Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Declaration of Independence was published by the Second Continental Congress on this day in 1776. Their audiences were the American colonists, to justify our call to arms, and Britain’s enemies, to assure them of our intent. Thomas Jefferson’s preamble, with his famous proclamation that all people are equal before
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My Australian friend “Nodrog,” has been thinking about God’s role in a civilized world and, especially in America. Here’s what he has to say. The predicament of the US at the moment seems to be the best argument for a belief in God yet presented. I’ve gone right up to
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Feast of Archbishop Laud, Margaret Thatcher Day, Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, Norman invasion of Muslim Sicily, Standard Oil Co., Treaty of Versailles, United Nations, and more. Holidays and Observances on January 10 William Laud The Anglican Church celebrates a feast for Archbishop of Canterbury, William
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Today: The History of the Bill of Rights, Prohibition Ends, Battle of Nashville, the Holocaust in the Ukraine, Nero, Sitting Bull, Christmas Music And More . . . Holidays and Observances on Dec. 15 Bill of Rights Day – Today we celebrate the Bill of Rights becoming the law of
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Today: The Defeat of ISIS, The Dutch beat the English at Dungeness, 1st Notice of the Holocaust, Royals behaving badly, Christmas Music, . . . AND MORE
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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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Harvard prof. Joyce Chaplin’s tweet about the United State’s creation reveals that a Harvard history degree is an imprimatur of ignorance. My friend Wolf Howling isn’t near a computer, so I’m posting this for him: A degree from Harvard is useless at this point (and so is a degree from
Continue readingOne lesson of advertising is that, no matter whether true or false, to make a message stick, one must repeat, repeat, repeat. This is how false messages become enshrined into the ideological orthodoxy of the Left and ripple out to the collective consciousness of the masses. Now, there are many
Continue readingBruce McQuain, of the always thought-provoking and very economically libertarian QandO blog, has an interesting post that provides a good overview of just how many large natural gas resources there are in the U.S. and the world. http://www.qando.net/?p=10647 Add to that our vaste coal and oil resources… Folks,
Continue readingHere’s the article from an extremely Progressive San Francisco blog. Here’s my distillation: 1. Liberals truly care about freedom, because they protested their hearts out over the illegal U.S. war in Iraq. 2. For all that screaming against the evil U.S. government, American liberals really weren’t risking anything because, unlike
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU[/youtube] To the extent that this video may be the production of a pro-Muslim organization, it could also be seen as a boast, not a warning. Regardless of the intentions behind it, those of us who cherish a Judeo-Christian, Western civilization must sit up and take notice — although I’m
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