In this previous post I talked about the Whigs and Democrats policy stances in the early 19th century. I showed that these two parties differed on a wide range of issues. Now I hope to describe their coalitions of support and show how they were linked to the policy views. In other words who supporte...

ObamaNomics The Patriot Post.US Digest- Vol. 09 No. 09 THE FOUNDATION “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. … I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” –Thomas ...

Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

The conservative Republican argues that while Barack Obama promised to be the next Ronald Reagan, he is instead the next Richard Nixon: "First, we saw President Obama’s top advisor, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, use a Sunday-morning national show, Face the Nation, to say Rush Limbaugh i...

Ross Douthat thinks he’s found the secret to the President’s eventual success: What Obama does have, though, is an atmosphere of crisis and a massively-unpopular opposition party, which grants him an unparalleled political opportunity to pass whatever spending the Democratic Party likes,...

Ross Douthat has discovered Barack Obama’s evil genius: What Obama does have, though, is an atmosphere of crisis and a massively-unpopular opposition party, which grants him an unparalleled political opportunity to pass whatever spending the Democratic Party likes, and damn the short-term cost...

Words matter.  Obama won the election with pretty words.  Expressing your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and yes -- your objections -- is not only your right but it is your responsibility as American citizens.   The Obama administration wants you to sit down and shut up. ...

Reflecting on how party rising stars Republican Bobby Jindal and Democrat Kathleen Sebelius were both panned for their responses to presidential speeches, Kansas City Star columnist Steve Kraske declared such an invitation to be a losing proposition for a politician. “Why doesn’t it work?� he ...

Monday Brief - Vol. 09 No. 09 THE FOUNDATION “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson INSIGHT “One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in esta...