Author: Thomas Fleming

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Unmasking Lincoln, Part Three: Christophobe, Bigot, and Capitalist Stooge

Lincoln’s admirers have said that he was motivated by a commitment to equality and a respect for African American slaves.  The unpalatable truth is that  Lincoln’s racial attitudes are closer to those of the KKK than to those of the NAACP.  As early as 1837 Lincoln argued that “The Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states.”  His Emancipation Proclamation was a strictly political act designed to appeal to European liberals.  In fact, it only applied to slaves outside Lincoln’s jurisdiction, not to slaves held in...

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Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Classicists

The Society for Classical Studies condemns the relentless horror of police brutality and murder of black men, women, and children, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and Rodney King, to name just a few of the victims.

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Mark Levin, a True Conservative

What, it can’t be!  Mark Levin having something nice to say about Confederate war heroes?  Not at all.  What a relief, when he explained that the Democratic Party was the party of evil, the party of slavery, and thank the almighty for the Union heroes who crushed the Southern Democrats, whose children would go on to join the clan, impose Jim Crow, and Lynch completely innocent black  men.  

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UnMasking Lincoln, Part Two: Warfare From Hell

The greatest fact of Lincoln’s career is the war he imposed upon the nation, a conflict that changed the nature of war in the civilized world.  As one of Lincoln’s favorite generals observed, “war is hell,”  and it has been hell at least since General Sherman gave us the example of total war.

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Unmasking Lincoln, Part I

The modern American regime under which we live has only a few heroes, most of them entirely bogus: a pair of womanizing presidents–Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy–a philandering plagiarist who betrayed his country, Martin Luther King, jr.,  and the second founder of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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I Dreamed I Saw Paree Last Night…

The other night I had a long and tortuous Corona-inspired dream. I had finally managed to get out of Illinois and the good old USA. I was in Paris at some kind of event or function I had helped organize, but it was in a strange part of Paris that looked more like Chicago or Minneapolis. It was one of those boring “procedural” dreams where you find yourself in the wrong room and cannot seem to locate the correct floor, and when you do, your number is nowhere to be found. Miraculously, I got everything straightened out, and it was...