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Data Point – African Slavery: Distribution
Today’s history seems to be that the US was founded on slavery and only slavery. No other reason. And when one talks to students nowadays, that’s the number one reason why the US is bad.
Hate Thanksgiving: what else would you expect from two generations being taught to hate America?
It is almost a week after Thanksgiving but these kinds of notions and mindsets didn’t arise from nothingness. If they weren’t handed down by their parents (rather doubtful, especially at a “Christian” college, methinks), it’s by our educational system that has taught this self-loathing of one’s own country.
Pilgrims, Indigenous Peoples, And Progressive Reprogramming on Thanksgiving
The rewriting of history is a constant process. One we abet by allowing the State to run an education monopoly. Re-Education camps whose propaganda hit the steroids on College Campuses. One of the most grievous offenses is their reinterpretation of Thanksgiving.
Notable Quote – We’re Screwed
“A generation that doesn’t know history has no past; and no future.”-Robert Heinlein (science fiction writer, author, speaker, and “source for” part of the GraniteGrok name)
Notable Quote – James Buchanan on Socialism
The socialist vision of politicized control-regulation of economic interaction has by no means been exorcised from the modern mind-set despite the evidence from reason or from history.
Prior to 9/11 I Did Not Give a Damn About Politics – What the Hell Happened?
September 11th, 2001, was one of those days when people ask you where you were. I know where I was, but that is less important than where my mind was and where it went. I had questions. The pursuit of answers led me to where I am today.
ICYMI – Right Wing Staffers are Building Social Media Dossiers on Left-Wing Reporters
The media does this thing where they get some intern to scour your internet history for two words placed in the wrong order. Proof you are a [bigot, racist, xenophobe, etc.] which then becomes breaking news. The media can now expect similar treatment.
Patriots… Give Back the Name and the Colors
The New England Patriots haven’t been able to make time to visit the White House since winning the Super Bowl. It does not look like they will so anytime soon. My guess is they will not fit it in their busy schedule at all. But since February they haven’t been able to find a half … Read more
Palate Cleanser – for a few of us, a stroll down memory lane
I recognized a lot of these phones – I owned a few of them. Now, most of the cell phones easily far exceed the capabilities of my early desktop and laptops. (H/T: LIKE COOL)
Democracy
Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Indeed, America’s founders viewed it with suspicion and probably fear as they hemmed ours in on every side, lest the country fall into mob rule. But what is Democracy? Rules of political … Read more
Free Speech… Not Unless We Support and Protect It
Opposition to freedom is as old as time. Historically freedom is the exception, not the norm. Here in America, we institutionalized freedom in our first amendment. Allen C. Guelzo, in his article “Free Speech and Its Present Crisis,” explored the trials and tribulations associated with the First Amendment. Historical Attacks on our freedom… Noteworthy among … Read more
The 2nd Amendment is the Most Important Women’s Rights Issue in Modern History
For decades, women have fought to gain the same rights as men in the name of ‘equality.’ The right to vote, to get paid equally (yes, the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1964 and yes, women earn equal pay) and to be treated equally, are all issues that women have fought for and won. … Read more
Socialism in Denmark
Socialism has failed across the world everywhere it has been tried. From the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to China, Vietnam, North Korea and, most recently, Venezuela. So forget those power mad Marxists who got it wrong. Denmark is the socialist model to follow. Denmark is the Disneyland of socialism. It is where everybody is … Read more
Before the Welfare State
Democrats, socialists like AOC and Bernie and others in their party, are content to sit amidst the bounty provided by capitalism, in a comfortable hall, before a crowd of paid ticket holders tearing into capitalism. They call the system that has raised 80% of the globe from extreme poverty since 1980 “irredeemable” while ranting against … Read more
Thanks, Progressive Democrats – you’re making his words come true
I decided to review the comments that Steve alluded to on the “not a word but just a socially awkward boffin and a topless SJW” 2014 Top post because, well, because I can – it amused me. And this popped up: Which didn’t amuse me at all because of what it has become. No, Joe … Read more
It’s what the Left does – normalize what used to be taboo to accept their even worse
Comparisons, comparisons. First, go back and read this. Remember, the media ‘fessed up to “normalizing” homosexuality.
Now this: Bernie Sanders Says Liberals Are Turning the “Radical” into the “Mainstream.”
And now this: Drag queen superheroes show — ‘Super Drags’ — coming to Netflix: ‘They’re going to save the world’
So, normalizing Socialism and Communism. Now add to that which used to be considered to be depraved behavior – and we Normals aren’t to say a thing or be labeled RACISTs or HOMOPHOBES, or DEPLORABLES or IRREDEEMABLES (did I forget the word BIGOT! ?). Stigma – a word that has had its meaning pretty much neutered. Depravity is in, church going and traditionally moral people out. Fun-cations (complements of unemployment – trust me, it ain’t) in, hard work out. Responsibility is out, blaming others is in. America bashing in, pro-America out; you get the picture (and I keep coming back to this over and over because it does seem that the America I grew up in is being deliberately and methodically destroyed.
So when all what used to be praised and held to be of value, what happens?
We Stand at One of the Major Turning Points of History…
A notable qote: “We stand at one of the major turning points of history. Two powerful forces for regression threaten to drag us into a dark past. On the one hand, Islamists want to bring back the subjugation of women, female genital mutilation, sex slavery, beheadings, and dhimmitude for non-believers. On the other hand, their … Read more
So, another “win” for our government education?
Only when you consider the older man’s education (you know, when it actually taught actually history and actual civics and not this PC crap we see in the top panel). The South deemed their slaves to be property but wanted them also counted as people for representation. The North said – ok, if your slaves … Read more
Who Else Erases History?
The American left has manufactured another crisis and used it as an excuse to erase history. So who else does that? We also discuss the bureaucratic handmaidens of the central planners – the administrative state; must you cut off each limb or will you have more success if you starve them to death.