History, Holidays & Observances on December 1
Today: Advent Sunday, Lincoln & slavery, Stalin’s Great Purge, Rosa Parks, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III, David Ben Gurion, Christmas Music . . . AND MORE
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Tag: Martin Luther King
With school gun protests, Proggies make a mockery of civil disobedience
Civil Disobedience is powerful because those engaged it in willingly accept the penalties the law imposes. That’s not how Proggies play the game, though. About a year into my “career” as a blogger, the debate about the Solomon Amendment got me thinking about civil disobedience and the Proggie habit of
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Whatever happened to the idea that dignity is a virtue?
I’m too young to remember a time when dignity was considered a virtue, not only in individuals, but in entire groups. The other night, I was reminded of what I missed when I watched a 1944 U.S. Army Propaganda film, The Negro Soldier, which Frank Capra directed. The Army commissioned
Continue readingKim Davis: 21st century Civil Disobedience and the federal overthrow of the First Amendment
If you read the post caption and thought “Kim who?”, you haven’t been following the news lately. Kim Davis is the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who has chosen to go to jail rather than issue a marriage license to gay couples. She is being pilloried on the Left as an
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 5-9-15 — the “I’m not all here” edition
Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, despite the fact that I’ll be celebrating a family event this weekend, I can still feed my blog. If some shocking headline happens over the weekend, I probably won’t have a lot to say about it, but I can definitely keep you current
Continue readingMartin Luther King on the need for blacks to take responsibility
Yesterday, I had a rant: “Fine, we, the white collective, screwed you. We screwed you 200 years ago, and 100 years ago, and 50 years, and last week. We seem incapable of not screwing you. So why do you keep looking to us for help? Look to yourselves. Fix your
Continue readingProfessional race activists “demand” redistribution on behalf of American blacks
I admit that I am not a Reverend Martin Luther King scholar. As is the case for every American educated after 1970, though, I am reasonably conversant with his speeches and writings. My memory is that his crusade was one to remove barriers that society had placed in blacks’ way.
Continue readingMartin Luther King III rejects his father’s legacy by going to Washington to parrot the race hustlers
(This post originally appeared in slightly different form at Mr. Conservative.) Just because your father was a great man doesn’t mean you will be a great man. Exhibit A for this truism is Martin Luther King III, son of the great racial harmonizer, Martin Luther King Jr. Standing in Washington,
Continue readingThe Left transforms Civil Rights, so that it’s no longer freedom FROM government, but total control BY government
Civil rights are much discussed lately, primarily because Progressives with bully-pulpits are furious that Glenn Beck held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous civil rights rally at that same location. To hear them tell it, in the wake of the “Civil
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