Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Jefferson’
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The Van Buren way
Posted on October 24, 2017
“I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson as President. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for such a place. He has...
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Contempt for the Rules of the Senate Leads to Contempt of the Senate
Posted on February 8, 2017
A radical Republican, Charles Sumner was a fierce and outspoken critic of what Kenneth Stampp called the peculiar institution, better known to us as slavery. In 1856, he delivered a...
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Turning Its Back on the Age of Jackson
Posted on April 20, 2016
A day after Donald Trump swept most of New York State’s delegates, trouncing his two remaining opponents by wide margins, the Treasury Department announced that it was kicking Andrew Jackson...
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Obama, Jefferson, Jackson and The Debt
Posted on October 27, 2015
(Originally published on The Hill) It was slightly less than eight years ago when Barack Obama made a name of himself at the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa. Back then,...
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Vacating the Vacation
Posted on July 30, 2015
The House is hitting the highways after passing a three-month extension of the Highway bill. In the game of chicken between the chambers of Congress, both sides blinked and the...
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