Posts By James Sheridan
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Elections
The fault is not in our stars…
In his play ‘Julius Caesar’ William Shakespeare has one of his characters say, “The fault… is not in our stars, But in...
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Political Education
Free Reality Winner
In 2017, Reality Winner, a contractor with the NSA, leaked information about Russian interference in the U.S. elections to the media. She...
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Political Education
“Typhoid Mary”- an Asymptomatic Carrier
In 1907, New York City experienced a typhoid outbreak that may have been caused by an asymptomatic carrier known by the moniker...
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Political Education
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Martha Beall Mitchell, nicknamed the “Mouth of the South” was the wife of President Nixon’s Attorney Geneal, John N. Mitchell.. Washington D.C....
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Political Education
Margaret Chase Smith’s Declaration of Conscience
Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Margaret Chase Smith, The Journal of the National...
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Political Education
The Snatching of J.B. Pritzker
Now it comes, the winter of 2020. After a long hard ten or eleven months, times are very tough indeed. With the...
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Labor or Unions
What Does Labor Want?
Labor leader Samuel Gompers was once asked, ‘What does labor want?’ He responded: “We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books...
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Political Education
Stare Decisis
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has said that a nominee can’t answer about specific cases, but questions about judicial philosophy should...
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Political Education
Deep State: The Fourth Branch of Government
After General Eisenhower won the presidential election in 1952, outgoing President Harry Truman said, “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this!...
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Political Education
Political Acrimony
The process of replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court has already turned into a bitter partisan battle. The political...