WASHINGTON – First, the Democrats got clobbered in the election by the Republicans. Now they’re squaring off against each other in a civil war. This political Gettysburg pits the Democratic Party base against the Obama machine called Organizing for Action, or OFA, the community-organizing army left over from the former president’s election campaigns. How bitter is… (more…)

The endorsements for Congressman Keith Ellison, a leading candidate to take over the Democratic National Committee, continue to pour in. The president of the Baltimore City Council endorsed him. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., backs him. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has endorsed the Muslim congressman. And so has David Duke. The former member of the Louisiana House… (more…)

The College of William & Mary, the second oldest institution of higher learning in the country, was the alma mater of some of the most important figures in American history. Yet none of its distinguished alumni is as admired or influential as Thomas Jefferson, the country’s third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence.… (more…)