You still can’t watch Supreme Court proceedings on TV, but you can eavesdrop on them. Oral arguments presented to the Supreme Court have been
Category: History
The first MO woman elected to Congress & the street named for her
If you live in or near St. Louis, you may have walked or driven on a street named in her honor, but you might
Let’s not forget the miners in the coal debate
One of the challenges President Franklin Roosevelt faced in fashioning the New Deal was determining which sections of the nation were most in need
Who’s calling whom the party of no?
The last Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic president to be rejected was in the 19th century. Two of President Grover Cleveland’s nominees failed to receive Senate confirmation in 1894.
“Moscow Maggie” was a Republican
It was known as “Red Baiting:” labeling as “Communists” Americans of good conscience who empathized with the less fortunate. In the early 1950s, in
The curious case of “May Day”
Perhaps no holiday has more varied interpretations or is more politically volatile than “May Day,” the first day of May. Some may know May
A strong and quiet Democrat
Mike Mansfield was a legislative giant, yet his two favorite words might have been “Yep” and “Nope.” He could be a Sunday-morning news show
Baseball and Politics – Part II
Ryan Franklin’s concern for his gun rights just doesn’t measure up to Curt Flood’s personal sacrifice to remove the shackles of the rules of the game that bound a player to a single team for the entirety of his career.
Baseball and Politics – Part I
Like many people, two of my primary interests are politics and sports. They both lend themselves to statistical analysis; they have “seasons” (in both cases too long); and winners are sometimes the wealthy front-runners (George W. Bush or the New York Yankees); other times they are among those with the least resources (Dennis Kucinich or the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays).
Another (possibly) progressive Republican
If he were in the U.S. Senate now, would Scranton collaborate with Democrats? This falls into the world of conjecture, but it’s likely that he would keep his distance from the likes of Mitch McConnell or John Boehner.