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The link is a terrific and timely essay.
It is much too long for the likes of Gator and Billzy, but I would encourage you to read it.
The Spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books went to press this past May. It remains relevant and timely in every respect I can think of. However, it is especially timely in this context. Looking back on the last year, I think, the CRB commissioned and published Christopher Caldwell’s review/essay
“There goes Robert E. Lee.” Caldwell’s essay concludes:
One of the great contemporary delusions is to assume that, when rioters tear down a statue of Thomas Jefferson or demand that an Abraham Lincoln school be renamed, they are demonstrating their historical ignorance, and have somehow “got the wrong guy.” Oh, no. They reject the idea that the Civil War was fought between a morally pure North and a morally irredeemable South. In this they have a point. The war was indeed fought between two sections that had each tolerated slavery to varying degrees, and finally faced an irreconcilable difference over whether any part of that institution could be tolerated. But there has been a shift in our understanding of what this means. Whereas earlier Americans understood slavery primarily as a problem of liberty, today’s Americans understand it primarily as a problem of race. It seemed for several generations that the end of slavery had removed the only obstacle to honoring both sides of the Civil War. But in the newest generation, the persistence of American racial prejudice can be a reason to honor neither.
Although there may have been ambivalence about the war’s origins, there was none in its resolution. “In the course of three and a half years,” wrote the British military historian Spenser Wilkinson a century ago, “the resistance of the Confederacy was crushed, its cause lost, and every interest and principle that had been invoked in its behalf abandoned for ever.” Abandoned forever is right. Whether they were erected in that spirit or not, Confederate statues, road names, and ceremonies today betoken the settlement of the constitutional and moral question from which the Civil War arose—not the reopening of it.
“Human nature will not change,” Lincoln said shortly after his re-election in 1864. “In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to avenge.” That is the spirit in which Americans have tended to remember, and should remember, Robert E. Lee, one of the bravest and most principled among them, even if his bravery is of the sort they cannot always match and his principles of the sort they cannot always honor.
Caldwell’s long essay makes for a timely and educational weekend read.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/there-goes-robert-e-lee/
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Embarrassing.................
Harris lambasted for remark on rural voters' ability to cast ballots (msn.com)
Election laws requiring voters to include a copy of identification with their ballots threaten to shut out those who might not have access to a photocopier, Harris said Friday.
"I don't think that we should underestimate what that could mean, because in some people's mind, that means, well, you're going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove that you are who you are," Harris said on BET when asked about voter identification laws being a means of compromising with Republicans.
"There are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't — there's no Kinko's, there's no Office Max near them," Harris said. "People have to understand that when we're talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are. Of course, people have to prove who they are, but not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are."
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Insane.
https://www.outkick.com/hurricane-elsa-florida-cdc/
Among its top priorities, which includes “Prepare for a hurricane,” the CDC strongly advised that the people of Florida get vaccinated to stave off the peril of an oncoming hurricane — ahead of steps such as “Get emergency supplies,” or “protect older adults.”
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48 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Still a coward...
Still a petulant child.
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Huh, gosh, golly, gee, the gunman’s veteran status was not key or in any way related to his shooting of officers monitoring a peaceful protest in Dallas.
Seems NPR has left out a few important details …
Referring to the gunman as a veteran and deliberately leaving out some BIG details … typical.
Basically, all they’re really doing here is perpetuating the idea that veterans are dangerous while completely ignoring the reality of who the gunman REALLY was.
In deciding which pertinent details to include as context about the killer, I’d think his own stated motivation would come well before his veteran status.
Yep, they really went with “veteran” as the defining characteristic of a black supremacist racist who ambushed police and was specifically targeting white officers, killing five of them.
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55 minutes ago, BillStime said:
What was to follow after the delay in the vote? What was the purpose of storming the Capitol?
Why do you refuse to answer?
I don't.
Repeating yourself like that.
Really ?
I take it that you weren't corrected when you pounded on your high-chair to get what you wanted.
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38 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Your favorite project?
No response to the Lincoln Project article huh ?
What a surprise.
😂
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2 minutes ago, BillStime said:
I missed it - I can't keep up with everything you post from REDSTATE... post it again!
Post it again mommy.
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4 minutes ago, BillStime said:
When are you going to tell us what was supposed to happen during the insurrection after they delayed the vote?
Why are you avoiding this question?
I'm not avoiding anything...........you did it................you brow beat me into answering 😎
I gave you the answer in my hint upthread.
are you blind?
or just stupid ?
(trick question)
PS: I actually am torn between wether or not Billzy just could not understand my point or wether he just ignored the post
With him it could be either.
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Billzy having trouble with this one also.
I'm happy to help out the less fortunate.
exposed
/ikˈsplōdəd/
adjective
*not covered or hidden; visible.
"the venue featured beautiful hardwood floors and exposed brick walls"
*not sheltered or protected from the weather.
"some areas of exposed coastline could see gusts of wind of more than 80 mph"
*in a vulnerable position or situation.
"the army's exposed right flank was under attack"
None of these apply
😂 except of course..........in Blue-Anon Land
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Tide Turning Against CRT: How About Some Sanity for a Change?
Parents concerned about critical race theory indoctrination are now ‘QAnon’ according to NBC
This is actually good news, and Insanity Wrap will explain why momentarily:
First she told viewers that it wasn’t being taught in schools, because it was simply a concept for law school discourse. Then she said that parents who objected to it being taught in schools were merely the pawns of right-wing think tanks and funding groups, but her latest attack on those who oppose the pedagogy is that they are QAnon, Trump-supporting, white nationalist, evangelical Christians.
She told viewers on Wednesday’s The Reid Out, “that Republicans aren’t running an election, they are waging an all-out war for power that increasingly is based on and steeped in the Trump cult and even white nationalism.”
This is ugly stuff, equating criticism of CRT with paranoid conspiracy outfits or fringe racist groups.
But it is predictable because the Progressive Left’s case is so weak.
Propaganda in the USSR was similarly predictable.
Each year’s harvest was a record-breaking bounty over the previous year’s record-breaking bounty, even though food never got any easier to obtain.
Any dissenter was treasonous, an enemy of the state, or even institutionalized as crazy.
Every speech by the General Secretary of the Communist Party (aka, the Soviet strongman dictator) was worthy of Cicero. His every scribble put Virgil to shame. His every decision would have awed Justinian.
Governments and leaders confident in their systems don’t make such bold and easily refuted claims.
But the purpose of propaganda in an authoritarian state isn’t actually to propagandize the population: It’s to demoralize them.
Everybody reads and hears the same fake news. Everyone knows that it’s fake. But no one can speak up for fear that it is they alone who knows that all the news is fake.
If CRT is really so benign — if you can even get a Progressive to admit that it exists at all — then why do Party line “news” outlets like NBC resort to such Sovietesque attempts to discredit anyone speaking out against it?
You know the reason, gentle reader: Propaganda in the USSA is meant to demoralize would-be dissenters.
But it isn’t working.
From local school boards to state government across the country, parents and liberty-loving leaders are fighting back.
And they’re fighting effectively, too, judging by the over-the-top, Soviet-like response from the Democrat-Media Complex.
Keep it up.
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Meet the Unabashed ‘America First’ Republican Running to Unseat a Weak Sauce RINO in Washington
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fraud
noun
\ ˈfrȯd \
Definition of fraud
1a: DECEIT, TRICKERY specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right was accused of credit card fraud
b: an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : TRICK automobile insurance frauds
2a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTORHe claimed to be a licensed psychologist, but he turned out to be a fraud.also : one who defrauds : CHEAT
See:
Billstime
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This could have gone under so many threads; Liberal protests, Lefties are crazy, The Democrat cartel,
But let's be consistent.
Leftist Group Drapes “God Bless Abortions” Over 65 Foot Christ of Ozarks Statue – Plan on Selling T-Shirts with Same Message
by Jim Hoft
A far left activist group draped a “God bless abortions” sign over the 65-foot tall Christ of the Ozarks Statue in Eureka, Arkansas this week.The group is so proud of their stunt that they are selling T-shirts to commemorate the event.Today abortion is a rallying cry and a sacrament to the left. Via Indecline.The renegade Activist Art Collective, INDECLINE has unveiled its latest piece of protest art directly on top of the iconic 65 foot tall Christ of the Ozarks monument in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.The project, entitled “God Bless Abortions”,
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James O'Keefe Has Twitter on the Backfoot After Massive Legal Victory Against Them
by Brandon Morse
Back in April, Project Veritas CEO James O’Keefe brought a lawsuit against Twitter after the social media giant terminated his account over the excuse — without evidence — that he was running multiple fake accounts. Perhaps not so surprisingly, they did this as Project Veritas was exposing CNN’s technical director Charlie Chester. The lawsuit was filed in a New York state court, which Twitter immediately attempted to have transferred to a California federal court where the chances that the lawsuit would be dismissed are rather high… too high, in fact. In order to make that happen, Twitter’s lawyer, Amer Ahmed, attempted to make the case that O’Keefe
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2 hours ago, BillStime said:
Why do we have to sweep all the uncomfortable stuff under the table and pretend it didn’t happen…
We don't.
and we don't.
That's just the desperate response the Left has to people objecting to their changes to curriculum
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I was hoping that another poster would bring up the obvious, but I guess I will.
It is F'n hilarious that BillZtime is soooooo worked up, insisting that we "admit" that far right creeps disguised themselves as BLM, antifa members to start many of the massive riots around the U.S. last summer.
While at the same time, any conjecture that the Capitol rioters were not all they seemed to be is met by his "mighty" derision.
Hahahahahahaha.
He is so far down the rabbit hole...........
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OMG.
This the POTUS.
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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