A new Siena poll ranks the top presidents in American history:
The Top 15: F. Roosevelt 1 T. Roosevelt 2 Lincoln 3 Washington 4 Jefferson5 Madison6 Monroe7 Wilson 8 Truman 9 Eisenhower10 Kennedy11 Polk12 Clinton13 Jackson14 Obama15
The WORST 15: Coolidge29 Nixon30 Hayes31 Carter32 Taylor33 B. Harrison34 W. Harrison35 Hoover36 Tyler37 Fillmore38 G.W. Bush39 Pierce40 Harding41 Buchanan42 A. Johnson43
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith