“Memory Foundations” – from Studio Daniel Liebeskind’s master site plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site
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Some perspective, please…
Posted in Art, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero Mosque, Terror, World Trade Center
A sounding…
Even a perfectly just man who wants to give advice to a tyrant has to present himself to his pupil as an utterly unscrupulous man. Leo Strauss, On Tyranny Thus, the voice of the Machiavellian – and the Sully-ite, too. …
Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier…
Posted in Books, Political Philosophy, Politics, US History Tagged with: Barack Obama, Conservatism, Declaration of Independence, Founders, John Locke, libertarianism, natural rights, Sarah Palin, Thomas Jefferson
NEW OLD IMAGES
Don’t usually say much about my movie poster biz, or about new images as I add them to the site gallery. Don’t plan on making a habit of the former, but think I probably should of the latter. So from…
Forgetting Wilson (Reply to Jonah Goldberg)
Much as I might enjoy debating the comparative progressivism of President Warren “Racial Amalgamation There Cannot Be” Harding; much as, armed by biography, I’m ready to stand up for Professor President Thomas Woodrow Wilson against the dextrosphere’s leading anti-intellectual intellectuals,…
Posted in Books, US History Tagged with: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Founders, Gordon Wood, Jonah Goldberg, Obama, Pestritto, Progressive Era, progressivism, Republican Party, RINO, Scott Galupo, Tea Party, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Yarbrough
raving cluelessly about eugenics…
…makes conservatives look backwards and unscientific, two brandings that conservatism should avoid because that turns off the youth, college-educated, and scientists and academe, all demographics the right is losing badly in. strangelet @ One Cancer Under God: On Defending Woodrow…
Here’s a quote from the German documentary The Architecture of Doom
“Defining Nazism in traditional political terms is difficult, mainly because its dynamic was fueled by something quite different from what we usually call politics. This driving force was, to a great degree, esthetic; its ambition was to beautify the world…
One Cancer Under God: On Defending Woodrow Wilson
If you’re going to excise the Wilsonian progressive cancer down to the last cell, as per Glenn Beck, then, when you’re done with your surgery, you may have less of the patient left over on the operating table than you’ve discarded as hazardous bio-waste.
Posted in Books, Featured, US History Tagged with: Espionage Act, Eugenics, Glenn Beck, John Milton Cooper Jr, Jonah Goldberg, New Freedom, Palmer Raids, progressivism, Racism, Red Scare, Sedition Act, Segregation, Woodrow Wilson, World War One
Light posting… some soundings…
…got some new material simmering… but I’ve been hiding in the library shelves the last week, otherwise trying to get some real world work done. Here’s a useful fragment for later use the next time we feel like discussing constitutionalism,…
CONTENTION OF THE DAY – National Poetry Month
Having been alerted by Barbara that April is National Poetry Month, I thank Joe NS for his extensive offering from T.S. Eliot. In an e-mail, I criticized him for subjecting us to so much gray space, or functional equivalent thereof,…
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