Category: Political History
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Thursday Revolution: Yanks vs Frogs Open Thread
The French Revolution began twelve years after the American Revolution. America wanted to be independent and left alone to enjoy their liberty and managed to run the British back to their homeland. The French went berserk and within 18 months they started murdering their own citizens. It was the onset of a seemingly never ending…
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Tuesday Open Comments
Hmmmmmm…..can we narrow down the presidential field a bit? Not that she stands much of a chance of winning, but it would be instructional to make this point about her eligibility publicly and soon. I refer to the last paragraph about the whittling away of the Constitution because of the failure to adhere to its…
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Thursday’s History Isn’t Repeating, It’s Rhyming Open Comments
How appropriate, how exactly true these past weeks. “White Logic” and “Jew Physics” Campus radicals have refreshed an ugly 1930s trope. When we think of “Newspeak,” the fictional language invented by George Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984, we typically think of powerful authoritarian governments manipulating language for the advancement of power and ideology. In…