Archive for May 2019
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Memorial Day Speech At Keene, New Hampshire — 1884
Below are the opening and concluding paragraphs from “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire”, a speech delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. at Keene, New Hampshire on Memorial Day, May 30, 1884. He spoke of the meaning of memorial day, 19 years after the end of the Civil War in which 620,000…
Read MoreVictor Davis Hanson Would Have Been A Great Trial Lawyer
Victor Davis Hanson is a classics scholar writing such books as A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, and The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost – From Ancient Greece to Iraq. He’s also a great contemporary political commentator. He most recently wrote The Case…
Read MoreWhy America Will Never Be A Socialist Country
In his state of the union address, with Pelosi scowling behind him, President Trump said, “America will never be a socialist country.” There are at least two ways he could have meant that America will never be a socialist county. One might be that he would not allow it become a socialist country. I don’t…
Read MoreCalling Court Houses “Justice Centers” Gives a False Impression of What Goes on There
It used to be that a court house was just a court house. The term court house identified the building where the county or Federal courts were to be found. Now they are called “Justice Centers.” What does that imply? That this is where “Justice” occurs? What occurs in the court house is supposed to…
Read MoreStrange and Irrational Thought In American Life
Anti-semitism in America has traditionally been absent because it is clearly a strange and irrational way of thinking. Judaism is a 4,000 year old religion from which Christianity came. All Christian bibles include the Old Testament. America is supposedly the best country on earth for Jews, the one country where Jews have been most welcomed…
Read MoreGeorge Kelling R.I.P.
George Kelling (1935-2019) founded the “Broken Windows policing” theory, along with James Q. Wilson (1931-2012). Kelling was an American criminologist, and professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Kelling died May 15th last at age 83. Heather MacDonald has a great obituary on George Kelling at City Journal which recounts much of…
Read MoreRace Relations in America Have Improved Under Trump
When Barack Obama won the 2008 election it was due to a whole lot of white people believing that if America elected a Black president nobody could call them racist anymore. So a whole lot of white people voted for Trump in 2008 thinking we’d finally be done with all the screeching about racism. A…
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Read MoreYou can have your own “white privilege” without being white
The following quote is from the Ace of Spades blog, The Morning Rant by OregonMuse for May 20, 2019. It’s brilliant and offers a great deal of wisdom. Progressives love to use the phrase white privilege to signify some sort of unfair advantage given to white people. There’s no such thing. White people have to…
Read MoreMy Version of the Green New Deal
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Read MoreClimate Change Lost Down Under — UPDATED
Yesterday was the day climate change lost in Australia’s national election. All the polls showed Australia’s Labor Party under the leadership of Bill Shorten to be the favorite to win. Over a 100,00 Aussies were polled and Labor came out on top every time. The Liberal Party, led by Scott Morrison was supposed to lose…
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