Posts By James Sheridan
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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...
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Political Education
Bad Guy
You need people like me so you can point your f*****’ fingers and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ So…what that make you?...
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Political Education
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
President Trump released a list of potential Supreme Court picks on September 9th that includes the United States senator from Arkansas, Tom...
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Elections
Donald Trump’s Front Porch Campaign
‘Joe Biden’s Front Porch Campaign‘ looked at the necessity of the Biden campaign keeping all participants safe during the pandemic. The semi-quarantining...
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Political Education
Talking with Conspiracy Theorists
Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” in 1964. Hofstadter used the word ‘paranoid’ in a non-clinical sense because...
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Elections
Whither the Republican Party?
Mark Twain is reputed to have said “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes”. The way conservatives have dealt with today’s...