Now that we're in a new movement to ban the Confederate flag from computer games and old television shows, talk show host Mark Levin has jumped on the bandwagon, suggesting we ban the name "Democratic Party." Levin says this is because the Democratic Party has such a racist past.  It was the party of slavery, after all, the party who fought against Abraham Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves.  The Democratic Party was also the party of segregation for decades.  Former Senate majority leader Robert Byrd was an official in the Ku Klux Klan.  Hugo Black, FDR's appointment to the Supreme Court, was a lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan.  FDR himself locked up most of  our Japanese-American population in camps simply because of their ethnicity.  Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, signed a law making interracial marriage illegal, the army was segregated, and Wilson supported Jim Crow laws in the South. Democrat Bill Clinton praised...(Read Full Post)