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  • POLL TO FREEP: Who is your favorite American President?

    02/20/2012 6:41:45 PM PST · by NorCoGOP · 67 replies · 16+ views
    Greeley Tribune ^ | 02/18/2012
    On front page of website, no registration required.Shockingly, neither Carter nor the present occupant of the White House are choices...
  • The Next Wave

    09/18/2011 7:01:59 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 27 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 18, 2011 | Salena Zito
    Another wave is coming, Washington – and “the ‘ins’ may be thrown out, and the ‘outs’ may be thrown in,” according to Michael Genovese, Loyola University political-science professor. Genovese thinks the economic and political turbulence of the past 12 years are “eerily similar” to the Panic of 1893 and the unsettling election cycles of 1884 to 1896. Both eras feature fantastic wealth created for a privileged few, fiercely competitive and highly partisan elections, an ineffectual and seemingly corrupt government, and an angry, disillusioned electorate. And both have had populist movements – the Progressives of the late 1800s, the Tea Party...
  • the Republicans passed the Land-Grant College Acts

    08/30/2010 12:36:25 PM PDT · by Michael Zak · 3 replies
    Grand Old Partisan ^ | August 30, 2010 | Michael Zak
    On this day in 1890, President Benjamin Harrison (R-IN) signed into law the Second Land-Grant College Act. The law, written by Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT), made African-Americans eligible to attend land-grant colleges. Specifically, the law required any state that banned African-Americans from attending land-grant colleges to establish land-grant colleges for those students. Back then, there was no legal or judicial means for the federal government to compel state governments to cease racial discrimination, so this law was actually a big step forward.