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Violating the Lieber Code: The March From the Sea

On April 24, 1863—just three months after the cruel and retaliatory Emancipation Proclamation–Lincoln issued an order drafted by Columbia University law professor Francis Lieber that codified the generally accepted universal standards of warfare, particularly as it related to the lives and property of civilians. Among the actions it deemed to be criminal and prohibited were the “wanton devastation of a district,” “infliction of suffering” on civilians, “murder of private citizens,” “unnecessary or revengeful destruction of life,” and “all wanton violence…all robbery, all pillage or sacking…all rape, wounding, maiming, or killing.”

It is true that it also provided, in its articles 14 and 15, a slippery provision called “military necessity,” under which “destruction…of armed enemies” and of “other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable” was completely permissible, and allowed “the appropriation of whatever an enemy’s country affords” by the conquering army. But it is clear that the overall intent of the Code was to rein in atrocities by the Union Army, particularly toward civilians.

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StemExpress CEO admits selling beating baby hearts, intact baby heads in Daleiden hearing

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The CEO of StemExpress admitted in court Thursday that her biotech company supplies beating fetal hearts and intact fetal heads to medical researchers.

She also admitted at the preliminary hearing of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress that the baby’s head could be procured attached to the baby’s body or “could be torn away.”

“That is an especially gruesome admission, but it begs the question: how did they get these fully intact human children?” says Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, which is representing Daleiden at the hearing.

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Athenian Democracy

 

Plato has described for us how democracy, after a time, degenerates into tyranny, and that the group most numerous and powerful is “the mass of the people . . . and possess very little. They come to the assembly to get their share of the loot: “their leaders deprive the rich of their property, give some to the masses, keeping most of it for themselves.”

James Madison held views typical of the American founders, writing that “democracies have even been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

Athenian Democracy

“The place to start a description of Athenian democracy is with a definition of the term. Developments in the modern world, however, make that a difficult task, for the word has become debased and almost meaningless.

Few modern states will admit to being anything but democratic. States as different as the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, Switzerland, Cuba, South Africa and Nigeria all assert they are democracies. That is confusing enough, but there are further complications.

Many people today would insist that to qualify as a democracy a state must offer full constitutional and political protections and opportunities to all who have legal permanent residence within its borders and desire citizenship.

But the Athenians limited the right to vote, hold office, and serve on juries to adult males who were citizens. Slaves, resident aliens, women, and male citizens under the age of twenty were denied these privileges. It is useful to remember that what has been called Jacksonian democracy in America co-existed with slavery, that women everywhere were denied the right to vote until this century, and that we continue to limit political participation to those of a specified age.

[No] contemporary Greek doubted that Athens was a democracy . . . The Athenians, on the other hand, would have been astonished at the claims of modern states to that title, even such states as the United States and Great Britain, for to them an essential feature of democracy was the direct and full sovereignty of the majority of citizens.

Government by elected representatives, checks and balances, separation of powers, appointment to important offices, unelected bureaucracies, terms for elective office of more than one year – all these would have seemed clear and deadly enemies of what reasonable people might understand as democracy.”

(Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy: The Triumph of Vision in Leadership, Donald Kagan, Touchstone Books, 1991, excerpts pp. 48-49)

Philippine Bishops Praise Supreme Court Rejection of Same-Sex Marriage

 

The Catholic bishops of the Philippines have praised a Supreme Court ruling this week rejecting a controversial petition seeking to legalize same-sex marriage.

In a unanimous September 3 decision, the Supreme Court of the Philippines dismissed a landmark petition to legalize same-sex marriage in the majority Catholic country.

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UT prof tells students El Paso Republican mayor is a 'white supremacist'

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During an event meant to help University of Texas-El Paso students heal from the trauma of the El Paso Walmart shooting in August, a professor suggested that the Republican El Paso mayor was a “white supremacist” because he called the shooter “evil.”

The university held a “Trauma, Resilience & Resistance” conference in late August, which promised to address “feelings of sadness and frustration” and introduce “ways for us to bounce back like the strong community that we are.” But video of the event shows one professor used the time to convince students that their lives are embroiled in unavoidable, systemic “white supremacy.”

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Driving Through Virginia, Part III

 

The Colonial Parkway connects Jamestowne and WIlliamsburg with the third leg of Virginia’s HIstoric Triangle-Yorktown.  The colonial period of history had its beginning at Jamestown, its maturity at Williamsburg, and approached its end at Yorktown.

The Colonial Parkway leaves Williamsburg and passes between the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Naval Supply Center on the York River on its way to Yorktown. Modern ships are supplied at these facilities, on the same waters where fleets maneuvered in Revolutionary times for control of Virginia.The Colonial Parkway limits commercial traffic and meanders through a more pastoral route, giving the visitor a view of the countryside more like that which the Colonials knew.  The feeling isn’t quite the same passing interstate signs for McChain burgers. . Another advantage of taking the Colonial Parkway is the opportunity to ‘pull off’ at several historic sites along the way and read about the settlers and events of local history.

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The Commanding Heights Of Hollywood Now Hate Dave Chappelle

 

On Wednesday’s episode of "The Ben Shapiro Show," Shapiro talks about Dave Chappelle's new "politically incorrect" Netflix special, "Sticks and Stones," and the Left's reaction. Video and partial transcript below:

 

So I don't know if you've seen Chappelle's new special, but it's insanely politically incorrect. I mean incredibly so. He mocks his own audience for being too woke. There's one point where he says, in the middle of the special, he says, "I'm going to do an imitation." And then he says, "'You tweeted something bad five years ago, and now I'm going to come after you and destroy your career.' Who am I?" And everybody thinks, oh, well, you know, that's the media. [But then] he says, "That's you. That's all of you."

 

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Teacher Removed From Classroom After Defending Pledge of Allegiance

Via David "And when the US dissolves into crime and outright chaos, because the people no longer believe America is  worth defending, these parents and school administrators will be crying out for police and soldiers... who will no longer exist in their communities because their kids don't BELIEVE enough to take on the mantle of sheepdog.

This is how Rome fell."

 

No one stood for the Pledge of Allegiance on the first day of Daniel Goodman’s class at First Coast High School in Jacksonville, Florida. And no one stood on the second day of class.

So on the third day Mr. Goodman wrote a message to his students on the whiteboard rebuking them for disrespecting the pledge.

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