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"Jesse D. Bright, the traitor, is hereby and forthwith expelled from the United States Senate." -- Senate Resolution, passed in 1862

The Maryland Democratic Party is calling for an apology from Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele for endorsing a book by an author who accuses Democrats of exploiting blacks but is declining to seek an apology from national party Chairman Howard Dean for describing Republicans as a 'white Christian party.' Mr. Lierman this week began circulating a letter asking fellow Democrats to sign a petition calling on Mr. Steele, a Republican, to apologize for praising the book Back to Basics for the Republican Party, by Michael Zak. The book celebrates the Republican Party's anti-slavery founders and urges Republicans to challenge Democratic...

As America honors its fallen military heroes this Memorial Day, Republicans can be proud that the holiday was established by one of their own, Senator John Logan (R-IL). Logan Circle in Washington, DC and Logan Square in Chicago were named after him. As head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an early veterans organization, John Logan proclaimed that on May 30, 1868 Americans should honor the soldiers and sailors who died in the Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. Five thousand people came to Arlington National Cemetery for the first Memorial Day ceremony. The principal speaker that...

CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY New York City, NY – Joining us this week will be Michael Zak, author and Executive Director of the Lincoln-Reagan Freedom Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation for the heritage of the Republican Party. We will discuss his book, “Back to Basics for the Republican Party”, a history of the GOP. To learn more, please select the following: http://www.www.republicanbasics.com http://www.lincolnreaganfoundation.org “The CORE Hour” airs live every Tuesday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST on the internet at www.RIGHTALK.com and is replayed over the weekend.

The idea for implementing such a motion probably originated with an Internet posting on a conservative Web site written in 2003 by the author of “Back to Basics for the Republican Party,” Michael Zak, who has done extensive research on the GOP’s historical support for civil rights. The article brought Mr. Zak to the attention of the director of outreach at the Senate Policy Committee, Barbara Ledeen. Mr.Zak later explained his idea to a policy adviser in the office of the Senate majority leader, Senator Frist of Tennessee. Mr. Zak also sent his option idea by e-mail to several key...

The Lincoln-Reagan Freedom Foundation is dedicated to promoting greater appreciation for the heritage of the Republican Party, founded as a civil rights movement in 1854. This "Grand Old Party" has an extraordinary, though overlooked, record of achievement in advancing civil rights in the United States and around the world. Celebrating a Century and a Half of Civil Rights Achievement by the Republican Party For the past century and a half, the Republican Party has proven to be the most effective political organization ever to champion equality and human rights in the United States and around the world. From President Lincoln's...

In commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Republican Party, the Republican Policy Committee has produced the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar, to put some of the many important Republican achievements in advancing civil rights before today's students, families, and citizens from all walks of life who wish to be better informed about our national heritage. The history of our party is as remarkable as it is untold. And it is under-appreciated for that reason. In 1854, anti-slavery activists organized themselves into a new political party, the Republican Party, which would eventually become the mightiest force for individual liberty in the...

Race and the GOP, by ALICIA COLON The numbers for Tuesday's Democratic primary are shocking. Roughly 700,000 of the 5 million-plus registered voters bothered to vote. If I were the DNC, I would be concerned about the upcoming election. Their almost-crowned candidate, John Kerry, had the hilarity to suggest that he would be following in President Clinton's footsteps to be the second black president. Poor Reverend Al Sharpton couldn't even get more than 8% in his home base and yet the multimillionaire Mr. Kerry thinks he can relate to the black community as well as po' boy Clinton. I live...

This Saturday at 11am (not 9:30) I -- aka Grand_Old_Partisan -- will have a book signing at CPAC for the third edition of my acclaimed history of the GOP, "Back to Basics for the Republican Party".

When President Jacques Chirac delivered his televised speech about the Hijab (female Muslim scarf) in France, I believed there would be an immediate Jihad against France. I anticipated a wide array of Jihadist offensives against Paris. My primary analytical reason was the strategic importance of the scarf to Islamic fundamentalists worldwide.

Abraham Lincoln, with his son Tad in tow, walked around Richmond, Virginia, one day 138 years ago, and if you try to retrace their steps today you won't see much that they saw, which shouldn't be a surprise, of course. The street grid is the same, though, and if you're in the right mood and know what to look for, the lineaments of the earlier city begin to surface, like the outline of a scuttled old scow rising through the shallows of a pond. Among the tangle of freeway interchanges and office buildings you'll come across an overgrown park or...

The eight crewmen of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will not lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse, a lawmaker said. Reports that the crew would be brought to the Statehouse drew criticism from business and civil rights leaders who said it would be disrespectful to have Confederates honored in the building.

A top California Republican endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor on Tuesday, stepping up pressure on the party's only other major candidate to drop out of the race. State Senate Republican leader Jim Brulte said he had concluded that his Senate colleague Tom McClintock could not win in a crowded field of replacement candidates hoping to take office should a recall against Governor Gray Davis on October 7 succeed.

During the Kennedy administration, the Republican minority in Congress introduced many bills to protect the constitutional rights of blacks, including a comprehensive new civil rights bill. In February 1963, to head off a return by most blacks to the party of Lincoln, Kennedy abruptly decided to submit to Congress a new civil rights bill. Hastily drafted in a single all-nighter, the Kennedy bill fell well short of what our Party had introduced into Congress the month before. Over the next several months, Democrat racists in Congress geared up for a protracted filibuster against the civil rights bill. The bill was...

Growing numbers of Evangelicals are trying to spread Christianity in Muslim lands. But is this what the world needs now? By David Van Biema Posted Sunday, June 22, 2003; 12:31 p.m. EST She wasn't a Muslim, but she would do for now. Last March, at just about the time American troops were massing outside Baghdad, she shuffled, dressed in a dark burqa, into a cramped schoolroom in the New York City borough of Queens. The class she was addressing was organized by the U.S. Center for World Mission and packed with eager evangelical Christian students wanting to learn how to...

Credit Where Credit Is Due: The Republicans Passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Michael Zak During the Kennedy administration, the Republican minority in Congress introduced many bills to protect the constitutional rights of blacks, including a comprehensive new civil rights bill. In February 1963, to head off a return by most blacks to the party of Lincoln, Kennedy abruptly decided to submit to Congress a new civil rights bill. Hastily drafted in a single all-nighter, the Kennedy bill fell well short of what our Party had introduced into Congress the month before. Over the next several months, Democrat racists...

D.C. Democratic Party Chairman Norman Neverson angered party officials when he told the Washington City Paper that he would have voted for the three-fifths compromise. That's the clause in the original Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for apportionment and taxation purposes. Neverson told party leaders Thursday night that he's resigning for the good of the party. He said again that he was speaking from the perspective of the framers of the Constitution, and that the remark was taken out of contest and misunderstood. Neverson said the Democratic Party needs to deal with issues such as school...

With allied troops in control of Iraq, many Muslims worry another invasion will soon follow, this time by U.S.-based Christian evangelists trying to spread their faith throughout the country. But the truth is that the missionaries' work has already begun.

Fellow FReepers know me, Michael Zak, as "Grand Old Partisan". My CPAC interview is the fifth one down, along with the link to http://www.republicanbasics.com/ -- the website for "Back to Basics for the Republican Party", the acclaimed history of the GOP from the Republican point of view.

Another card for the Republicans to play is for Vice President Cheney to assert a long-dormant power as President of the Senate. The last time this was done was by Vice President Nixon, who ordered the 1957 Civil Rights bill directly to the Senate floor, by-passing the Judiciary Committee. How do I know this? I wrote Back to Basics for the Republican Party http://www.republicanbasics.com/ The book is a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view.