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Archive for History
Glenn Beck – 3/16/10
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.”
~ Winston Churchill ~
I’m thinking that those of us who are PRO-Constitutional Americans will be the ones teaching the ANTI’s a hard lesson in the not too distant future. Patriots V Tories. If you don’t get the reference, you’re education is sorely lacking, and you might want to do a little investigating. The lies just keep on coming. Past time to learn the TRUTH.
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
A Man Of Honor
February 22, 1732 ~ December 14, 1799
A Self-Made Man
Much has been written in recent years, condemning the Founders as rich, privileged, white men. They were certainly white, but that’s not a reason to condemn them. Many, but not all, were quite wealthy. But does anyone ever stop and ask themselves how they became that way?
George Washington, the very first president of these United States, was born into gentleman’s life, this is true. But if you dig deeper, when his father died, leaving the larger portion of his wealth to George’s older half brothers, he, his mother, and his 5 siblings to subsist on much less than what they had become accustomed.
While Washington did receive an education, he did not have the privilege of attending college, or learning foreign languages as did a good number of his peers. So, how did he become so smart? Where did his wisdom come from, if he didn’t have a college degree? He learned. Not through professors, but through family, books, and his own inquisitiveness. He worked hard, became a national hero, and had the express honor of being unanimously voted in as the very first President of the United States of America.
This is a man who should be honored and studied, honestly, in our schools. We should all remember, if it were not for men like this, there would be no United States. We would not have the liberties and freedoms we have now.
So, the next time you whine about old white rich men, remember George Washington, who DID put his life on the line. Could you, would you do the same for your freedom from tyranny? Open a book, read, learn, and think really hard about your answer.
R.I.P.
Former Presidential Adviser Haig Dies
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who served Republican presidents and ran for the office himself, has died.
The Haig family says he died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications associated with an infection. He was 85.
The four-star general served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. President Richard Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff in 1973. In that role, Haig helped the president prepare his impeachment defense and handled many of the day-to-day decisions normally made by the chief executive.
Haig later served as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan.
In the chaotic hours following the attempted assassination of Reagan in March 1981, Haig uttered what became his most famous statement.
“As of now, I am in control here, in the White House,” Haig said.
The remark misrepresented the line of presidential succession and it made it easier for critics to portray Haig as a usurper of power.
In 2001, Haig defended his remark.
“Everybody in that room was very familiar with the fact that this was not a discussion about transition, but rather authority within the executive branch,” he said.
Haig quit the Reagan Cabinet after a year-and-a-half — disgusted, he said, with bureaucratic infighting.
“You can’t have the State Department putting out one line and the Defense Department another line and the White House yet another line,” he told Fox News in 2002.
Nothing has changed! Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for serving our country. Prayers with the family
Give Me Partisanship!
Partisanship Is 100% American!
by J. D. Longstreet
The ignorance of today’s Americans about the way their country’s government was designed (By The Founders) to work is not only lamentable — it is dangerous!
If you are one of those Americans decrying partisanship in the US Congress and you are educated enough to read this article, then there is NO EXCUSE for your ignorance.
Vital Information…If You Value Your Freedom
If you did not watch Glenn’s show this afternoon, I would highly recommend you watch this now. Yes, ESPECIALLY those of you who call yourselves “progressive”, liberal, or claim to be ‘intellectual’. You see, we on the right, already knew the majority of what is covered in these videos. It’s quite obvious to us that you on the left, were totally clueless when it comes to the socialist/communist agenda. Please, pay attention!
Part 1 & 2
Part 3 & 4
Part 5 & 6
Part 7
Idiocy in Media
Newsweek’s Fineman: GOP Has ‘Terrible Record’ on Race; ‘Pretty Much Everybody’ Favors Dems
If you really want to get into a discussion of race relations and racial sensitivity, then the Republicans are going to lose. They don’t want to fight the battles politically here in Washington over the next few weeks or whenever on that basis, because they’re going to lose. They have a terrible record. Barack Obama got 96 percent of the African-American vote 2008. I was at the Republican convention in St. Paul. There were precious few African-Americans there, certainly not very visible. It’s not a big part of the Republican agenda. And fair-minded people are going to look at it and say, “Well, if you really want to have this discussion, well, then, the Republicans are going to lose whatever Harry Reid might have said to the guys who wrote that book.”
Read the rest here.
This clown is suppose to be a journalist? Really? Wow. How ignorant do you have to be not to look at facts before spewing your left wing BULLSH*T?
The Democrats are the most racist bunch of hacks I’ve ever seen in my life. Obviously, they don’t believe a black American is capable of achieving success on merit, so they must provide taxpayer funds to ‘make sure there is a level playing field’. They have made sure that generations of black Americans are dependent on the government for their sustenance. They have created a voter block that believes the government is suppose to take care of them, so the gimme mentality prevails.
On the other side of the issue, we have another group of people who don’t look at the color of a person’s skin, and automatically thinks they can’t succeed on their own. This group of people looks past color and takes in the character of an individual. When you provide the tools for success, and fail to use them, who’s failure is it? If you work hard to succeed, no matter your background, heritage, or race, then odds are, you will succeed. Will you have mansions, big cars, etc.? Well, if that’s what you call succeeding, then you have my sympathy. What a sad way to base success. If you provide for your family, have those things you need, instead of concentrating on what you want, you will always be a success.
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.”
Since public schools have stop teaching accurate history, lowered the bar, and generally indoctrinate to the Dem/lib/socialist way of thinking, or lack there of, it’s not really surprising when you read such an ignorant statement as that spewed by Fineman.
Are there racists in the GOP? Probably, even though I’ve never met any. I have, however, met plenty of Democrat racists. I did grow up in the South, after all.
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“After America, there is No Place else to go!”
by J.D. Longstreet
Recently, a friend sent me an article by Ms. Kitty Werthmann, which you will find below. As soon as I read it, I knew THIS was one I HAD to share with those of you who may not have seen it. Ms. Werthmann has issued a warning to all Americans based on personal experience. Americans would do well to heed her warning, especially with the Mid-Term Elections coming up in November.
Please take the few precious minutes necessary to read the article below. Then think about the wisdom this lady imparts by sharing the story of her days in the grip of a government flexing it’s totalitarian muscles. It is a grim reminder of the damage a bad mistake at the polls can do the people of a democratic country… such as the United States.
Our thanks to Ms. Werthmann for sharing her true, and very frightening, story with us.
J. D. Longstreet
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WAKE UP CALL TO AMERICAN CITIZENS….
The author of the following article, Kitty Werthmann, grew up in Austria and lived through the Hitler regime both before and after WWII, and the suppression of human rights and freedom by the Nazi Party. She moved to the USA and became a citizen in 1962. She is 83 years old and lives in Pierre, South Dakota where she has written and spoken extensively about the danger of loosing our freedoms. The following article is one of many that she has written. You can check out this info for yourself on the Internet by going to Google and searching for Kitty Werthmann.
Dumbing Down
AMERICANS DON’T KNOW nearly as much about U.S. history as they think they know. But their knowledge of popular culture is off the charts.
A new survey released this month by the nonprofit, nonpartisan American Revolution Center (ARC) of Philadelphia indicated that 80 percent of adult Americans (and 94 percent of those aged 18 to 49) were able to link the late pop star Michael Jackson to his signature songs “Beat It” and “Billie Jean.” But only slightly over half could identify James Madison as the Father of the U.S. Constitution.
Furthermore, even though “tea parties” have become a popular form of political dissent in recent months, only 12 percent could correctly identify the most important repercussion of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. That was the provoking of Parliament into enacting the Coercive Acts, which strengthened American resistance and led to convening of the First Continental Congress. Most respondents incorrectly answered on this multiple-choice test that the Tea Party resulted in repeal of the tax on tea.
Asked before taking the test to grade their historical knowledge, only 3 percent gave themselves an “F.” But 83 percent flunked, meaning they could not correctly answer more than 16 of the 27 questions.
Perhaps adults have forgotten some of the history they learned in school long ago. But the prospect of their children becoming a better-informed generation is not bright.
The study of traditional U.S. history has declined since the Vietnam era due to such divergent factors as a crowded curriculum, the spread of a separatist band of multiculturalism, and the governmental focus on testing reading and math skills to the exclusion of history and other essential elements of the liberal arts.
In the interest of reviving the discipline, organizations of the nation’s leading history scholars have repeatedly called on public school systems to require history teachers to have majored in history in college; however, no state teacher certification boards do so, and the best evidence is that relatively few history teachers have majored in history.
Read the rest here.
We have sunk to this sad state of affairs because no one was actually watching the hen house, and the fox has taken over. Perhaps if schools actually taught the REAL history of this country’s founding, we wouldn’t have so many ignorant people voting for those who would destroy her. For schools not to require a history major to teach history just boggles the mind. It seems that schools these days would prefer for our children to be ignorant, rather than informed.
Arbeit Macht Frei
Thieves steal Auschwitz’s ‘Arbeit macht frei’ entrance sign
A gang of thieves in Poland has stolen the infamous wrought iron sign announcing that “work sets you free” that spans the main gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The long, curving sign, reading “Arbeit macht frei”, was erected by the Nazis soon after the old Auschwitz barracks were converted into a labour and extermination centre in 1940. It was supposed to suggest that hard work would eventually allow inmates to walk free.
But, as Auschwitz was turned into a major hub for the Holocaust, murdering over a million people, the majority of them Jews, the sign became a mocking, cynical commentary.
A symbol of pure evil! One that should never be forgotten! What type of person would think stealing this ugliness was a good idea? I really hope they find these vermin, and the sign is restored. This is a part of history that should NEVER be a footnote. People really do need visuals when it come to the inhumanity of man!
Harry Reid – Clueless
Let’s take a look see at just how accurate Runnin’ Reid’s statement actually is, shall we? History is a funny thing, don’cha know.
Soon after the war ended, it was a Republican-controlled Congress that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution that, among other things, abolished slavery, guaranteed equal protection and due process and addressed blacks’ right to vote.
In the late 19th century, Democrat governors and Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the South couldn’t pass Jim Crow laws fast enough. Those Democrats created a nearly century-long, legal racial caste system that relegated blacks to the lowest educational, political, economic and social strata. I have family members who grew up under Jim Crow. To hear them tell it, it weren’t no joke. (source)
How about that Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the “Southern Bloc” of southern Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell: “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.” (source)
At one time there was such a thing as “Southern Democrats”:
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the American South. In the early 1800s, they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery Republicans (GOP) and the more liberal Northern Democrats. After losing control of their party and territory in the American Civil War, and during the Republican-led Reconstruction that followed, Southern Democrats regrouped into various vigilante organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. (source)
So, you see Mr Reid, it would be much wiser for you to check your history before you open your mouth, and project your own prejudices on others!
7 December 1941
Back when Americans stood strong against her enemies.
Unlike now, with an apologist and groveler, in the White House.
Free Market Trumps “Spread the Wealth”
We don’t need “new ideas”. We need to return to the old ideas of our Founders!
Giving Thanks for the Free Market
The Foundry
As millions of Americans spend today fervently practicing commerce, we bring you these thoughts faith, property and prosperity which first ran last year on Thanksgiving.
There is much talk these days of how conservatives need “new ideas” in these troubled economic times. And as we look at our nation’s troubled landscape, there is much work that needs to be done if we are going to return economic prosperity to the country. But as we sit down to celebrate Thanksgiving with our friends and family, recalling the true story of the Pilgrims should remind us all that the core principles that have made this nation great are unchanging, and that we risk ruin if we abandon them.
A Proclamation
Republic VS Democracy
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE,
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
Republic vs. Democracy
Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority
Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman’s inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Not only have we failed to keep it, most don’t even know what it is.
A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the Constitution). A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule). A Republic recognizes the inalienable rights of individuals while democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs (the public good).
Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the House, Senate, Executive (President or Governor), The Supreme Court, and individual jurors (jury-nullification). Lawmaking in our unlawful democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the whim of the majority as determined by polls and/or voter referendums. Voter referendums allow legislators to blame bad law on the people. A good example of democracy in action is a lynch mob.
Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury. To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority. As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive. When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy. They repeatedly and emphatically said that they had founded a Republic.
Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution “guarantees to every state in this union a Republican form of government”…. Conversely, the word Democracy is not mentioned even once in the Constitution. Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with these words,
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths…”,
“We may define a republic to be … a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.” James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Our military training manuals used to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.
DEMOCRACY:
- A government of the masses.
- Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression.
- Results in mobocracy.
- Attitude toward property is communistic–negating property rights.
- Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
- Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
REPUBLIC:
- Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
- Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
- A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
- Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
- Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
- Is the “standard form” of government throughout the world.
The manuals containing these definitions were ordered destroyed without explanation about the same time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight F.D.R., the most popular president this century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of this nation’s wealth, while convincing the people that it was for their own good. Many of F.D.R.’s policies were suggested by his right hand man, Harry Hopkins, who said,
“Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference”.
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Cool!
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
Video and slide show.
Whut? You thought the only thing I have an interest in is politics? Pfft! My interests are quite varied, and ancient history is just one of the many. 
