I posted this squib on FB in answer to a discussion of the origin of America’s ongoing ideological crackdown via the media.
Every political regime (or tribal society) known to me imposes, whether consciously or not, its way of thinking on the populace.
Let us first and briefly consider several character portrayals before going on in the next stage to speak of the political dimensions. I’ll pass over our young hero, who is a somewhat more violent version than Scott’s most heroic characters and look at the variety of tough men portrayed: Chelmnitski, Bogun, Tugai Bey the Tartar chief, Zagloba and the Prince. Chelmnitsk is the pivot of the action. He is the soul of the rebellion and the personification of the Ukrainian Cossacks. The wrong he has suffered from the Polish elite–whose leaders he understands very well–have given him, at least in...
Enactment of plank #2 leads ineluctably to #3: Declare the 14th Amendment invalid. Forrest McDonald and Raul Berger (among other historians and scholars) have shown that the 14th Amendment was both passed illegally—a bare majority was deemed sufficient, the votes of Southern states were coerced, and new states were admitted in order to gain ratification—and misconstrued to cover a wide variety of privileges not anticipated (and specifically repudiated) by the authors, such as the rights to vote and hold office. Since the Amendment was never enacted legally, all court decisions and Federal laws based in conformity or in expansion of...
In a better world than this, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution would not have been necessary? Why? Because no honest lawyer or politician could have justified the Federal government’s arrogation of powers not enumerated in the document itself.
I used to laugh at snowbirds who let a little bad weather drive them out of their homes to the dismal housing tracts that have destroyed Florida, but I can no longer take it.
“Conservatives are waxing wroth over a New York City high school principal who sent anti-white racist materials to parents in which a scale of “whiteness was outlined ranging from Uncle Tom Whiteys labelled “White Abolitionists” to the downright evil “White Supremacists” by way of varying shades of collaboration or resistance to America’s entrenched racist regime.
Reverence for the Holy Name is the positive alternative to the Commandment against taking it in vain.
In selecting books to read, many people are content to employ The Random Walk method of my childhood, when I was set loose, without guidance, in a library to prowl on my own. This method has the advantage of finding hidden treasures, but it’s a bit like digging for gold, without any knowledge of what gold is and where it can be found, in a vacant lot. You’re more likely to find old soup cans, dog excrement, and sodden rotting copies of the shopper insert in the daily newspaper.
Thomas Campion was a great song-writer of the 16th and 17th centuries. Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine, Let well-turned words amaze With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights Sleep’s leaden spells remove. This time doth well dispense With lovers’ long discourse; Much speech hath some defense, Though beauty no remorse. All do not all things well; Some measures comely tread, Some knotted riddles tell, Some...
I pledge to my supporters that I shall do what I can to restore the vision of political order that inspired the drafters of the Constitution.
