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People who’ve followed my work for a while know that I am a monarchist in the real sense of the word. As a result of this, I correspondingly tend to believe that whiggery as a governing philosophy doesn’t work very well (and in the long run I’m right). However, I am willing to grant that there are times and places where systems with whiggish tendencies, or at least things approaching them, were relatively successful and socially stable. The reason is because these systems met some criteria that, however temporarily, enabled them to curtail democratic tendencies that always lead to social...

There is a Tory tradition in America that runs against the grain of establishment Liberalism, embracing home, hearth, community, family, church, nature, and the moral realities of everyday life, and opposed to individualism, unlimited free markets, libertarianism, secularism, and the rootless loneliness of global modernity. This tradition comes from within America, not without. “Conservatism,” a movement built in the unique pressures of the Cold War, is metamorphosing into new forms. The Cold War is long over. New considerations based on new circumstances are emerging on the Right—in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States—that closely resemble those of Saintsbury’s...

This is the announcement of the formation of the American Whig Party. We are an alternative to the Communist Democrats and the Chamber-of-Communism Republicans.

Modern Whig Party candidate Robert “Heshy” Bucholtz, a 39-year old software engineer, was voted in as an election judge in the Democratic bastion of Rhawnhurst in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. This is one of the first Whig candidates elected since the party became defunct in the 1860’s, and Bucholtz is the only Modern Whig currently in office. The last Whig politician to serve in Philadelphia was Robert Conrad, who was mayor of the city from 1854-1856.Bucholtz won by a vote of 36-24. He is now responsible for overseeing equipment and procedures at the polls.The Modern Whig Party portrays itself as the...

We all know the story of American independence, don't we? A rugged frontier people became increasingly tired of being ruled by a distant elite. A group calling themselves Patriots were especially unhappy about being taxed by a parliament in which they were unrepresented. When, in 1775, British redcoats tried to repress them, a famous Patriot called Paul Revere rode through the night across eastern Massachusetts, crying 'The British are coming'. The shots that were fired the next day began a war for independence which culminated the following year in the statehouse of Philadelphia, when George Washington and others, meeting under...

Dear GOP, This is your last chance. If you blow this, I'm out and you need to be destroyed. What is it? Repeal ObamaCare on Day 1. Don't worry about replace, don't worry about anything else. We will do everything we have to drag your sorry asses over the line this fall, including electing Mitt [...] Romney. In return this is what you will do: Instead of adjourning for pictures and tea and cake to celebrate getting your pathetic asses elected to 2 or 6 years on the government teet, you will immediately pass a one line bill that says,...

As a political party, the Whig’s were torn apart in the decade leading up to the Civil War due to internal conflicts emanating from disagreement over how to hold the American Republic together. Pre Civil War Whig’s included Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln who first ran for Congress as a member of the Whig Party. While Lincoln was the first Republican President, his philosophy was essentially Whig. What was the Whig philosophy of Abraham Lincoln and what does it teach us today? Lincoln believed in individual rights and this would lead him to issue the...

In 1831, Henry Clay formed a new political party. He called it the Whig Party. His goal was to ensure Jeffersonian democracy and fight President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat. Over the course of the next 20 years, the Whig Party achieved several presidential victories. But as slavery assumed more and more national importance in the political debate, the Whig Party began to shatter. Southern Whigs were slave owners; Northern Whigs were industrial gurus who hated slavery. In 1849, the Illinois Whig leader, one Abraham Lincoln, quit politics completely in frustration with the party's inability to come together. With the Compromise...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Jason in Atlanta. Great to have you on the program, sir. You are up first. CALLER: Hey, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you, man. RUSH: Thanks. CALLER: Hey listen, man, I am outraged with Boehner and I'm outraged with this old guard Republican. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm livid to the point I e-mailed Boehner yesterday and told him he would never get a dime from me again. I'll never support the Republican Party again. RUSH: Well -- CALLER: These guys... Boehner was on Hannity yesterday, Rush, saying he fought like a...

History has attributed to the War of 1812 the label of "The Second War for American Independence". It is regarded as an American victory not because of any military achievement, but because it etched American independence from Britain in stone. In contemporary terms, the war was a disaster, with the British easily occupying Detroit, chasing a fleeing President Madison from the capital, and setting many public landmarks ablaze. It was during this conflict that great anti-war opposition in the North East led to the Hartford Convention. Small-minded men of the waning Federalist Party, who never got over the ascendancy of...

Balding star's wiggo Jacko Don't crop till you get enough ... Jacko in what experts claim is wig       By THOMAS WHITAKER Showbiz Reporter EXPERTS yesterday claimed to have spotted the bald truth about Michael Jackson — he wears a WIG.Wacko Jacko’s mad dash to court in his pyjamas is said to have let the cat out of the bag on his syrup.Photos of the star’s bonce appeared to show a mesh cap with false hair sewn in.Top British hairdresser Feleny Georghiou — whose clients include Victoria Beckham and the Duchess of York — declared: “It is definitely...

Nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free; but there is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty…Liberty is generally established with difficulty in the midst of storms; it is perfected by civil discords; and its benefit cannot be appreciated until it is already old. A. de Tocqueville CHAPTER FOUR Sub-chapters 1 - 5 1. Though freedom is not a state of nature but an artifact of civilization, it did not arise from design. The institutions of freedom, like everything freedom has created, were not established because people foresaw the benefits they would bring....

WASHINGTON -- Sometimes, a nut with a gun is only a nut with a gun. If the moment is right, though, a nut with a gun becomes the stuff of political mythologies.This comes to mind as I sit in the shadow of Capitol Hill, penned in by the sniper who has laid siege to this town's suburban perimeter all week. In the midst of this peculiarly American form of fear, I am kept aloft with a diet of crab cakes and bourbon, and a very thick and fitting new book, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War.Mr. James was...

  When Abraham Lincoln first entered politics in 1832 he announced to Illinois voters that "My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank . . . in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff." These three things – central banking, protectionism, and what we today call corporate welfare (for the railroad and road-building industries) are what Lincoln would devote the next twenty-eight years to achieving, working tirelessly in the political trenches of the Whig and Republican parties. In doing so he became a master politician,...