GOP History

Phil Kerpen, policy analyst extraordinaire at Americans for Prosperity, has written a new book about Barack Obama's regulatory onslaught against the United States: Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America - and How...

A popular conservative blog posted an interesting recap of my explanation of my recent article, novelist Joseph Conrad explains why OccupyDC attacked the Smithsonian Institution: "The other day the splinter protest group in DC tried to occupy the Smithsonian Air...

Here are some photos Grand Old Partisan took yesterday of Stop the Machine! Create a New World at Freedom Plaza, near the White House: Stop the Machine does not, in fact, occupy DC. In fact, it barely has enough people...

"A spectre is haunting the United States." These are photos that Grand Old Partisan took yesterday of the OccupyDC occupation of McPherson Square in downtown DC. Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. Back to...

Grand Old Partisan honors Lyman Trumbull (R-IL), born on this day in 1813. Entering politics as a Democrat, he served as secretary of state of Illinois before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1854. The next year,...

Grand Old Partisan honors Horacio Rivero, the first Hispanic four-star admiral. On this day in 1972, President Richard Nixon appointed him ambassador to Spain. The Puerto-Rico born Rivero had been promoted to the rank of admiral by President Dwight Eisenhower....

Grand Old Partisan salutes Octavius Catto, African-American Republican civil rights activist, murdered by a Democrat on this day in 1871. Born to a freed slave in Charleston SC, Catto moved with his family to Philadelphia as a child. He became...

Yesterday, the OccupyDC rabble tried to occupy (and then trash, of course) the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Conservatives at a loss to comprehend such a senseless act will find the anarchist rationale in a classic novel written more than...

Grand Old Partisan salutes John Hay, who served in the administrations of Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln hired him as one of two private secretaries. Hay had known Lincoln...

Grand Old Partisan salutes Edward Noyes, born this day in 1832. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth, he co-founded the New Hampshire GOP. At the onset of the Civil War, he turned his Cincinnati law office into a recruiting center and...

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and war's desolation, Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation. Then conquer we must,...

A Democrat reporter, David Weigel (Slate) claimed recently that Rutherford Hayes (R-OH) stole the 1876 presidential election. That's just so wrong, big time! Here's the real story, without the Democrat spin: Rutherford Hayes won, and the Democrat nominee, Samuel Tilden,...

Democrat vote fraud is nothing new. Here is more information about my recent article, Hey, Slate.com! Rutherford Hayes won his presidential election fair and square: Samuel Tilden offered an Elector in Florida $50,000 for his vote, and other amounts to...

Grand Old Partisan had the honor of meeting Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN) on Monday at the Hudson Institute. We discussed our mutual admiration for another great Indiana governor, Oliver Morton. Governor Daniels visited the Hudson Institute in support of his...

Antonia Scalia keynoted on Tuesday an event at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns and the Constitution: A Celebration of the Constitution. He denounced the doctrine, prevalent since the Warren Court, that the U.S. Constitution is merely a "collection of...