Until now, the greatest expansion was under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal that our president-elect seems to be taking as his model. At the beginning of the 1930s total government take was about 12 cents from every dollar. By the beginning of the 1940s it more than doubled to 25 cents of every dollar.

Many would have you think that President-Elect Barack Obama is the first Black politician from Chicago to achieve a prominent place in our nation’s history. However, that esteemed honor is reserved for Oscar Stanton De Priest.

After the disastrous 2008 elections, where Republicans literally got their clocks cleaned by the Democrats in both state and national elections…Freedom’s Journal Magazine sat down with Mr. Blackwell to hear his heart concerning the state of the Republican Party and to explore his vision of reform (shareholders’ revolt as he calls it) that he would oversee as the next Republican Party Chairman.