Via John
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Save Lee Chapel
Via Billy
One of the true treasures of Washington and Lee's campus is under threat from the administration and it's time to fight back. In Lee Chapel (which it now calls University Chapel), all plaques and portraits have come down. A giant dividing wall is going up. The chapel is already stark and bare without its memorials to heroic students and historic portraits. Soon, it will be unrecognizable.
More @ Change.Org
A Red Wave? So What?
There is a vast political swell among some ill-informed conservatives that the great mid-term elections will come and a tide of goodness (spelled R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N) will sweep over the grand land, often puerilely referred to as “American exceptionalism,” for everyone.
Everyone but conservatives, however. Yes, that’s what I meant. Conservatives are republicans. Republicans are Republicans. They aren’t goodness or even good. They love lobbyists and their wars and printed money as much as their “loyal” opposition loves it. Conservatives are the few. Republicans and Democrats are the many.
They both live politically on the blood lust of “presentism” –look it up—but don’t reach for public teachers in any educational offering for it. Without it, the past is not, indeed, prologue.
Anyway,
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Monday, April 18, 2022
Mint Juleps & General Buckner: Repost 2012
Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
(foreground, holding camera),
photographed with Major General
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC,
on Okinawa.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Into the Valley of Death: A Relevant History of Crimea
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“…All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
——————-
“Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered.
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.”
Used to recite this to Bonnie and Christine. (Bonnie was scared as I read it)
Many are familiar with Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem that followed by a few days the newspaper reports of a military disaster for British forces at the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. It took place in Crimea, which is very much in the news today because of the present war between Russia and Ukraine.
The Crimean War from 1853 to 1856 was between the British Empire and its allies (principally France and the Ottoman Turks) and the Russian Empire. Crimea had been part of the Russian Empire since 1783. The Battle of Balaclava was part of the siege of Sevastopol, Russia’s principal naval base on the Black Sea.
More @ US Media Buzz
Fascism Comes to America And it wasn't Trump who imposed it.
Over the past few years the people of the United States have suffered the most egregious and sustained criminal actions committed against them by their own government officials in collaborations with private and public corporations. This is in absolute conflict with the rule of law and the constitution and it’s a violation of our rights to determine our own destiny. That these government officials and corporations have been successful in pointing the finger of blame at each of us when addressing others of us is just insult piled upon the injury they’ve committed.
More @ TL Davis
On This Easter: You Must WANT A War, America
Via 4Branch
There are plenty of people who study war. In the modern era none of them have actually fought one.
How many of you think you know how to fix a car? How many of you do fix your own car? I do; nobody has turned a wrench on any of my vehicles, other than myself, in about 20 years. I therefore probably know a bit about what I'm doing when it comes to fixing cars.
Would you listen to me if I had never actually turned a wrench on a vehicle, but allegedly knew what was wrong with yours?
That might be sort of stupid, right?
Welcome to today's political and military "strategists."
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2022 Elections and Immigration Issues: North Carolina
Here is a helpful response that gave an update for most Congressional Districts in North Carolina. Ask your Congressional candidates to contact NumbersUSA ASAP, if they have not done so or only partially completed the NumbersUSA survey
Immigration is a very important issue with many important aspects. Securing the border in absolutely necessary, but not near enough--see the list of major immigration issues below. Yet the immigration issue is the most dodged issue in political campaigns, including Republican primaries, where voters should not tolerate such dodging. Don't elect immigration weasels or tolerate debates where immigration issues are avoided.
Our immigration system has been thoroughly corrupt for many decades. Illegal immigration and excessive cheap-labor and chain legal immigration have badly hurt American workers, families, small businesses, taxpayers, public safety, and national security. Republican voters have had enough of lobbyist-funded soft immigration policies that result in excessive immigration, huge federal, state, and local spending, and more Democrats.
See below for the North Carolina update on immigration ratings and positions:
THANK you, Mike. Terrifically strong good points you are making. I might add that the ONLY way to have any confidence that a candidate will represent the well-being of his constituents re immigration is if he/she has completed the NumbersUSA survey, submitted the survey to Numbers, and has the results posted. Otherwise, it is all chit-chat. A REALLY good candidate will be awarded the title “True Reformer” from Numbers. For myself, I try to look over the True Reformers and help them if I can. In NC, the True Reformer candidates PLUS the incumbents who have an “A” grade are: Ted Budd (Senate); Sandy Smith (1st); Mahesh Ganorkar (2nd); Eric Earhart (3rd); Virginia Foxx (5th); David Rouzer and Max Beckwith (7th); Dan Bishop (8th); Patrick McHenry (10th); Madison Cawthorn and Michele Woodhouse (11th); and Jonathan Simpson (14th). These are all super-stars regarding immigration. I pray many/most/all prevail in the primaries! Thanks again for your extremely helpful efforts on this crucial issue, LG
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