San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said in a statement Friday he doesn’t want
any city workers to travel to North Carolina unless necessary in wake
of its legislation which blocks anti-discrimination for gay, lesbian and
transgender people.
“We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn
North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on
protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender individuals,” Lee said in the statement.
“Effective immediately, I am directing City
Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee
travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential
to public health and safety.”
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill this
week to void a Charlotte ordinance that would’ve provided protections
against discrimination in public accommodations.
Ben Ginsberg, a Republican elections lawyer who was involved in
rule-making process for the 2012 convention, said that Rule 40(b) isn’t
transferrable to the 2016 convention. Ginsberg explained to the
Washington Examiner that what was passed in 2012 applied only to 2012,
and that the 2016 convention must pass its own rule determining
nomination eligibilty.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus confirmed Ginsberg’s assessment on Sunday
during a television interview. “There will always be a perception
problem if people continue to miss — to not explain the process
properly. So, the 2012 rules committee writes the rules for the 2012
convention. The 2016 rules committee writes the rules for the 2016
convention,” he told CNN.
A man who tweeted about stopping a Muslim woman in the street
yesterday, challenging her to “explain Brussels”, and lambasted on
Twitter for his comments, has responded to the criticism today,
insisting he is not some ‘far right merchant’.
Matthew Doyle, partner at a south London-based talent & PR
agency, posted a tweet on Wednesday morning saying: “I confronted a
Muslim woman in Croydon yesterday. I asked her to explain Brussels. She
said ‘nothing to do with me’. A mealy mouthed reply.”
He was later arrested.
At some point, people figure out that posting a complaint on twitter
is the same as punching someone in the face so they will start doing the
latter. In fact, this man should have just punched the woman and walked
away. The chances of him being arrested would have been lower. That’s
how things are under an anarcho-tyranny. The cops only reach for the low
hanging fruit.
A European Union military force with power to intervene in member
states. A new “Marshall Plan” to radically redesign whole regions of
the world and impose regional government. A United Nations empowered to
manage it all. Christendom under siege. And the end of nationhood as it
is understood today. That
is where the “refugee crisis” is heading, as the engineered disaster
wreaks havoc across Europe and beyond. Despite the appearance of chaos,
though, it is all by design, with a series of radical goals in mind.
While the establishment’s demands on Europe to accept millions of Middle Eastern refugees have been couched in “humanitarian” rhetoric, the real agenda is nothing of the sort.
Rather than helping out their fellow human beings, globalist forces
actually created the refugee crisis and the suffering behind it. And
they are using it to advance multiple, related agendas — primarily
globalism and statism. That the crisis is being exploited to undermine
Western culture, national sovereignty, and even nationhood itself is now
beyond dispute. Top globalists are openly bragging about it.
“I will ask the governments to cooperate, to recognize that
sovereignty is an illusion — that sovereignty is an absolute illusion
that has to be put behind us,” declared former Goldman Sachs chairman
Peter Sutherland, an ex-member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee who
currently “serves” as the UN special representative of the
secretary-general for international migration. “The days of
hiding behind borders and fences are long gone. We have to work together
and cooperate together to make a better world. And that means taking on
some of the old shibboleths, taking on some of the old historic
memories and images of our own country and recognizing that we’re part
of humankind.”
On
this day in 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee makes Fort Stedman
his last attack of the war in a desperate attempt to break out of
Petersburg, Virginia. The attack failed, and within a week Lee was
evacuating his positions around Petersburg.
For nine months,
Petersburg was under siege by the Army of the Potomac and the overall
Union commander, General Ulysses S. Grant. The two great armies had
fought a bloody campaign in the spring of 1864, and then settled into
trenches that eventually stretched for50 miles around Petersburg and the
Confederate capital of Richmond. Lee could not win this war of
attrition, but his men held out through the winter of 1864 to 1865. Now,
Lee realized the growing Yankee army could overwhelm his diminishing
force when the spring brought better weather for an assault. He ordered
General John B. Gordon to find a weak point in the Federal defenses and
attack.
Gordon selected Fort Stedman, an earthen redoubt with a
moat and 9-foot walls. Although imposing, Gordon believed it offered the
greatest chance for success since it was located just 150 yards from
the Confederate lines–the narrowest gap along the entire front. Early in
the morning of March 25, some 11,000 Rebels hurled themselves at the
Union lines. They overwhelmed the surprised Yankeesat Fort Stedman and
captured 1,000 yards of trenches. After daylight, however, the
Confederate momentum waned. Gordon’s men took up defensive positions,
and Union reinforcements arrived to turn the tide.
The Rebels were
unable to hold the captured ground, andwere driven back to their
original position.
The Union lost around 1,000 men killed,
wounded, and captured, whileLee lost probably three times that number,
including some 1,500 captured during the retreat. Already outnumbered,
these loses were more than Lee’s army could bear. Lee wrote to
Confederate President Jefferson Davis that it would be impossible to
maintain the Petersburg line much longer. On March 29, Grant began his
offensive, and Petersburg fell on April 3. Two weeks after the Battle of
Fort Stedman, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court
House,Virginia.
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53rd North Carolina, Fort Mahone/ "Fort Damnation" Petersburg, Virginia
My great grandfather
and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as
they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort
Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees)
*Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made
the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's
line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight
northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back.
This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the
53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to
Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer,
one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture
of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they
accomplished their task and many years after the War my great
grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about
this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed.
A good analogy for the Trump campaign is the Battle of the Crater. The sappers (Trump haters on Left and Right) have burrowed below the mine to lay charges, and blow out a monster crater, only to send their own troops plunging into the firey crater that blew up and created for themselves, and get mowed down by the Confederates. Looking beyond that macro-picture of the Civil War, that day, the victory belonged to the Confederates who defeated the Unionists who sacrificed 3798 casualties to wound 1491 rebels.
If one is supposedly a "constitutionalist" and thinks Trump is less than to be desired for from a constitutional standpoint, look at it this way. . . the two-headed hydra in Washington, D.C. of Demorepublicucks don't check one another in any meaningful sense. They collaborate to pilfer resources from the people. They don't devolve authority and power back to its rightful fountainhead in the states and the people. If Trump gathers momentum from the grassroots, circumstance and history aligns him with "states rights" and the "Tea Party grassroots" regardless of how neocucks raise the specter of fascism and dictatorship in their sophomoric criticisms of him.
When founders like Madison writing as Publius spoke of constitutionalism he reminded us that parchment barriers don't suffice, and in Machiavellian terms, power must counter power. Right now we have no viable opposition. I can wax eloquent about piety to the Constitution and strict construction, but we have nothing but sentimentalism left for the dead hand of the past in the conservative movement. With the neocon / prog fox-guarding-the-henhouse theory of constitutionalism, tipping the scales on a 5-4 majority on the SCOTUS, now Scalia's death means the fate of liberty hands on a single Supreme Court nominee. Senator Mitch McCuck of Kentucky already started giving voice to entertaining Obama's nominee when the rest of the party was going to scuttle it. Trump represents the will to give life to Federalist No. 78 and kick the judiciary to the curb proving it's the weakest branch once more, and tip the scales back to the states, the people and a populist constitutionalism.
Samuel Francis is right in the trajectory of his "Nationalism, Old and New" article regardless of the moot specific. Small-r republicanism was the way to go once upon a time, but modernity dealt a blow to that movement and political philosophy, and now a Middle American nationalism is the insurgent strategy needed to topple the progs, and the chameleon neocons who were professing the need to get Hillary in over Donald Trump. If we rebuild American manufacturing, we rebuild the middle class political base, and make our last gasp for air, as we come back and stem the tide against the south of the border invasion.
We should admire the energetic primitiveness of the movement, and get our people in the Trump administration. The other thing is we don't need precision in intellectualism to win the day. We need power and momentum. . . it doesn't matter about debates like free trade and protectionism. . . one could make a case for economies of scale, division of labor, and all of that BS, but the reality is we're stuck with DEATH AND TAXES. Justice John Marshall famously said "the power to tax is the power to destroy." If we have to pay freaking taxes whether we like it or not, why not end this consummate stupidity like Trump says, where our corporate income tax is the second highest in the western world, and our personal income taxes hit the middle class hardest in proportionate terms of their income, and shift some of it away to duties on imports? It gives the domestic economy breathing room and puts Americans back to work. Thomas Friedman can write all the eloquent treatises he wants about the The Lexus and the Olive Tree, but the reality is if we try what Trump proposes it has to better than the failed political economy of Bush and Obama. And the will to power is more courageous than my earlier "America is doomed" don't bother to "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic" "defeatism".
In one of the most honest and revealing discussions on the Obama
administration's anti-terrorism policies, former NSA and CIA director
Michael Hayden said some very surprising things on Wednesday.
Hayden was a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe discussing the
President’s trip to Cuba, the terror attack in Brussels, Belgium, and
the way the two issues had become interwoven. When Hayden was asked if
the President’s terse statement on the Brussels attack was a sign of
weakness or simply a messaging mistake, Hayden seemingly surprised
everyone with his direct commentary on what he believes was actually at
play.
I'm going to say something that is going to sound pretty
harsh, but I think it’s true. That wasn't a mistake, that wasn't
weakness, that was policy.
His going to the ballpark and spending less than a minute
commenting on the attack. I actually believe, in his heart of hearts,
the president's policy is: That is not that big a deal.
There are other things that are more important, and that is what he messaging.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told an
audience today that illegal aliens are “not going away” and are “in
effect” US citizens.
And the DC elites wonder why Donald Trump is winning the Republican primary? The Washington Examiner reported:
The nation’s top immigration officer said that the “11
million” undocumented aliens in the United States are “not going away,”
are “in effect” citizens, and added that deporting the few the
administration wants out is unpleasant.
On
Friday, days after the deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgian
police shot and wounded a man carrying an explosives-laden suitcase. The
incident occurred in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek hours
after seven suspects were rounded up in connection with the terror
attacks.
“I can confirm a police operation targeting a person who
was intercepted by police and suffered a slight leg injury,” said
Schaerbeek Mayor Bernard Clerfayt, according to the New York Post.
Lyna Hadaad was watching from her window as police tried to apprehend the man.
