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You can’t take the conflict out of politics. Nor should you want to.

Every day, we are inundated with the names of people from the past. When you see an advertisement selling insurance for Lincoln Financial Group, drive down a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, or read a book review in the Washington Examiner, you see recognizable names that call to mind stories associated with these historical figures. These titles serve as small monuments to their accomplishments and ask us to remember them.

The literature of natural law is complex, copious, and monthly growing vaster.

The Democratic Party began its convention in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 23, 1860. The incumbent president, James Buchanan, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania who had Southern sympathies but opposed secession. Due to a largely disastrous administration, he had no interest in reelection; still, the Democrats, and Stephen A. Douglas in particular, were favored to win the election. Douglas was a moderate who advocated “popular sovereignty,” or the right of territories and newly admitted...

by Tim Lynch Tim Lynch has taught for thirty years at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he is a professor of History.  He has published extensively in the area of American labor history and protest music, including Strike Songs of the Depression (2001).  Most recently, Tim published To Build a Home: Reflections on Construction (2021) about his experience of building his own home.         The Republican Party may soon live up to its moniker, “The Party of Lincoln,...

Email As Donald Trumps impeachment trial begins, are Republicans headed for a split? The partys roots in Ripon could point the way forward Sharon Roznik, Fond du Lac Reporter Published 3:15 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 RIPON – The newly formed Republican Party spread like a prairie fire through rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Fueling the movement was the unique character of people who settled in and around Ripon, a community whose first citizens were idealists who lived in a commune. Most of these sett...

Senate Republicans have the opportunity to not only convict Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection,” but also punish him with a ban on ever running for political office again, so he could never again be president or the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. If you are a Republican who believes Trump is a figurative cancer on the GOP, then this is your best chance to remove the tumor. The problem, as with any operation, is that the procedure comes with risk. For one thing, the surgeo...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Principle: It’s a notion that’s sadly often absent from the form and function of political parties. But for members of the Republican Party who would espouse the priority of country over party — of principle over partisanship — it is gut-check time. Trumpism has infected the core of the GOP, and the antibodies don’t appear to be working. In a year of pandemic that has taken hundreds of thousands of American lives and ...

Principle: It’s a notion that’s sadly often absent from the form and function of political parties. But for members of the Republican Party who would espouse the priority of country over party — of principle over partisanship — it is gut-check time. Trumpism has infected the core of the GOP, and the antibodies don’t appear to be working. In a year of pandemic that has taken hundreds of thousands of American lives and destroyed countless more livelihoods, much of the par...

Don Fitz And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint; And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profits shall this birthright do me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Genesis 25: 30-33 December 11, 2020 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Despite the bizarre fantasy by Trump supporters that th...