even the gop's first post-new deal president, the former gen. dwight eisenhower, sponsored a domestic policy agenda focused on using government to promote economic growth. he spent over $200 billion in 2016 dollars to build the interstate highway and increased the nationwide gas tax to pay ...
The historic Route 66 highway, stretching 2,200 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, was officially removed from the United States Highway System after being replaced by segments of the Interstate Highway System. The iconic road had long represented the spirit of cross-country adventure and ...
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. —Fareed ...
The FBI and other agencies are investigating the drones, which have been flying over parts of New Jersey, including President-elect Donald Trump’s golf club and military installations, for over three weeks. New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia said on social media that she was told in a bri...
Stevens Point has a second ghostly tourist site near Boy Scout Lane: the Highway 66 Bridge, also known as Bloody Bride Bridge. Legend has it that a lady planned to marry her lover after going through many trials and tribulations. It seemed like a classic tale of Romeo and Juliet with a...
“Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it,” President Roosevelt said at the time. The First Football Fan called togethercollege footballrule-makers at the end of 1905 season. He demanded they find a way to make the...
The message referred to the “Fight For Freedom” and “Demand for a Constitutional Free & Fair Election.” Confirmed rally speakers included the My Pillow Guy, with groups like Latinos for Trump and MAGA Drag the Interstate involved. The latter group had helped organized Tru...
The origins of socialism can be traced back to the late 18th century, particularly the works of philosophers like Robert Owen and Charles Fourier.7But socialism did not become a prominent political and economic movement until the mid-19th century as a reaction to the social problems created by ...
The Riegle-Neal Act of 1994 repealed the provision within the McFadden Act prohibiting interstate banking, thus enabling national banks to open branches across state lines. Understanding the McFadden Act On Feb. 25, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed the McFadden Act into law. The act came ...
By the time Friedman died in 2006 at the age of 94, his theories had been so influential that theWall Street Journalsaid that he had “reshaped modern capitalism” and “provided the intellectual foundations for the anti-inflation, tax-cutting, and antigovernment policies” of President Ronald...