Ten Things You Don’t Know About Robert E. Lee

 .....“that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find a white man, you see everything around him improving.”

 The quote above from the main body of the piece below came from  Pampatike Farm
 (The quote took place as Lee was leaving his first cousin's farm, Pampatike, Manquin, Virginia after a visit. He was responding to a question as to whether he should use whites or blacks as laborers. The farm has been in the Townsend family for over 100 years, and is currently owned by my Cousin Frankie. http://www.pampatike.org/

I have always observed that wherever you find the Negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving."
to fellow Virginian Col. Thomas H. Carter, June, 1865

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To those Americans who revere him—sadly, a dwindling number these days—Robert E. Lee is still much a “Marble Man”: the noble face of the antebellum South, the tragic embodiment of the Lost Cause, the “perfect” man, as a contemporary deemed him. Even his admirers are unaware of the some of the more interesting details of the life of this very human hero. Here are ten facts about Robert E. Lee that you may not know…

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Flag Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Flag Day and What It Commemorates

 

Hey Brock,

Alex here with Ammo.com dropping you a note to remind you of the forgotten holiday, Flag Day.Take a read, learn a little, and share a lot :) LMK what you think and we'll talk soon!

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Flag Day was once called the “runty stepchild among American national holidays” by the New York Times. While it may not be the grandest of our country’s celebrations, it’s impossible to talk about Flag Day without briefly discussing why Old Glory was originally created, and what it means today.

We may know the flag as a strong symbol of patriotism, but at the time of the American Revolution, it had a much more pragmatic purpose: It existed to distinguish the American military forces from the British.

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Operation Dumb Down Society Complete

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Charlottesville Mayor Seeks To End Celebration Of Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday

 Via Billy

 

It doesn’t matter what you do — for your country, for your fellow man, whomever — if you also do something reprehensible or seen as reprehensible in the future, that’s it. You’re finished. Banned from history.

 Such is the fate of founding father and third president, Thomas Jefferson. Current social justice theology dictates that his contributions to this country, the Declaration of Independence — none of that matters because he also owned slaves at a time when it was legal to do so.

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Poison Ivy v Virgina Creeper

Jordan Peterson to launch new censorship-free social media platform

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 Caldron Pool

Canadian academic Jordan Peterson has announced he’s creating a new social media platform that’s entirely censorship-free.

Speaking with Joe Rogan last week, Peterson assured listeners that freedom will be the “central” aspect of the new platform saying, “once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of law.”

‘Thinkspot,’ as it’s been branded, will be designed to promote thought-through interactions through a minimum required length. Essentially, the opposite of Twitter’s 280 character maximum.
 
Peterson explained: “If minimum comment length is 50 words, you’re going to have to put a little thought into it. Even if you’re being a troll, you’ll be a quasi-witty troll.”

“Per the Joe Rogan podcast this week, I’m backing a new platform called Thinkspot, currently in Beta,” Peterson tweeted on Tuesday. “Get on the waitlist here, exciting announcements coming very soon. thinkspot.com”

Thinkspot is set to launch in August this year. Sooner or later there will be a mass conservative FACEXIT and TWEXIT. Many other alternatives have attempted to trigger the conservative exodus from Facebook and Twitter. Will Thinkspot succeed where others have failed?

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NC: N&R keeps unfairly blaming the NRA

 

 News & Record

Your June 4 editorial about mass shootings was thoughtful and, for once, you did not waste ink attacking the NRA. Treating mass shootings as a public health matter, rather than as a political matter, is an interesting idea. The AIDS “massacre” probably would have been mitigated had AIDS been treated as a public health problem rather than a political problem.

You took a positive step by not mentioning the killer’s name; I am convinced that many of these shootings are done for publicity, and the less you report these incidents the less power you give them in sick minds.

But then you turn around and run two ghastly anti-NRA cartoons on June 8. Cartoons such as these make responsible firearms owners such as me your opponent, not someone willing to work with you to stop these horrible events.

I challenge you: Write an editorial not of opinion but of facts, facts proving the NRA advocates, or that its members participate in, mass shootings. What is interesting is that you do not publish cartoons ridiculing alcoholic beverage brewers after fatal or nonfatal vehicle accidents.

Law Commentary Leftism Makes People Meaner: Reflections on the Torture of Paul Manafort

 

The sadistic treatment of Paul Manafort illustrates something I have believed since I attended graduate school in the 1970s and saw the behavior of left-wing students: Leftism makes people meaner.

There are kind and mean conservatives and kind and mean liberals. Neither liberalism nor conservatism makes people kinder or meaner. But this is not the case with leftism. With the handful of exceptions that accompany every generalization, leftism makes people meaner, even crueler.

Take the transfer of Manafort, the one-time Trump campaign manager, from a federal prison to New York’s Rikers Island prison. Rikers Island is universally regarded as a wretched place. As Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote:

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The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law

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Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas.
 
One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.

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