Tag: History

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is slated to be the first senator to give birth while in office. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tammy Duckworth is pregnant, will become first senator to give birth while in office

Caitlin Yilek · January 23, 2018 9:31 pm

President Franklin D. Roosevelt has long been an icon for the Left, but Roosevelt detested the "dole" and all that smacked of it. (AP Photo)

FDR knew the importance of working for benefits

Noemie Emery · January 23, 2018 5:17 am

Ronald Reagan was the only major 1968 candidate who wanted to win the Vietnam War, and Reagan saw the hijacking of the USS Pueblo by North Korea as yet another thrust of global communism which needed to be defeated.(Laika ac from USA, via Wikipedia)

50 years later: Ronald Reagan and North Korea’s hijacking of the USS Pueblo

Gene Kopelson · January 23, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, left, presents a jacket imprinted with the words "Democratic Senate '86" to Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., on Capitol Hill, Nov. 6, 1986. (AP Photo/Lana Harris)

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Michael Barone: How a few votes in 1986 set up the 2018 government shutdown

Michael Barone · January 21, 2018 6:16 pm

Feminists who oppose abortion are often drowned out of conversation with their pro-abortion rights sisters. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn)

The original feminism is pro-life

Marilyn Kopp · January 19, 2018 5:01 am

When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., forced a vote recently on obeying the "pay as you go" rule, that would require Congress to offset costs of making large tax cuts by reducing entitlement spending, no Democrats and only seven Republicans joined him. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Sen. Rand Paul: The debt and the decline of empire

Sen. Rand Paul · January 18, 2018 5:00 pm

Terzian: Rise of the Gerontocracy

Philip Terzian · January 18, 2018 10:28 am

In "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic," former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum takes a look at the past powers of an American empire that birthed Trumpism. (screenshot)

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David Frum rewrites the narrative of American empire (and himself) in ‘Trumpocracy’

Davis Richardson · January 18, 2018 12:12 am

Indicating a statue of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Capitol Rotunda, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., drew a sharp distinction between the former military leader and President Trump. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Nancy Pelosi uses Ike to chide Trump: Many can be president, not many can be a five-star general

Diana Stancy Correll · January 17, 2018 10:12 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake made two completely true statements about the words President Trump used. That does not constitute a comparison. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

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Flake didn’t ‘compare’ anyone to Josef Stalin; and stop using ‘compare’ that way, it’s annoying

David Freddoso · January 17, 2018 6:01 pm

Think you've seen severe winter weather? No matter how bad it is where you are, it can't hold a candle to this, the Blizzard of 1880-1881. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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How an unrivaled winter gave us the word ‘blizzard’

J. Mark Powell · January 17, 2018 4:46 pm

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency was founded in 1949 to help Palestinian refugees displaced by Israel's war of independence. It has, without a doubt, evolved into something more today. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)

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US support for UNRWA has gone on long enough

Michael Rubin · January 17, 2018 4:20 am