May 2, 2007

Bull Connor, Democrat

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights....

April 16, 2007

DC Emancipation Day

Today, the nation's capital celebrates "Emancipation Day" -- commemorating the Republican Party's abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, on April 16, 1862.  That's right, the Republican Party freed the slaves in DC, despite ...

March 30, 2007

A Bipartisan Ticket?

Any Republican interested in a proposal by Unity08 for a bipartisan ticket should consider the disaster that befell the country when the GOP did nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket.  In 1864, President Lincoln's running mate was a Democrat...

March 6, 2007

Republican Justices Dissented from the Dred Scott Decision

In his inauguration address, Democrat President James Buchanan hinted that he had been tipped off that the Supreme Court would soon render a decision that he believed would settle the question of slavery in the territories.  Two days later, on t...

February 27, 2007

Lincoln at Cooper Union

On this day in 1860 (a year later in the political cycle than he would have today), Abraham Lincoln launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.  Shrewdly, he chose the home ground of the front-runner, Senator William Seward...

February 20, 2007

Herbert Brownell, GOP civil rights hero

During February, Black History Month, Republican candidates and office-holders should hail the GOP's heritage of civil rights achievement.  A forgotten hero of the modern-day civil rights movement, Herbert Brownell, was born on this day in 1904....

June 19, 2006

Republicans celebrate Juneteenth, the end of Slavery

To this day, Republicans owe their sometimes muddled message and inability to campaign effectively against the Democratic Party to their ignorance about the Reconstruction era.  What they think they know is very much the product of history books...