Thursday, December 12, 2019
Thursday, March 20, 2014
LBJ: I'll have those ni**ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
Read the whole thing:
LBJ: I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. | Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com:
The problem with today’s Republican Party is that it has forgotten its own history and raison d’ etre: individual liberty. The Party must come to realize that GOP also stands for “Growth, Opportunity, Prosperity” and articulate how it stands, as its history and founding clearly demonstrate, for the individual pursuit of happiness as opposed to the progressive socialist (Democrat) lie of a collective guarantee of happiness.
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LBJ: I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. | Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com:
The problem with today’s Republican Party is that it has forgotten its own history and raison d’ etre: individual liberty. The Party must come to realize that GOP also stands for “Growth, Opportunity, Prosperity” and articulate how it stands, as its history and founding clearly demonstrate, for the individual pursuit of happiness as opposed to the progressive socialist (Democrat) lie of a collective guarantee of happiness.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
The Rise of Secular Religion
The Rise of Secular Religion - The American Interest:
Fascinating article:
Today’s American liberalism, it is often remarked, amounts to a
secular religion: it has its own sacred texts and taboos, Crusades and
Inquisitions. The political correctness that undergirds it, meanwhile,
can be traced back to the past century’s liberal Protestantism.
Conservatives, of course, routinely scoff that liberals’ ersatz religion
is inferior to the genuine article.
Joseph Bottum, by contrast, examines post-Protestant secular religion
with empathy, and contends that it gained force and staying power by
recasting the old Mainline Protestantism in the form of catechistic
worldly categories: anti-racism, anti-gender discrimination,
anti-inequality, and so forth. What sustains the heirs of the
now-defunct Protestant consensus, he concludes, is a sense of the
sacred, but one that seeks the security of personal salvation through
assuming the right stance on social and political issues. Precisely
because the new secular religion permeates into the pores of everyday
life, it sustains the certitude of salvation and a self-perpetuating
spiritual aura. Secularism has succeeded on religious terms. That is an
uncommon way of understanding the issue, and a powerful one.
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Fascinating article:
Today’s American liberalism, it is often remarked, amounts to a
secular religion: it has its own sacred texts and taboos, Crusades and
Inquisitions. The political correctness that undergirds it, meanwhile,
can be traced back to the past century’s liberal Protestantism.
Conservatives, of course, routinely scoff that liberals’ ersatz religion
is inferior to the genuine article.
Joseph Bottum, by contrast, examines post-Protestant secular religion
with empathy, and contends that it gained force and staying power by
recasting the old Mainline Protestantism in the form of catechistic
worldly categories: anti-racism, anti-gender discrimination,
anti-inequality, and so forth. What sustains the heirs of the
now-defunct Protestant consensus, he concludes, is a sense of the
sacred, but one that seeks the security of personal salvation through
assuming the right stance on social and political issues. Precisely
because the new secular religion permeates into the pores of everyday
life, it sustains the certitude of salvation and a self-perpetuating
spiritual aura. Secularism has succeeded on religious terms. That is an
uncommon way of understanding the issue, and a powerful one.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
How I Rediscovered Faith
Great article on the renewed understanding of the Spiritual nature of Christianity:
How I Rediscovered Faith | RELEVANT Magazine: "What I understand now is that I was one of those people who did not appreciate the weapons of the spirit. I have always been someone attracted to the quantifiable and the physical."
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How I Rediscovered Faith | RELEVANT Magazine: "What I understand now is that I was one of those people who did not appreciate the weapons of the spirit. I have always been someone attracted to the quantifiable and the physical."
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
How a Small Force of Finnish Ski Troops Fought Off a Massive Soviet Army
Great story:
How a Small Force of Finnish Ski Troops Fought Off a Massive Soviet Army — War is Boring — Medium:On Nov. 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland with more than 400,000 troops. The assault was almost three times larger than the Allied landing at Normandy. Soviet Leningrad, a city of five million, by itself contained more people than the entire country of Finland. As the world’s largest infantry force, the Red Army marched across the border with resolve. It looked like a decisive victory for Stalin.
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How a Small Force of Finnish Ski Troops Fought Off a Massive Soviet Army — War is Boring — Medium:On Nov. 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland with more than 400,000 troops. The assault was almost three times larger than the Allied landing at Normandy. Soviet Leningrad, a city of five million, by itself contained more people than the entire country of Finland. As the world’s largest infantry force, the Red Army marched across the border with resolve. It looked like a decisive victory for Stalin.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
The Women of the Reich: Wendy Lower’s “Hitler’s Furies” |
I did not know about this:
The Women of the Reich: Wendy Lower’s “Hitler’s Furies” |: Jewish survivors have consistently described German women in the Nazi East as violent tormenters, not innocent bystanders. Recounting horrific acts, however, proved far easier than naming the perpetrators. Often their names were never known by their victims, while others married after the war and changed their surnames. As for the women themselves, these witnesses, pillagers, tormenters, and murderesses kept quiet for reasons other than accountability; they had good memories of Germany’s seemingly limitless future, and their ambitious roles within it.
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The Women of the Reich: Wendy Lower’s “Hitler’s Furies” |: Jewish survivors have consistently described German women in the Nazi East as violent tormenters, not innocent bystanders. Recounting horrific acts, however, proved far easier than naming the perpetrators. Often their names were never known by their victims, while others married after the war and changed their surnames. As for the women themselves, these witnesses, pillagers, tormenters, and murderesses kept quiet for reasons other than accountability; they had good memories of Germany’s seemingly limitless future, and their ambitious roles within it.
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Juan Williams: Forget the War on Christmas …
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Juan Williams: Forget the War on Christmas … « Hot Air: Every year, we see the same cultural sniping about the expression of Christian faith during the Christmas season, ranging from the ridiculous to the, er, more ridiculous. The arguments are worth debating and the traditions worth defending, but they tend to obscure a more critical war — and one that is actually a war, Juan Williams argued this week:
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Juan Williams: Forget the War on Christmas … « Hot Air: Every year, we see the same cultural sniping about the expression of Christian faith during the Christmas season, ranging from the ridiculous to the, er, more ridiculous. The arguments are worth debating and the traditions worth defending, but they tend to obscure a more critical war — and one that is actually a war, Juan Williams argued this week:
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Calling attention to slaughter of white farmers in South Africa is racist
Race relations are not doing well under the Presidency of Jacob Zuma:
Calling attention to slaughter of white farmers in South Africa is racist | Liberty Unyielding: What the heck is going on in South Africa? South African President Jacob Zuma was booed by his own people at Nelson Mandela’s memorial and his translator was fake. The same translator, by the way, also did his weird mime when Zuma infamously sung “Shoot theBoer.”
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Calling attention to slaughter of white farmers in South Africa is racist | Liberty Unyielding: What the heck is going on in South Africa? South African President Jacob Zuma was booed by his own people at Nelson Mandela’s memorial and his translator was fake. The same translator, by the way, also did his weird mime when Zuma infamously sung “Shoot theBoer.”
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Teen who killed four people in drunk-driving accident gets probation due to … “affluenza”
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Teen who killed four people in drunk-driving accident gets probation due to … “affluenza” « Hot Air:I saw something about “affluenza” on Twitter yesterday and ignored it, assuming it was a portmanteau coined by Salon or Slate for an article about income inequality that the left had collectively decided was clever. Today I googled it and realized why people are talking about it. Friendly advice: If you’re planning on drinking tonight, go ahead and start before you watch the clips. Trust me.
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Teen who killed four people in drunk-driving accident gets probation due to … “affluenza” « Hot Air:I saw something about “affluenza” on Twitter yesterday and ignored it, assuming it was a portmanteau coined by Salon or Slate for an article about income inequality that the left had collectively decided was clever. Today I googled it and realized why people are talking about it. Friendly advice: If you’re planning on drinking tonight, go ahead and start before you watch the clips. Trust me.
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Sunday, December 01, 2013
Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus
Interesting:
Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus - Finance Post: "Critics of those who claim that man-made global warming is a serious threat to the planet and settled science frequently point to the fickleness of scientists on the issue, noting that in the 60s and 70s scientists were warning of just the opposite. It now appears the critic’s claims may have merit as a new consensus is beginning to once again return to the global cooling model."
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Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus - Finance Post: "Critics of those who claim that man-made global warming is a serious threat to the planet and settled science frequently point to the fickleness of scientists on the issue, noting that in the 60s and 70s scientists were warning of just the opposite. It now appears the critic’s claims may have merit as a new consensus is beginning to once again return to the global cooling model."
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II
Really cool:
Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II: "Originally shot by the War Department in gorgeous Kodachrome film, the saturated hues and crisp edges bring that era to life in a way that few other forms of media can."
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Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II: "Originally shot by the War Department in gorgeous Kodachrome film, the saturated hues and crisp edges bring that era to life in a way that few other forms of media can."
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
PJ Media » Obama’s Poll Panic
Great quite from Mark Steyn:
"So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands."
Obama’s Poll Panic:
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"So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands."
Obama’s Poll Panic:
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns
Islam: The religion of tolerance.
Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns - Telegraph: "Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a senior minister will warn on Friday.
Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi will say."
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Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns - Telegraph: "Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a senior minister will warn on Friday.
Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi will say."
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Obamacare Schadenfreudarama
Heh, yep:
Obamacare Schadenfreudarama | National Review Online: "If you can’t take some joy, some modicum of relief and mirth, in the unprecedentedly spectacular beclowning of the president, his administration, its enablers, and, to no small degree, liberalism itself, then you need to ask yourself why you’re following politics in the first place. Because, frankly, this has been one of the most enjoyable political moments of my lifetime. I wake up in the morning and rush to find my just-delivered newspaper with a joyful expectation of worsening news so intense, I feel like Morgan Freeman should be narrating my trek to the front lawn. Indeed, not since Dan Rather handcuffed himself to a fraudulent typewriter, hurled it into the abyss, and saw his career plummet like Ted Kennedy was behind the wheel have I enjoyed a story more."
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Obamacare Schadenfreudarama | National Review Online: "If you can’t take some joy, some modicum of relief and mirth, in the unprecedentedly spectacular beclowning of the president, his administration, its enablers, and, to no small degree, liberalism itself, then you need to ask yourself why you’re following politics in the first place. Because, frankly, this has been one of the most enjoyable political moments of my lifetime. I wake up in the morning and rush to find my just-delivered newspaper with a joyful expectation of worsening news so intense, I feel like Morgan Freeman should be narrating my trek to the front lawn. Indeed, not since Dan Rather handcuffed himself to a fraudulent typewriter, hurled it into the abyss, and saw his career plummet like Ted Kennedy was behind the wheel have I enjoyed a story more."
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
10 Tips to Avoid Speeding Tickets
Good article:
10 Tips to Avoid Speeding Tickets - Popular Mechanics: ""The motorist is a source of revenue," says Richard Diamond. And it's become his life's obsession to change that. "
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10 Tips to Avoid Speeding Tickets - Popular Mechanics: ""The motorist is a source of revenue," says Richard Diamond. And it's become his life's obsession to change that. "
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Friday, November 01, 2013
What to do after a defensive shooting
What to do if the unthinkable happens:
The most important article you will read: What to do after a defensive shooting | The Daily Caller: "Unknown caller – (Pause) – Silence on the phone…
911 Operator – “Hello, can you hear me?”… “This is 911, what’s your emergency?”
Unknown caller – Deep and labored breathing heard on the phone…
911 Operator – “Hello, do you need police, fire or ambulance?” “Hello!”
Unknown caller – “911… I… I just shot someone.”"
HT: Say Uncle
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The most important article you will read: What to do after a defensive shooting | The Daily Caller: "Unknown caller – (Pause) – Silence on the phone…
911 Operator – “Hello, can you hear me?”… “This is 911, what’s your emergency?”
Unknown caller – Deep and labored breathing heard on the phone…
911 Operator – “Hello, do you need police, fire or ambulance?” “Hello!”
Unknown caller – “911… I… I just shot someone.”"
HT: Say Uncle
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat
This is a really interesting article:
13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat - Business Insider: "Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense.
The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world both sick and fat."
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13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat - Business Insider: "Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense.
The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world both sick and fat."
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
More Good News: Already Sluggish Economy Is ‘Losing Steam’
Great:
The PJ Tatler » More Good News: Already Sluggish Economy Is ‘Losing Steam’: "U.S. manufacturing output barely rose in September and contracts to buy previously owned homes recorded their largest drop in nearly 3-1/2 years, the latest signs the economy’s momentum ebbed as the third quarter ended.
The reports on Monday showed economic activity was on weak footing even before a 16-day partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government early in October that is expected to weigh on fourth quarter growth."
The PJ Tatler » More Good News: Already Sluggish Economy Is ‘Losing Steam’: "U.S. manufacturing output barely rose in September and contracts to buy previously owned homes recorded their largest drop in nearly 3-1/2 years, the latest signs the economy’s momentum ebbed as the third quarter ended.
The reports on Monday showed economic activity was on weak footing even before a 16-day partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government early in October that is expected to weigh on fourth quarter growth."
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