http://www.metafilter.com/tags/whig Posts tagged with 'whig' at MetaFilter. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:20:29 -0800 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:20:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77803/Have%2Da%2Dbreak <a href="http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m101402.htm#3">Mutton pie</a>. An <a href="http://www.gole.org.uk/kitkatclub.htm">Orange organisation</a>. A <a href="http://www.artfund.org/artwork/1531/portraits-of-members-of-the-kit-kat-club">portrait size</a>. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kat">delicious confection</a> Desired the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpU9wwflmNs">world over</a>. The true meat of this post – <a href="http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/datastreamDetail.aspx?PID=ksl:sheinn00&DSID=sheinn00.pdf&pageParam=SearchResults&q=inns">Inns and taverns of old London.</a> <small>[PDF]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77803 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:20:29 -0800 art bar cat club confectionary history kat kit kitcat kitkat orange painting protestant pub recipe whig tellurian http://www.metafilter.com/45902/The%2DNew%2DWhigs <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/16essay.html?pagewanted=all">Is the modern GOP a repackaging of the old Whig party?</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/16essay.html?ex=1287115200&en=badb8cd9b99cf40e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">archive link</a>)</small> <em>The blend of businessmen's aversion to government regulation, down-home cultural populism and Christian moralism that sustains today's Republican Party is a venerable if loosely knit philosophy of government dating back to long before the right-wing upsurge that prepared the way for Reagan's presidency. A few pundits and political insiders have likened the current Republicans to the formidable, corporate-financed political machine behind President William McKinley at the end of the 19th century. The admiration Karl Rove has expressed for the machine strengthens the historical connection.</em> Of course, the Whigs couldn't hold their disparate coalition together in the face of the slavery issue. What might undo the current disparate coalition in the GOP? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45902 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:16:12 -0800 GOP history political_parties whig caddis