very first indoor water park, I think I heard it at least a hundred times. From each of the kids, my wife, and I believe I said it too (a couple of hundred times), "We'll never do anything else again - indoor water parks are the bomb!" Get our free...
relayed details about UT’s first Texas Independence Day celebration in 1897, when students borrowed a canon from the Capitol and fired it in front of the old Main Building. Another article in the second issue, “The Choosing of the Colors” by Venable Proctor, explained how orange and white...
Like Mondale, Bush enjoys the privilege of an office in the West Wing of the White House—the true corridor of power-in addition to the traditional vice-presidential offices in the old Executive Office Building and on Capitol Hill. Besides attending all Cabinet meetings, Bush has a private ...
Capitol Beastie Boys, 'To the 5 Boroughs' (June 15) To the 5 Boroughswas the first Beastie Boys album following the 9/11 tragedy. The group reflected on the effects of the events, particularly with “An Open Letter to NYC.”To the 5 Boroughsfaced unexpected controversy when music fans be...
The biggest fight brewing on Capitol Hill was the great “freedom fries” debate, a knock against the French for refusing to go in with us. But the response to the war that the Chicks encountered in England was nothing like that. Just three weeks before, one million protesters had marched...
2007: 'JUBILANT DEMOCRATS ASSUME CONTRO ON CAPITOL HILL' In 2006, Democrats walloped their Republican opponents and gained control of both the House and Senate in the critical midterm elections. George W. Bush now had to contend with a Congress controlled by the opposition party, but a far mo...
relayed details about UT’s first Texas Independence Day celebration in 1897, when students borrowed a canon from the Capitol and fired it in front of the old Main Building. Another article in the second issue, “The Choosing of the Colors” by Venable Proctor, explained how orange and white...
But there’s something to Oermann’s reasoning. The Chicks were uppity, but the problem wasn’t that they didn’t behave like proper ladies. The problem was that they didn’t behave like proper country stars. When Garth Brooks got crosswise with Capitol Nashville, he didn’t sue anyone or...