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Government Shutdown: What Would Lincoln Say?

Oct 1, 2013 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, History, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (October 1, 2013)

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Ted Cruz’s 21-Hour Senate Speech Was Full Of a Lot Of Hot Air

Sep 25, 2013 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published: mic (September 25, 2013)

After 21 hours of orating, Senator Ted Cruz’s one-man jeremiad against Obamacare has officially come to an end.

What in the world are we to make of it?

Certainly the punditocracy has not come up short on feedback. Top Republicans are livid at Cruz for what they perceive to be his grandstanding, even going so far as to send research to Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace to be used against him.

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Richard Nixon: The Social Liberal Of His Time

Aug 25, 2013 | Centrism, Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, Health Care Reform, History, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (August 25, 2013)

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This is the Most Important U.S. President That You’ve Never Heard About

Aug 20, 2013 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, History, mic, Race and Racism

Published: mic (August 20, 2013)

As liberals prepare to celebrate President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday today ….

I’m sorry? Most people don’t know that August 20 is Harrison’s birthday, much less care?

Well, that certainly is a pity. After all, if it wasn’t for Harrison, many of the policies liberals consider so important today might have never been enacted.

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Why Today’s Democrats Are Not Like LBJ

May 23, 2013 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Race and Racism

Published: mic (May 23, 2013)

There are days that call for history lessons, and while most liberals don’t realize it, we should definitely insist on May 22 being one of them. After all, it was 49 years ago yesterday that President Lyndon Baines Johnson intoned these words at a speech delivered to a graduating class at the University of Michigan:

“For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent.

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