[VIDEO] Freedom 101

Posted: February 5, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 1960s, American exceptionalism, Barry Goldwater, Democratic Party (United States), Freedom, JFK, Liberty, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Republican Party, RFK, Ronald Reagan, United States, USA, video, White House | Leave a comment

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A video crash-up covering the political landscape of the 1960’s, featuring MLK, RFK, JFK, Malcom X, Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater.

[VIDEO] Nixon’s 1968 RNC Acceptance Speech

Posted: July 21, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Politics, White House | Tags: 1960s, 1968, GOP, GOP Convention, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew | Leave a comment

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[VIDEO] The Republican Party, 1854-2016

Posted: May 4, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump, George Bush, GOP, media, news, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, video, Washington Free Beacon | Leave a comment

[VIDEO] O’Rourke: Trump ‘Double Agent,’ Cruz ‘Dragging In’ ‘Old Social Issues,’ I ‘Hate It With This Immigration Stuff’

Posted: December 26, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: CNN, CNN Tonight, GOP, P. J. O'Rourke, Republican Party, Salem witch trials, Social Issues, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment

“Cruz could actually get…nominated. I’m assuming that Trump will finally be exposed as a double agent, and will have to be stuck in a Chappaqua safe house, or wherever Hillary has got Bill stashed. But Cruz could actually get the nomination, and that would just be a disaster for the Republican Party. He’s dragging in all these tired, sick, old social issues, get out of here. Stop it with the stuff about the gay marriage.”

Author and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke stated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will finally be exposed as a double agent,” criticized GOP presidential candidate Texas Senator for “dragging in all these tired, sick, old social issues” and said of Cruz and Trump, “I really do hate it with this immigration stuff” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight.”

“Bring in a boring guy. Okay, Republican candidates are supposed to be boring. We’ve got several that’ll do just fine, there’s Jeb. Kasich is a perfect example, a good boring governor of a purple state, very popular governor of a purple state, lots of experience in the House of Representatives, and he’s polling at like no percent.”

O’Rourke said, “Cruz could actually get…nominated. I’m assuming that Trump will finally be exposed as a double agent, and will have to be stuck in a Chappaqua safe house, or wherever Hillary has got Bill stashed. But Cruz could actually get the nomination, and that would just be a disaster for the Republican Party.

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He’s dragging in all these tired, sick, old social issues, get out of here. Stop it with the stuff about the gay marriage, stop it with the — I’m a 68-year-old guy with three kids, I’m supposed to raise my own children? Come on, I need immigration.”

“I don’t get it. They have gone crazy for Trump, who is just a bad man. I mean, that kind of language, I mean, honestly, you know, I mean, it’s like talking to some drunk guy in a bar at midnight. And people are going for it. I just don’t understand.”

He added, “bring in a boring guy. Okay, Republican candidates are supposed to be boring. We’ve got several that’ll do just fine, there’s Jeb. Kasich is a perfect example, a good boring governor of a purple state, very popular governor of a purple state, lots of experience in the House of Representatives, and he’s polling at like no percent.”

“I thought there was a Republican establishment who was supposed to keep things like Trump or, for that matter, Cruz from happening, and then I realized, no, they’re all dead. I’m the Republican establishment now. And it was a sad and burdensome thing to find out. And I wish I knew what to do.”

O’Rourke continued, “that’s what being a Republican is all about is low energy. We want a smaller government, a more efficient government, a government that doesn’t poke its nose into everybody’s business. Read the rest of this entry »

BREAKING: Trump Signs ‘The Pledge’

Posted: September 3, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Donald Trump, GOP, Jim Geraghty, National Review, Republican Party, Rince Priebus, Third Party, United States, White House | Leave a comment

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Jim Geraghty writes:

…Obviously, it is good news for the GOP in that it makes it less likely that Trump will run third party or independent. Those of us with long memories will observe that politicians have broken loudly-proclaimed pledges like this before….(read more)

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This Day In History: December 6, 1865, The 13th Amendment is Ratified

Posted: December 6, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, U.S. News | Tags: Abraham Lincolln, Constitution, Library of Congress, Ratification, Republican Party, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, United States | 4 Comments

Image: Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, wood engraving, 1865 (Library of Congress).

On this day in 1865, the institution of slavery legally ended with the ratification of the 13th Amendment, just seven months after the end of the Civil War. The House passed the measure in January 1865, yet it became official almost a year later when Georgia’s ratification completed the constitutionally required approval by three quarters of the states. Georgia was the 27th state to ratify out of 36 at the time.

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