Tuesday, January 30, 2018
On the Brink of War
A review of Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis, (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Shearer Davis Bowman presents a comprehensive view of the events leading to the secession of the southern states. Bowman (p. 12) explores “what Americans on the eve of the Civil War believe[d] about themselves and the world around them.”
One of the great strengths of the book is that Bowman includes perspectives from people from multiple backgrounds: northern and southern, famous and obscure, wealthy men and yeomen, men and women. The result is a fairly balanced and comprehensive narrative, not the usual morality tale of good northerners and bad southerners. Bowman notes (p. 64) that historian Robert Cook observed that white Iowans “had little affection for slavery, but even less for black people themselves.”
Bowman argues that this applies to white northerners in general. Bowman cites Edward L. Ayers’ comparative study of Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in which Ayers observes that “despite the high-flying rhetoric about justice,” neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party “displayed any sympathy toward their black neighbors.”
Bowman explains the blundering generation thesis (p. 30), when he writes that:
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Five Immigration Facts Americans Should Hear About in Tonight’s State of the Union Address
Via Mike
Tonight is President Trump’s first official State of the Union address. Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution mandates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Since Woodrow Wilson, presidents predominately use this speech to publicly share their vision on issues currently facing the nation. Tonight, Americans are likely to hear about a wide range of topics such as infrastructure, foreign policy, healthcare, and immigration.
Immigration is still one of the biggest issues that the United States faces, and frustration with the system under President Obama was a primary reason why Donald Trump was elected president.
Therefore, it makes sense that it should be one of the primary focuses in his speech tonight.
While there are many things Trump could educate the American people about concerning immigration, here are five things people need to know about the state of the immigration system in America today:
Tonight is President Trump’s first official State of the Union address. Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution mandates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Since Woodrow Wilson, presidents predominately use this speech to publicly share their vision on issues currently facing the nation. Tonight, Americans are likely to hear about a wide range of topics such as infrastructure, foreign policy, healthcare, and immigration.
Immigration is still one of the biggest issues that the United States faces, and frustration with the system under President Obama was a primary reason why Donald Trump was elected president.
Therefore, it makes sense that it should be one of the primary focuses in his speech tonight.
While there are many things Trump could educate the American people about concerning immigration, here are five things people need to know about the state of the immigration system in America today:
More @ Immigration Reform
Trump Defends 2nd Amendment Against Piers Morgan: If Vegas Killer Had No Gun, ‘He Would Have a Bomb’
During an interview with MailOnline contributor Piers Morgan, President Trump defended the Second Amendment by suggesting that if the Las Vegas attacker had lacked a firearm he “would have a bomb.”
Trump’s defense of the Second Amendment on January 28 was part of his overarching contention that “sick people,” rather than guns, are the problem.
More @ Breitbart
Democrats panic over avalanche of good economic news
Democrats sound plain silly as they continue to attack the GOP tax cuts.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said at a recent town hall that $1,000 bonuses “wouldn’t go very far,” and they were taxable, so it wouldn’t really be $1,000 after all. Amazingly, she also said she hadn’t heard of any bonuses bigger than $1,000.
Is she really that out of touch? As Fox Business host Charles Payne noted in a tweet, Wasserman Schultz represents a district where the median household income is $50,000. Does she think her constituents wouldn’t welcome a $1,000 windfall?
More @ The Hill
Kristol:Just another neocon man
Reading Bill Kristol’s latest emasculated flail of a troll — the desperation, the manipulation, the intellectual dishonesty, the mind and word games, the cuddling with evil at NBC News — it all took me back to early 1985, to a guy I knew who ended up in prison.
More @ Breitbart
Agriculture chief Sonny Perdue is 'designated survivor' for Trump's State of the Union
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is the “designated survivor” for President Trump’s first State of the Union speech.
A
White House spokesman confirmed to The Hill that Perdue will not be
present for the address Tuesday night, instead spending it in a secure
location.
For every State of the Union or presidential
address to a joint session of Congress, a Cabinet member is chosen to
sit out as a precaution for an incident such as an attack on the
Capitol.
Perdue, a former GOP governor of Georgia, was tapped to lead the Department of Agriculture by Trump last January.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was the designated survivor for Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in 2017.
The secretary of Agriculture is ninth in the line of succession for the presidency.
SCV wins injunction against Memphis
Via Billy
Men,
We have achieved another great victory today, but the fight is not over.
In a Chancery Court ruling this afternoon in Nashville, the court ruled in favor of the SCV and granted the Restraining Order and Injunction against the city of Memphis and Memphis Greenspace in regard to the 3 stolen Confederate memorial statues.
With this ruling neither the city nor Greenspace can remove, sell, destroy, move, etc, or otherwise disturb the 3 statues and must maintain and safeguard them pending further legal action by the SCV.
Much more to come.
Thank you for your resolve and continued financial support.
Lee Millar
Forrest Camp 215
Fighting for Gen'l Forrest
We have achieved another great victory today, but the fight is not over.
In a Chancery Court ruling this afternoon in Nashville, the court ruled in favor of the SCV and granted the Restraining Order and Injunction against the city of Memphis and Memphis Greenspace in regard to the 3 stolen Confederate memorial statues.
With this ruling neither the city nor Greenspace can remove, sell, destroy, move, etc, or otherwise disturb the 3 statues and must maintain and safeguard them pending further legal action by the SCV.
Much more to come.
Thank you for your resolve and continued financial support.
Lee Millar
Forrest Camp 215
Fighting for Gen'l Forrest
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