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  • 1824: The Strangest Presidential Election Yet

    1824: The Strangest Presidential Election Yet0

    The Era of Good Feelings. Not exactly the best descriptor for our own times is it? Spanning from the mid-1810s through the end of President James Monroe’s second term in 1824, the Era of Good Feelings was a time in which the Democratic-Republican Party enjoyed practically unopposed control of the United States following the Federalist Party’s

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  • Sam Adams Speaks to Voter ID and Other Election Day Matters

    Sam Adams Speaks to Voter ID and Other Election Day Matters0

    It’s time to head to the polls where the lines will be likely be long, but the election day will be short, to paraphrase a common saying! Our minds, as we stand in line, will likely drift to various poll numbers, final campaign speeches from the candidates, or daydreams of what life will be like

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  • What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?

    What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?0

    Only a few days remain until the Nov. 3 election, and – as in many years prior – the old chestnut of “long lines” at the polling places has appeared again right on schedule. The difference this time is that many are calling any line a sign of organized “voter suppression” or the new buzzword,

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  • A Biden Court-Packing Plan Could Be Worse Than FDR’s

    A Biden Court-Packing Plan Could Be Worse Than FDR’s0

    Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court.  The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices

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  • Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls

    Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls0

    The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion

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  • Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’

    Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’0

    Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, welcome to the ranks of riot-ravaged cities! Unrest is exploding once again in a major American city, this time following the death of Walter Wallace, a mentally unstable black man killed after advancing on police with a knife. Wallace’s family has pleaded with people to not riot in his name,

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