Calhoun the Marxist?

Neo-conservatives can’t seem to make up their mind about the Confederacy. They all agree that the Confederacy represented everything evil about early America (which places them squarely in league with their intellectual brothers on the Left) but why they hate it presents the real conundrum.

It borders on schizophrenia.

Neo-conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson, for example, often rails against the Confederacy when issues involving “state’s rights” and secession come up. He opposes “sanctuary cities” as a vestige of the “New Confederates”, and blasts California secession as a rekindling of the Old South on the West Coast.

On the other hand, neo-conservative journalist John Daniel Davidson thinks that the Old South, the Confederacy, and John C. Calhoun wrote the blueprints for the modern bureaucratic, centralized state.

So which one is it? Is the Confederacy behind unwanted decentralization or unwanted centralization?
To these “intellectuals” it is just unwanted.

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Dien Bien Phu Vietnam: French Operation Castor 11-1953

Via Quan Nguyen Thanh

 

 With the Cross of Lorraine

 ENLARGED
 

MS-500 Criquet

Candidate to be first female Navy SEAL officer quits after a week

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If, by some miracle I got off the bus for SEAL training, my immediate question would be, where is the bell? ! :)

A women aiming to become the first female Navy SEAL officer quit about a week into the initial training, Task and Purpose reported Thursday.

The unidentified female candidate dropped out in early August during a three-week course in San Diego that began July 24. It was the first assessment of potential SEAL officers before they can be sent on to more grueling courses, according to the website, which cited "multiple Naval Special Warfare Command sources.

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Judge Jeanine: Why do we let them get away with it?

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Susan Collins: 60% less likely to vote for Collins in a primary due to her vote on Obamacare repeal

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has historically been very popular in Maine. She was reelected to the Senate in 2014 by the eye-popping margin of 37 points--the same election which saw conservative Republican Gov. Paul LePage only garner 48 percent of the same electorate. While she's not exactly popular on a national scale due to her centrist tendencies, Mainers seem to like her just fine--until now, maybe.

Although Collins isn't up for reelection to the Senate until 2020, there's been quite a bit of chatter that she may make a run for the Blaine House after Gov. Paul LePage is term-limited in 2018 and cannot run again. Collins previously ran for governor in 1994, losing to the now-Sen. Angus King (I-ME).

Given her relative popularity in Maine, one would think that she’d be a relative shoo-in for the position, but an interesting new poll is casting doubt on if she’d even make it past the primary.

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Climate Cooling, Warming, Change? Conference

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Man Snaps Photo Of Manhattan Skyline In 1956, With Crosses On Building For Easter

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Conservative Tribune has a great story with just one picture that shows the big difference between 1956 and today, in terms of reaction to public displays of Christianity.

From Conservative Tribune: 

These days, public displays of Christian faith are frowned upon. Heck, any Christian who makes a big deal about using “Merry Christmas” as opposed to “Happy Holidays” is subject to tut-tutting by the media.

It wasn’t always this way, though — and a photo from New York City in Easter of 1956 proves it.

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Tim Tebow Leaves On-Deck Circle To Greet Autistic Fan, Steps To Plate & Hits 3-Run HR

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NC Construction crew wrangles thief, ties him to scaffold until police arrive

Via Billy

A group of construction workers took matters into their own hands when dealing with an alleged thief Wednesday afternoon in uptown Charlotte.

The incident happened about 3:40 p.m. at 229 N. Church Street, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. A FOX 46 Charlotte viewer stumbled upon the scene and says the crew was working on the corner of Church Street and W. 6th Street when the man tried to break into one of their construction vehicles.

More with video @ Fox

Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system.

Via Billy

 

There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.

Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source—claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative.

More @ The Nation

The Shameful Blackout of ClarenceThomas, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell

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Clarence Thomas, one of nine members of the Supreme Court and the second black to ever join the Court, is not in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Asked to explain Thomas' absence, the chief spokeswoman for the Smithsonian said, "The museum's exhibitions are based on themes, not individuals."

Yet the museum plans to add a popular local D.C. television news broadcaster. The museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch, said the broadcaster "symbolized that it was really important that America was changing and his presence was a symbol of that change." And Thomas, raised in poverty to become only the second black to sit on the Supreme Court, is not "a symbol of that change"?

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Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes in 2013

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Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013.  The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.

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Fixing the Great Immigration Swindle: The Battle for Merit Based Immigration Reform

Via Mike

A September 2016 study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) opens with a statement that the U.S. economy profits $54.2 Billion annually from immigration. This is actually less than 0.3 percent of the $18.8 Trillion annual GDP. This top-line figure is enthusiastically reported by a national media that is largely ignorant of the economics and fiscal costs of immigration. The cheap-labor cartels that receive all the benefit are grateful for such enthusiastic reports as are the politicians who are funded by the cheap-labor cartels. Considering the vast importance of immigration issues to the country, far too few members of the U.S. Congress and state legislators have a good economic and fiscal understanding of immigration policy.

But celebrating only the top-line economic benefit to immigration is much like celebrating a $1.0 million widget sale, when the cost of acquiring or manufacturing those widgets was $1.5 million. It is also like falling for the fast-talking carnival pitch that buying three for the price of four is a great deal.

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Judicial Watch Victory: Federal Court Orders State Department to Conduct a Search of Benghazi Emails of Hillary Clinton’s Closest Advisors

 Via Billy

Judicial Watch announced that on August 8, 2017, D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department “to search the state.gov e-mail accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan,” former aides of Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. The State Department is ordered to search in those accounts “for records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] March 4, 2015, FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request.” (A separate Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit first broke open the Clinton email scandal.)

Judge Mehta described Judicial Watch’s Clinton Benghazi FOIA lawsuit as “a far cry from a typical FOIA case. Secretary Clinton used a private e-mail server, located in her home, to transmit and receive work-related communications during her tenure as Secretary of State.” Further:

[I]f an e-mail did not involve any state.gov user, the message would have passed through only the Secretary’s private server and, therefore, would be beyond the immediate reach of State. Because of this circumstance, unlike the ordinary case, State could not look solely to its own records systems to adequately respond to [Judicial Watch’s] demand.

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Murr v. Wisconsin: SCOTUS Further Complicates Property Rights Issues

 

The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution reads in part:

“No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

The Fourth Amendment states in part:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”

To our founders, a person’s private property consisted of his home and land, his material possessions, the work of his hands, the creative ideas of his mind, and his life itself.  One source for the foundation of these beliefs can be found in the Ten Commandments, four of which deal directly with these Natural Law Rights.  Prohibitions against bearing false witness, coveting, theft, and murder all validate the concept of personal property and protect the rights of property owners.   

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'It's theater of the absurd': Monument Avenue Commission's first public hearing borders on chaotic

Via Keith "My family was there.  No intelligent discourse from the anti monument side.  One thing was clear-there will be signs and the signs will paint a hateful view of the Confederate side of history."

So much for civility.

More than 500 people gathered Wednesday in the Virginia Historical Society auditorium for the contentious first public hearing of Mayor Levar Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission. The event, held with the intent to gather input on how best to add context to the Confederate statues lining Monument Avenue, bordered on chaotic as more than 40 speakers weighed in and tempers flared.

The standing-room-only crowd weathered a tense, two-hour hearing that saw members of the commission attempt in vain to keep the conversation civil as speakers offered opposing viewpoints.

Audience members, at points, heckled or shouted down some speakers with whom they disagreed.

More @ Richmond Times-Dispatch

Pentagon Unveils Plan For "Pre-Emptive Strike" & How would the US retaliate if North Korea attacked Guam?

Via Billy

Just hours after Trump made his famously heated vow to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea if provocations by the Kim regime continued, the US Air Force issued a very clear statement in which it explicitly said that it was "ready to fight tonight", launching an attack of B-1 bombers if so ordered:

“How we train is how we fight and the more we interface with our allies, the better prepared we are to fight tonight,” said a 37th EBS B-1 pilot. “The B-1 is a long-range bomber that is well-suited for the maritime domain and can meet the unique challenges of the Pacific.”

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How would the US retaliate if North Korea attacked Guam?

As I noted on Wednesday, Guam is well protected against a prospective North Korean ballistic missile assault. But what if an attack on Guam did occur?

In that scenario, while it's impossible to know how President Trump would respond, I believe the U.S. military would recommend retaliation at one of four levels.

First, in the event that a missile strike caused no or very few casualties (less than 5), the U.S. would likely employ measured retaliation. North Korean launch sites and missile units would be destroyed, but the regime's command and control facilities would probably be left alone. Neither would the U.S. be likely to target North Korea's leadership. Instead, the overriding intent would be the removal of the ballistic missile threat and the restored U.S. balance of power. If the North Koreans attempted to reconstitute their ballistic missile program, the U.S. would destroy it again.

What if a North Korean strike inflicted casualties beyond the low digits but not in the hundreds or thousands?

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Top Dem Arrested For Child Porn – Total Media BLACKOUT

Via Iver

There is something sick and twisted going on in the Democrat Party. Too many Democrats have been accused of pedophilia for it to be a coincidence.

Raymond Liddy, a Democrat and deputy Attorney General in California, has been charged in a San Diego federal court with possession of child pornography in his Coronado home, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Liddy is the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who served time in prison for helping to coordinate the burglary of the Democrat National Committee headquarters during the Watergate scandal.

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Guam Mayor:Trump Was Correct To Threaten A Furious Response +2

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Japan ready to protect Guam, defense minister says

country’s military could shoot down the missiles before they reach the U.S. territory.

 Missile from North Korea can reach Guam in 14 minutes

Student Fakes Being Black to Get Into Medical School Under Affirmative Action

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