Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The left has been warring on Judaism and Christianity since socialism and the terrorist police state were born in the French Revolution. America took the opposite tack in the late 18th century, embracing the Western religious tradition undergirding the Enlightenment. We built our government on those traditions and became a
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The Revolution is in full swing. When will the insanity end? The death of George Floyd while under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, set off a round of riots, ostensibly in protest of police brutality. Whether Chauvin is lawfully responsible for Floyd’s death will be determined
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Major Events: French Revolution & Execution of Louis XVI Notable Events: USS Nautilus, Miss Sam, Khe Sanh, Thule Air Base Nuclear Incident, New Gingrich Ethics Ciolations, Pussy Hat March Born: Antonio Molinari, Adriaen van der Werff, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Peter De Wint, Moritz von Schwind, Stonewall Jackson, Felix Hoffmann, Jack Nicklaus
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The Battle of Trenton saves the Revolution, The 2nd Day of Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the Soviet Union dissolves, Boxing Day, the Beetles, the 2004 Tsunami, and more. . . Holidays & Observances on December 26 Today is the Second Day of the Twelve Days of Christmas The
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Today: Advent Sunday, Lincoln & slavery, Stalin’s Great Purge, Rosa Parks, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III, David Ben Gurion, Christmas Music . . . AND MORE
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In America, the term Right Wing is misused to imply that conservative Americans are fascists lusting for world domination; in fact, the opposite is true. Irrelevant intro: As my regular readers (to whom I am endlessly grateful) know, I was away from my blog for some time caring for a
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In this Bookworm Podcast, I examine how the term “Right Wing” is misused to imply that conservative Americans are fascists lusting for world domination. My latest podcast is up and running. You can listen to it through the audio embed below, or at LibSyn, or through Apple Podcasts. Also — and this
Continue readingA look at some of the history, holidays & observances on November 16 Holidays and Observances on November 16 Celebration of an icon of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, a near 400 year old artwork, Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, canonically crowned by the Church in 1927 as
Continue readingAn eclectic survey of this day in history Holidays On 10 November Birthday of the United States Marine Corps, established in 1775 at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Christian Feast of the Lübeck martyrs, three Catholic and one Lutheran Priest executed on this date in 1943 for their
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American conservatives, Trump included, by definition cannot be Right Wing, because their primary goal is to lessen government control over the individual. John Lott wrote an article challenging the media’s contention that the New Zealand mosque shooter is “right wing” and, naturally, tying that right-winged-ness to President Trump and his
Continue readingSocialism should be in the dust-bin of history. Instead, it is embraced by Democrats, many of whom have no understanding of it’s reality. The history of the world, since 1792, has been a competition to see which will win out — the Enlightenment ideals of the American Revolution, or the
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Today’s sexual “Reign of Terror” started in the 1960s, when the Left turned social mores on their heads — and it will get worse before it gets better. The original “Reign of Terror” occurred during the French Revolution, when socialism itself was fully birthed. It was a period during which
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America’s current ideological civil war replays two core ideas from the late 18th century: America’s Enlightenment liberty vs. France’s socialist tyranny. I am sure most readers of this blog are aware of the incident that occurred several weeks ago at Claremont MacKenna college, when progressive students — aided and abetted
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