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Falling for it? Again?3 comments

Fidel wrote 3 weeks ago: After the “Ron Paul revolution”, a lot of liberty minded people started to think that jo … more →

Tags: Politics, Republican, Democrat, Federalists, Washington, hamilton, Jefferson, jacksonian, jackson

Review: What Hath God Wraught2 comments

Cameron Blevins wrote 3 weeks ago: Andrew Jackson = bad. Whigs = good. That’s my five-word summary of Daniel Walker Howe’s … more →

Tags: History, Review, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Walker Howe, Democrats

Speaking of Whigs...

tauortao wrote 1 month ago: My ancestor’s political party of old has risen again.  Yes, the Whigs are back.  The Modern Wh … more →

Tags: Politics, Modern Whig Party

Watering Holes: White's Club

Andrew Eastman wrote 1 month ago: N/A #37-38 Saint James Street, London, England If location is everything, then White’s undoubt … more →

Tags: Social Scene, Watering Holes, Beau Brummell, Brooks's Club, Earl of Dartmouth, England, Evelyn Waugh, Francesco Bianco, Francis White

And Tyler's Two

goosecommerce wrote 2 months ago: Or, an example of history repeating, er, threats the man who almost wasn't Though, in fairness to Mr … more →

Tags: The Past is a Foreign...Something, Our Glorious National Heritage, Caleb Cushing, John Tyler

Muddy Whigs, Stuck Wheels

goosecommerce wrote 2 months ago: Sorry for the long(ish) absence. I have been lost in the unruly reeds of the Serial Set, ladies and … more →

Tags: History and Historians, Ten Things I Hate About You, Democrats, Political History, Synthesis

Modern Whig Party--UpDate

lobotero wrote 2 months ago: This is an email I got from the Whig Party…..and you thought they were dead….see what yo … more →

Tags: Politics, News, Society, Political Theory, political parties

Republican Party dead, Tea Party taking over1 comment

Robert Moss wrote 2 months ago:   I agree with former President Ronald W. Reagan. I believe anyone is welcome to the Republican Par … more →

Tags: Conservative, Politics, Congress, GODLY, Nation, obama, reagan, Republican, Socialists

The Way of the Whigs

davidbnava wrote 2 months ago: Percentage of people in the survey who self-identify as Republicans: ABC-WAPO: 21% NYT-CBS:  20% NB … more →

Tags: Socialism, crooks, liars, stock market crash, War on Ideas, War on Education, Republican civil war, Angry White People, republicanism

The Incredible Revisionist History of the Right Wing Nutcases

davidbnava wrote 2 months ago: The continual wingnut assault on FDR is a given, a “known-known” as war criminal Don Rum … more →

Tags: Smoot-Hawley Tariff, crooks, liars, communism, Barack Obama, stock market crash, FDR, Socialism, War on Ideas

Arlen Specter is a symptom of a much larger problem2 comments

morelightthanheat wrote 2 months ago: Sen. Arlen Specter has switched parties. Yes, that presumably brings the Senate one closer to having … more →

Tags: Republican Party, filibuster, Arlen Specter, No-nothings, Senate

Hiatus until May 12th

way2opinionated wrote 2 months ago: As much fun as it is to ridicule the most incompetent administration and the most venal Congress in … more →

Tags: Politics, obama, Incompetence

John B. Weller: Gold Rush Era Politician2 comments

mrstkdsd wrote 2 months ago: John B. Weller (Image from www.house.gov) While searching for “California Gold Rush” new … more →

Tags: Crime, gold-rush, Lifestyles, Poetry Corner, Politics, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1857

Tea Parties: A Mass Movement of Ordinary People2 comments

steadyjohn wrote 3 months ago: …a mass movement of ordinary people who don’t feel that their voices are being heard doe … more →

Tags: Community Events, Generational Theft, Liberal Follies, National Politics, Obama budget, State Sovreignty, tea parties, GOP, Mass movement

More News From the Republican Civil War

davidbnava wrote 4 months ago: Alexander Stephens, a Southern Whig, once a friend of Abraham Lincoln, later VP of the CSA. Reports … more →

Tags: crooks, liars, Republican civil war, republicanism, Republicans, Weimar Republic, Sarah Palin's Tits, Great Depression of 2009, Republican Obstruction

Why Pick On The Whigs?

lobotero wrote 5 months ago: In some past writings I have compared tthe future of the GOP to the old Whig Party….I still th … more →

Tags: Politics, News, Republicans, Democrats, political parties, change

Of Course They Elected Steele

davidbnava wrote 5 months ago: Even the Republicanists aren’t so stupid as to court a headline which reads “GOP rejects … more →

Tags: War on Ideas, crooks, liars, Republican civil war, Angry White People, republicanism, Republicans, Republican Obstruction, david duke

2008 Countdown: 6, 5, 41 comment

drbristol wrote 5 months ago: The countdown of the Best Albums of 2008 continues…more of the top ten!   6. The Quireboys:  Home … more →

Tags: Reviews, Features and Interviews, Music Reviews, Music, Editorial, Awards, "best of 2008", Countdown, Foxboro Hot Tubs

The "Forty Million Debt" Made Tommy Cry

mrstkdsd wrote 6 months ago: Loco Foco Hardtimes Token From the Albany Evening Journal. DISTRESSING SCENE! — The Forty Mill … more →

Tags: Politics, 1839, locofoco, William H. Seward, Forty Million Debt, Mudslinging


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