Election
Is Hillary Inevitable?
Looking back over the last century there were two great coalition builders in presidential politics: FDR and Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt broke the Lincoln lock on the presidency that had given Republicans the White House in 56 of the previous 72 years. From 1932 to 1964, FDR’s party would win …
Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack
The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday’s primary for the U.S. Senate. But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel State’s 3rd Congressional District. There, …
Pat Buchanan on His Big Win in the 1996 Louisiana and Alaska Caucuses
Ken Rudin’s Political Junkie Podcast interviews Pat Buchanan for the “This Day in History” feature. Pat talks about his war on the Republican establishment with a big win in the 1996 caucuses in Louisiana, Alaska and New Hampshire. Buchanan joins Ken to remember that moment. Note: Pat’s segment begins at …
The Knives Come Out — for Christie
“Maybe the folks in Washington, D.C., should tune in their TVs right now and see how it’s done,” said the big winner of Tuesday last. “I did not seek a second term to do small things,” Chris Christie went on, but “to finish the job — now watch me do …
Egypt’s Army Crosses the Rubicon
“Sire, clear the square with gunfire or abdicate.” That was the message one of his generals gave the young czar Nicholas I in December of 1825, as thousands of civilians and soldiers massed in Senate Square to challenge his claim to the throne. Nicholas gave the order, the cannons fired, …
Does the South Belong in the Union?
Is the Second Reconstruction over? The first ended with the withdrawal of Union troops from the Southern states as part of a deal that gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency after the disputed election of 1876. The second began with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a century after Appomattox. …
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