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Amanpour & Company: ‘Civil War Confederate President Wasn’t Tried, Why It Matters In Donald Trump Case’

Source:Amanpour & Company talking to New Yorker columnist Jill Lepore. Source:The New Democrat “Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. In her latest piece … Continue reading

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Frank DiStefano: ‘Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Campaign, Why Wilson Wasn’t Really a Progressive!’

Source:Frank DiStefano– talking about Theodore Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson. “In this episode, we talk about Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 “Bull Moose” Progressive Party campaign and the three-way presidential contest over progressivism. The 1912 election involved three candidates, Republican William Howard Taft, … Continue reading

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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: The Confederacy

Source:The Daily Review I believe this is an example of where Britain is very different from America. In Britain, you basically only have one government because the United Kingdom is a unitarian government with most of the governmental power in … Continue reading

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National Review: John Fund: ‘Setting The Record Straight On Jim Crow’

Source:The New Democrat  What John Fund doesn’t seem to understand or perhaps is ignoring, which is possible because he is a bright guy is that the Southern Democrats who blocked the civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s are … Continue reading

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Patrick J. Buchanan: ‘Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy and the Big Liberal Lie’

Source:The New Democrat  I first saw Pat Buchanan’s column about Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy over the fourth as I checked my email that day. And because of other things I’ve done the last few days it’s just now that I’m … Continue reading

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