I Love The South

I Love The South
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Indeed, I do!

Walter E. Williams: Liberals Confuse Me

"I don't believe that white liberals are racists in the sense that Klansmen and neo-Nazis are; however, their paternalistic and demeaning attitudes toward blacks are far more debilitating."

The Break Up Of The United States Of America

"The real point is not exactly how this breakup might happen. The point is that America is becoming increasing polarized between liberals and conservatives, religious and irreligious, law abiders and criminals, police and citizens, educators and parents, tax payers and deadbeats, control freaks and freedom lovers, perverts and non perverts etc. If this polarization of America continues to increase we will either have a union break up or we will soon be living under martial law."
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This article is two years old and right on.

Via Hamp, SWR

$PLC To Apologize To Prof. Guenter Lewy For False Accusations

"Prof. Lewy's attorney stated that there was a financial settlement, and that while he could not disclose the amount, Prof. Lewy was very happy. Additionally, SPLC will be printing the retraction on its website."


Via Rebellion

Maine Gov. Candidate: I'd Tell Obama To Go To Hell

Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage told a group of fishermen at a GOP forum that he won't be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell."

Custer Demands Surrender Of Longstreet

"Well," said Custer, "no matter about General Grant. We demand the surrender be made to us. If you do not do so, we will renew hostilities."

Reason To Homeschool #5,642

"I know, I know, this NRO reader's supposedly good suburban school is nothing like the good suburban school that your kids attend. Because your kid's school is, like, really good. All the teachers who work there tell you so."

ArmyJudge Tells LTC Lakin: Shut Up And Be Punished!

"We got absolutely slammed today," said Paul R. Jensen, lead counsel for the defense. "It's impossible for us to have a fair trial under these rulings."

Via Richard, SWR

Guédelon, A Castle In The Making

"We have no patrol units. There is no one on the streets. We respond to only crimes in progress. We don’t respond to property crimes."
-- Ashtabula County, Ohio Deputy Sheriff Ron Fenton, as quoted by Maclean’s, September 22, 2010
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"n the heart of Puisaye, in Yonne, Burgundy, a team of fifty people have taken on an extraordinary feat: to build a castle using the very same techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages."


Via Jason, BelleGrove

GF1 Field Test -16 Days In The Himalayas

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"For 16 days I lived with it strapped to me as I climbed through the valleys of central Nepal up to Annapurna Base Camp at 4,200 meters."