Monday, December 4, 2017
The Causes of the “Civil War” in the Words of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
Via SHNV
“When [the states] entered into the Union of 1789, it was with the undeniable recognition of the power of the people to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of that government, whenever in their opinion, its functions were perverted and its ends defeated . . . the sovereign States here represented have seceded from that Union, and it is a gross abuse of language to denominate the act rebellion or revolution.”
–Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1861.
“That . . . the Union is perpetual [is] confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual . . . . It follows from these views that no State . . . can lawfully get out of the Union . . . and that acts . . . against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary . . .”
“When [the states] entered into the Union of 1789, it was with the undeniable recognition of the power of the people to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of that government, whenever in their opinion, its functions were perverted and its ends defeated . . . the sovereign States here represented have seceded from that Union, and it is a gross abuse of language to denominate the act rebellion or revolution.”
–Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1861.
“That . . . the Union is perpetual [is] confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual . . . . It follows from these views that no State . . . can lawfully get out of the Union . . . and that acts . . . against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary . . .”
More @ LRC
Some goodies from Ol' Remus
We are obviously insane.
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien with a long string of felony
convictions and multiple deportations, was acquitted in the killing of
Kate Steinle with a stolen handgun at a public venue. This is the
endpoint of Diversity, this is our future, where even criminally
depraved parasites walk from homicide with their victim status intact. Vox Day has more about immigration:
Every generation has a faction arguing that relaxing the rules can't possibly do any harm. The Founders were no exception; the fact that they were naive about immigration and failed to adequately protect their posterity from themselves does not change the fact that their original vision for the United States in no way approximated anything even remotely close to what we see today....
... The Founding Fathers didn't intend a single British ethnostate, but rather, a number of distinct British ethnostates as well as a few mixed white ethnostates. If you recall, they were rather favorably influenced by the historical Greek city-states. This is exactly why citizens of the USA should be praying for a reasonably peaceful breakup and non-violent ethnic cleansing instead of desperately trying to preserve the unsalvageable.
The quote for this week is from Richard Fernandez:
Daily Mail - Doomsday prepper in his 80s spent 30 years illegally
building a secret two-mile system of bunkers and cabins ... on state and
federal land . Other than that, nice work. DC Clothesline - Hillary Clinton: ‘If that f-ing bastard Trump wins, we all hang from nooses’
Paul Craig Roberts - Can’t You See War On The Horizon? ... having
convinced Russia that she is being set up for attack, Russia is
preparing for war
Daily Mail - Mexican man convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing
two Oregon women grins in court and tells their families he'll 'see you
in Hell' - as it emerges he'd already been deported twenty times before
... Oregon was America's first sanctuary state
Through a Lens Darkly
There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part of a butler in a play, the actor tends to regard it as a play about butlers. This manner of observing personages and events, both past and present is, of course, a sad fact of life within many levels of modern society. All too often, people today are inclined to view such things through a lens which shows them not as they actually are or were, but rather as the observer might wish them to be or have been. A prime example of this revisionist view is the current controversy over what the South actually represents today and what part it played in the shaping of America’s past.
A case in point for this distorted view of America’s past and present would be on the part of those who now choose to play the role of slavery’s victim. This can be clearly observed in an article which appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times by Jamil Smith, a black freelance journalist who had once served as an editor for the liberal New Republic. In his piece, “Doomed to Fight the Civil War Again,” Smith contends that people who defend any vestige the Confederacy today are guilty of upholding traitors. His argument is based on a White House press conference at which Press Secretary Sarah Sanders defended some remarks made by White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly about honoring the memory of Robert E. Lee and the events that actually brought about the War Between the States. However, in Smith’s opinion, all Kelly was doing was merely defending a slaveholder, as well as displaying his total ignorance of what should be properly deemed as the only true cause of the War . . . slavery.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
The Cause of the Great Calamity
The following are excerpts from a letter sent to Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward by Associate Chief Justice John A. Campbell on April 13, 1861. Seward repeatedly led Campbell and the Confederate commissioners to believe his government would peacefully resolve the issue at Fort Sumter. One concludes from the letter that Lincoln deceived his own Secretary as to his intentions at Fort Sumter and setting the war in motion – as well as sending Ward Lamon to Charleston to ascertain South Carolina’s defenses. Many Southern Unionists pleaded with Lincoln’s to disarm the crisis by simply removing federal troops from Sumter, and letting time heal the breach.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide
The Cause of the Great Calamity
“On the 15th of March [1861] I left with Judge Crawford, one of the [peace] commissioners of the Confederate States, a note in writing to the effect:
“I feel entire confidence that Fort Sumter will be evacuated in the next five days. This measure is felt as imposing great responsibility on the Administration. The substance of this statement I communicated to you the same evening by letter. Five days elapsed, and I called with a telegram from General [Pierre] Beauregard to the effect that Sumter was not evacuated, but that Major [Robert] Anderson was at work making repairs.
The 30th of March [1861] arrived, and at that time a telegram came from Governor [Francis] Pickens, inquiring concerning Colonel Lamon, whose visit to Charleston he supposed had a connection with the proposed evacuation of Fort Sumter . . .
On the first of April, I received from you the statement in writing: “I am satisfied the government will not undertake to supply For Sumter without giving notice to Governor Pickens.”
On April 7, I addressed to you a letter on the subject of alarm that the preparations by the government had created, and asked you if the assurances I had given were well-founded. In respect to Sumter your reply was: “Faith as to Sumter fully kept – wait and see.”
In this morning’s paper I read “an authorized messenger from President Lincoln informed Governor Pickens and General Beauregard that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force.”
This was on [April 8th], at Charleston, the day following your last assurance, and this is the last evidence of the full faith I was to “wait for and see!” . . .
The commissioners who received those communications conclude they have been abused . . . I think no candid man who will read over what I have written, and consider for a moment what is going on at Fort Sumter, but will agree that the equivocating conduct of the administration . . . is the proximate cause of the great calamity.
On April 4, 1861, President [Jefferson] Davis authorized General Beauregard to take any action he deemed necessary about Fort Sumter. Beauregard opened negotiations for the surrender of the Fort, and Major Anderson promised to evacuate within a few days.
Under the pretense of relieving a starving garrison, [Lincoln] sent an expedition . . . “of eleven vessels, with two-hundred and eighty-five guns, and twenty-five hundred men. They were scheduled to arrive at Charleston on the ninth of April, but did not arrive until several days later. The reason Lincoln’s [war initiation] scheme did not work was a tempest, which delayed his fleet.”
Jefferson Davis did everything in his power to prevent civil strife, and the South cannot be blamed for the most terrible Civil War the world has ever witnessed. It is true they did fire the first shot, but the question is, which party first indicated the purpose of hostility? Which made the fatal menace; or which drew, rather than which delivered, the fire at Fort Sumter?
If Jefferson Davis signed the order for the reduction of the Fort, Abraham Lincoln had, before, signed the order to reinforce it.”
(Jefferson Davis, Patriot, a Biography, 1808-1865, Eric Langhein, Vantage Press, 1962, excerpts pp. 54-57)
Congress Stalling Trump Ambassadors, Harming U.S. Effort to Combat N. Korea, Conduct Diplomacy
U.S. diplomatic efforts handicapped by congressional holdup
Trump administration insiders are becoming increasingly concerned that a congressional holdup of key ambassador posts is beginning to interfere with critical American foreign policy efforts, particularly those to rally the international community against North Korea and its contested nuclear program, according to Trump administration insiders and congressional officials familiar with the situation.Amid a global showdown over North Korea's repeated and increasingly dangerous nuclear tests, Republican leaders in the Senate have declined to hold a vote (Pray tell why?) on several of President Donald Trump's picks for U.S. ambassador, most notably Richard Grenell, the former U.S. spokesman at the United Nations who was tapped in September to serve as the next American ambassador to Germany.
More @ The Washington Free Beacon
Seven Myths About the GOP Tax Reform
MYTH #1: They’re cutting taxes on millionaires while raising them for the middle class and the poor.
FACT: Middle-income Americans are the biggest winners under the tax bill.
MYTH #2: Tax cuts will blow up the budget deficit.
FACT: Budget deficits depend on economic growth, not tax policy.
MYTH #3: Millions will lose health insurance.
FACT: Ending the Individual Mandate does not take insurance away from anyone or make insurance unaffordable.
MYTH #4: Social Security, Medicare, and the social safety-net will get defunded because we cut taxes.
FACT: Tax cuts do not mean any spending falls.
MYTH #5: The bill creates a tax break for private jets.
FACT: The bill simply codifies the existing taxes on jets.
MYTH #6: The bill takes money away from schools and teachers.
FACT: The Senate bill expands the deduction for teachers and increases funding for schools
MYTH #7: The bills will bankrupt graduate students and hurt people with college debt.
FACT: The higher standard deduction makes the student loan deduction irrelevant, and grad students will likely benefit from the change in the way tuition is charged.
Detailed explanation @ Breitbart
Bob Mueller ‘Has a Huge Conflict of Interest,’ Says Former Assistant FBI Director
The former assistant director of the FBI wonders who investigates the investigators in the wake of former Trump administration national security advisor Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
“Bob Mueller should have never been offered nor accepted the job as special counsel as he has a huge conflict of interest,” Jim Kallstrom tells Breitbart News. “He should have recused himself.”Not only do observers describe Mueller and the man he recommended to replace him as FBI director, James Comey, as close or even best friends, but the special counsel pursues an investigation heavily involving the bureau he once led. How one maintains detachment in leading a team that includes numerous anti-Trump partisans in a probe involving one’s close friend and the former bureau for which Mueller served as director goes unexplained.
Other problems Kallstrom sees include the means by which investigators obtained information and what constituted probable cause to obtain it.
“The Obama administration apparently, had the advantage of using electronic surveillance, collecting information on the Trump campaign,” Kallstrom explains. “That collection, in my view, may be found to be unlawful.”
More @ Breitbart
Donald Trump Shrinks Federal Monuments In Utah: ‘You Know Best How to Take Care of Your Land’
Breitbart
President Donald Trump used his authority under the Antiquities Act to shrink the size of two massive national monuments designated by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Trump returned the land back to the people of Utah.
“The families and communities of Utah know and love this land the best, and you know the best how to take care of your land,” Trump said during a visit to Utah. “You know how to protect it, and you know best how to conserve this land for many, many generations to come.”Trump took the unusual step of shrinking the amount of land protected by the Antiquities Act, despite an outcry from leftist environmental groups.
“I’ve come to Utah to take a very historic action to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens,” Trump said during the event, which included Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, as well as Governor Gary Herbert.
Obama designated 1.35 million acres of land to serve as the Bears Ears National Monument right before he left office in 2016. Clinton designated 1.9 million acres in Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante monument. Both monuments were reduced after Secretary Zinke conducted a study of both monuments.
The president reminded the audience that the Antiquites Act recquired a president to protect the “smallest necessary area” for conservation. He commented that previous administrations “severely abused” their powers under the Antiquities Act to lock up millions of acres of land and water under federal control.
“With the action I’m taking today, we will not only give back your voice over the use of this land, we will also restore your access and your enjoyment,” Trump said. “Public lands will once again be for public use.”
Supreme Court allows full Trump travel ban to take effect
Via Billy
The Supreme Court on Monday gave President Trump another
major win by granting his administration’s request to fully reinstate
the third version of his travel ban.
The 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals and a federal district court in Maryland had said the
president could only block nationals from the six majority Muslim
countries — Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad — if they lacked
a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.
The high court’s decision now puts those rulings on hold.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied the government’s request.
More @ The Hill
Alan Dershowitz: 'You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power'
Via Billy
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Monday said President Trump was within his rights as commander in chief when he fired former FBI director James Comey, and warned Democrats trying to take him down on obstruction of justice charges that they won't succeed.
"You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That's what Thomas Jefferson did, that's what Lincoln did, that's what Roosevelt did.
We have precedents that clearly establish that," Dershowitz told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" Monday morning.
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Monday said President Trump was within his rights as commander in chief when he fired former FBI director James Comey, and warned Democrats trying to take him down on obstruction of justice charges that they won't succeed.
"You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That's what Thomas Jefferson did, that's what Lincoln did, that's what Roosevelt did.
We have precedents that clearly establish that," Dershowitz told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" Monday morning.
More @ Washington Examiner
Another emerging White ethnostate: Franklin
Via Nancy
In addition to Ozarkia, the product of The ShieldWall Plan, and New Albion in upper New England, and the Northwest Front’s Pacific Northwest call, there is a seedbed White ethnostate organizing for the coming balkanization in the Appalachians, called The State of Franklin.
In addition to Ozarkia, the product of The ShieldWall Plan, and New Albion in upper New England, and the Northwest Front’s Pacific Northwest call, there is a seedbed White ethnostate organizing for the coming balkanization in the Appalachians, called The State of Franklin.
More @ The Roper Report
Vietnam: Douglas A-26 invader
Pilot Major James Sizemore was flying the aircraft the night the two airmen were shot down
Flags ordered to fly at half-mast as remains of two airmen killed in Vietnam war in 1969 are flown home for Arlington burial
Douglas A-26 invader, used through 1969 in Vietnam
*************************
Flags ordered to fly at half-mast as remains of two airmen killed in Vietnam war in 1969 are flown home for Arlington burial
Douglas A-26 invader, used through 1969 in Vietnam
*************************
Air Commando: Inside The Air Force Special Operations Command
Whilst approaching the base an engine fire forced the crew, Captain James McCleskey, pilot, and Captain Mike Scruggs, navigator, to bale out. Tragically the ... The pick-up of the first crew was to be the last successful rescue of an A-26A crew member for the remainder of the Nimrod's time in Southeast Asia.
(Mike flew 35 combat missions as a navigator in the A-26K fighter-bomber. On February 22, 1967, he was one of few to bail out of a burning.
propeller-driven A-26 attack bomber at night over enemy territory and
live to tell about it. He was hospitalized for five months. BT)
Amazon 4 1/2 stars.
In Lessons from the Vietnam War, Mike Scruggs offers a unique overview of America's military involvement in Southeast
Asia from 1960 to its tragic conclusion in 1975. A decorated Air Force
combat veteran, he lived through the hellish anti-aircraft
environment of low-level armed reconnaissance and attack missions over
the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Flynn’s Case Proves It’s Time to Fire Mueller
Via Billy
Petraeus, Obama’s CIA Director, lied to FBI agents about passing classified materials to his mistress. Despite being caught in the lie on a recording, he was never charged for it, as Flynn was. Instead he only pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information and received a slap on the wrist.
While Justice Department personnel had wanted to hold Petraeus accountable, the final decision was made by Attorney General Holder and FBI Director Comey. Lawyers for Petraeus insisted that he couldn’t be charged with lying to the FBI because DOJ guidelines recommend not charging “in situations in which a suspect, during an investigation, merely denies guilt in response to questioning by the government.” Petraeus admitted making false statements, but was never charged over them.
That’s what makes Flynn’s case so striking.
General Petraeus lied about committing a crime. His mishandling of classified information was a serious issue. And yet he was never charged for it.
Petraeus, Obama’s CIA Director, lied to FBI agents about passing classified materials to his mistress. Despite being caught in the lie on a recording, he was never charged for it, as Flynn was. Instead he only pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information and received a slap on the wrist.
While Justice Department personnel had wanted to hold Petraeus accountable, the final decision was made by Attorney General Holder and FBI Director Comey. Lawyers for Petraeus insisted that he couldn’t be charged with lying to the FBI because DOJ guidelines recommend not charging “in situations in which a suspect, during an investigation, merely denies guilt in response to questioning by the government.” Petraeus admitted making false statements, but was never charged over them.
That’s what makes Flynn’s case so striking.
General Petraeus lied about committing a crime. His mishandling of classified information was a serious issue. And yet he was never charged for it.
More @ Front Page
After Steinle verdict, rep unveils bill to imprison officials who shelter illegal immigrants
A Republican congressman plans to introduce a bill Monday that would threaten huge fines and prison time for elected officials accused of sheltering illegal immigrant criminals from deportation, in the wake of the not-guilty verdict in the Kate Steinle murder trial.
Indiana Rep. Todd Rokita’s bill is
one of the most aggressive pieces of legislation to date aimed at
sanctuary city policies, going beyond the Justice Department’s threat to
cut off grants to those jurisdictions.
“Americans are dying because politicians sworn to uphold the law refuse to do so.”
More @ Fox
Acting ICE chief: Trump 'has done more for border security and public safety' than past 6 presidents
Via Billy
Thomas Homan, acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Monday that immigration enforcement is thriving under President Trump's leadership unlike any recent commander in chief.
"This president has done more for border security and public safety than any of the six presidents I've worked for. Just since his leadership in January, border crossings are at a 45-year low. Now that's not a coincidence. That's because this president has let the men and women of Border Patrol and ICE do their job," Homan told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
Thomas Homan, acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Monday that immigration enforcement is thriving under President Trump's leadership unlike any recent commander in chief.
"This president has done more for border security and public safety than any of the six presidents I've worked for. Just since his leadership in January, border crossings are at a 45-year low. Now that's not a coincidence. That's because this president has let the men and women of Border Patrol and ICE do their job," Homan told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
More @ Telegraph
Iran prepared for WAR: World on brink as tensions with Saudi Arabia reach breaking point
Via David "t's a shame they can't both lose. If it were them ALONE, go for it. But they'll drag in others; not just Israel, but the whole area."
The regions of Qatar, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon are also embroiled in the bitter conflict.
Relations between the Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and the Shia-dominated Iran have deteriorated recently due to the ongoing civil war in Yemen and the political crisis in Lebanon.
Tensions increased a few weeks ago between the two countries when Saudi Arabia accused Iran of being behind a ballistic missile attack on a Riyadh airport.
The regions of Qatar, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon are also embroiled in the bitter conflict.
Relations between the Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and the Shia-dominated Iran have deteriorated recently due to the ongoing civil war in Yemen and the political crisis in Lebanon.
Tensions increased a few weeks ago between the two countries when Saudi Arabia accused Iran of being behind a ballistic missile attack on a Riyadh airport.
More @ Express
Corey Lewandowski: Michael Flynn won't take down Trump
Via Billy
President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Monday said he does not expect former national security adviser Michael Flynn to turn on President Trump even though he has agreed to cooperate with the investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie if Flynn may take Trump down in an attempt to get a better deal.
"I don't think so and let me tell you why," Lewandowski said. "Michael Flynn came to the campaign fairly late, actually Michael came after I left. ... What we know as it relates to the national security component and specifically, when it related to the transition, that entire component was segregated out. And the president and the campaign side really had nothing to do with the national security thing whatsoever."
President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Monday said he does not expect former national security adviser Michael Flynn to turn on President Trump even though he has agreed to cooperate with the investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie if Flynn may take Trump down in an attempt to get a better deal.
"I don't think so and let me tell you why," Lewandowski said. "Michael Flynn came to the campaign fairly late, actually Michael came after I left. ... What we know as it relates to the national security component and specifically, when it related to the transition, that entire component was segregated out. And the president and the campaign side really had nothing to do with the national security thing whatsoever."
More @ Washington Examiner
Trump endorses Roy Moore: 'We need his vote' in Senate
Via Billy
President Trump on Monday tweeted support for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, ending a weeks-long refusal by the White House to explicitly endorse the judge.
"Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!" Trump tweeted Monday morning.
"Putting Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Puppet Jones into office in Alabama would hurt our great Republican Agenda of low taxes, tough on crime, strong on military and borders...& so much more," he said in a separate tweet. "Look at your 401-ks since Election. Highest Stock Market EVER! Jobs are roaring back!"
President Trump on Monday tweeted support for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, ending a weeks-long refusal by the White House to explicitly endorse the judge.
"Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!" Trump tweeted Monday morning.
"Putting Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Puppet Jones into office in Alabama would hurt our great Republican Agenda of low taxes, tough on crime, strong on military and borders...& so much more," he said in a separate tweet. "Look at your 401-ks since Election. Highest Stock Market EVER! Jobs are roaring back!"
More @ Washington Examiner