Slavery Abolition

Does anyone recall the Reform Party of Canada's campaign starting in the late 1980s to impose on our country a "triple-e Senate" -- that is to say elected, effective, and, above all, "equal"? Pushed by the likes of Calgary-area farmer Bert Brown and would-be philosopher king Preston Manning, this call for…

The defining story of the 2020 election is, of course, Joe Biden’s apparent victory over Donald Trump. Though Democrats fell short of a once-in-a-generation landslide victory, they convinced a substantial majority of voters to reject an irredeemable racist. But voters across America, from reliably blue states in the Northeast to…

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Early Tuesday night, Fox News gave Democratic viewers rare cause for optimism. Exit polls, the network reported, had found that 70 percent of voters support increased government spending on green and renewable energy. Seventy-two percent were somewhat or very concerned about the effects of climate change. It tracked with polling…

Rev. Al Sharpton puts a stop to Trump's attempts at comparing himself to the United States' sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.Nov. 1, 2020 Read More

Will.i.am debuted a new pro-Joe Biden video this week along with Jennifer Hudson that has an uplifting message, but he also was sharply critical of President Donald Trump. In a conversation with The Washington Post Live, the Black Eyed Peas singer took issue with Trump’s claim that he has done…

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Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was intended to raise up black Americans. Instead it benefitted bureaucrats and big unions.President Johnson meets with four leaders of the civil rights movement, discussing the president's war on poverty, and the effect of poverty on the African American population. Credit: Getty ImagesThe question of…

Math, apparently, remains hard. Except, perhaps, calculus of a political sort. On its face, Health Minister Tyler Shandro's claim that firing 11,000 low-paid public sector health-care employees will save about $600 million makes little sense. Others have done the same calculation and come up with similar results, but it is…