This is such an amazing book.
I really need to read it again. I read it back in grad school, shortly after it came out in 1996. A phenomenal work of history.
At Amazon, Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Sebastian Gorka Responds to Attacks on His Credibility (VIDEO)
Gorka's a freakin' patriot.
Leftists have no credibility. All they have is character assassination, 24/7/365.
It's downright pathetic.
At Hannity's last night, and buy his book, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.
Leftists have no credibility. All they have is character assassination, 24/7/365.
It's downright pathetic.
At Hannity's last night, and buy his book, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.
Anonymous Spies Ousted Flynn. That's Deeply Worrying
Following-up from yesterday, "Trump Administration in Crisis."
From Damon Linker, at the Week:
From Damon Linker, at the Week:
The United States is much better off without Michael Flynn serving as national security adviser. But no one should be cheering the way he was brought down.Keep reading.
The whole episode is evidence of the precipitous and ongoing collapse of America's democratic institutions — not a sign of their resiliency. Flynn's ouster was a soft coup (or political assassination) engineered by anonymous intelligence community bureaucrats. The results might be salutary, but this isn't the way a liberal democracy is supposed to function.
Unelected intelligence analysts work for the president, not the other way around. Far too many Trump critics appear not to care that these intelligence agents leaked highly sensitive information to the press — mostly because Trump critics are pleased with the result. "Finally," they say, "someone took a stand to expose collusion between the Russians and a senior aide to the president!" It is indeed important that someone took such a stand. But it matters greatly who that someone is and how they take their stand. Members of the unelected, unaccountable intelligence community are not the right someone, especially when they target a senior aide to the president by leaking anonymously to newspapers the content of classified phone intercepts, where the unverified, unsubstantiated information can inflict politically fatal damage almost instantaneously...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Jackie Johnson's Storm Warning Forecast
Watch, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Partly cloudy Thursday with clouds increasing and showers expected Friday. Jackie Johnson reports."
Kate Upton Makes Cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017
Well, I guess those "diva demands" didn't cost her after all.
She's simply spectacular, and Sports Illustrated knows who's its money-maker:
She's simply spectacular, and Sports Illustrated knows who's its money-maker:
Kate Upton is 🔥 🔥 🔥 in #SISwim2017 https://t.co/wVRPR6wgPa pic.twitter.com/3BiiH3ecTa
— SI Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) February 15, 2017
Welcome back, Kate! 👙 😍 https://t.co/t0MikbwyWn pic.twitter.com/Xgp1rGK1Lh
— SI Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) February 15, 2017
Kate Upton tells all in her first interview as a three-time #SISwim cover model https://t.co/IhRtYe54SG pic.twitter.com/RpTMRuWZuF
— SI Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) February 15, 2017
OH hello Kate Upton! https://t.co/RaVyY5IjJH pic.twitter.com/oqTo6e6uK5
— SI Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) February 15, 2017
Caroline Glick, The Israeli Solution
President Trump is supposedly "backing off" the so-called "two-state solution" to the Middle East peace process.
We'll see, although this reminds me of Caroline Glick's book, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
We'll see, although this reminds me of Caroline Glick's book, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
I love this book.
I'm breaking out my copy today, in preparation for my lectures this week on the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention.
At Amazon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
More blogging tonight.
I'm breaking out my copy today, in preparation for my lectures this week on the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention.
At Amazon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
More blogging tonight.
New Guidelines Recommend Exercise, Over-the-Counter Medications for Back Pain
I'm picking up my walking regimen, hopefully to help with my own lower back pain, which is mostly from laying around in bed too much nights and weekends. I need to get out and walk, to work those muscles. It felt good on Sunday when I went for 90 minutes. I even got my heart rate up a little.
In any case, at USA Today, "Forget the drugs, the answer to back pain may be Tai chi, massage."
And here's Dr. Tara Narula, for CBS This Morning:
In any case, at USA Today, "Forget the drugs, the answer to back pain may be Tai chi, massage."
And here's Dr. Tara Narula, for CBS This Morning:
Trump Administration in Crisis
I normally wouldn't describe things as a "crisis," but one of the pieces I read yesterday noted that it wasn't just Michael Flynn. Democrats are out for blood. The leftist media is agitating and organizing to destroy the administration. It's a coup. Next on the chopping block is Kellyanne Conway. Then Reince Priebus. After that it's President Trump himself. Impeachment talk will escalate.
Of course, there's literally no evidence that U.S. security has been comprised. Leftists are just picking up where they left off during the transition. They're bringing back the "Russian card" to annihilate the newly sworn-in administration. They couldn't defeat the insurgent populist Trump in the election, so they'll use extra-electoral means. They're going to use extra-constitutional means, in fact, because the opposition to Trump is looking like an armed revolt. It's a rebellion. Street protests and anarchist violence are cheered by the progs in D.C. Campuses are the training grounds of the revolution. Far-left members of Congress demonize and delegitimize the elected government at every turn. Nancy Pelosi's Robespierre in a skirt.
Yesterday's Memeorandum thread was perhaps the longest series of articles on a single topic I've ever seen at the site. All alarmist too. Today's top headline is from the sensational yellow-journal rag, the New York Times, "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence."
See Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air, for more, "NYT: FBI probing Russian intel contacts with several Trump campaign officials."
And at Free Beacon, via Stephen Green at Instapundit, "SHADOW ADMINISTRATION: Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn."
Also, from Glenn Reynolds, "YEAH, THE FLYNN RESIGNATION’S AN EMBARRASSMENT, but Obama had his failed appointments, often tinged with scandal..."
More at CBS This Morning, "Report: Trump associates repeatedly contacted Russia before election," and "Trump had known "for weeks" Gen. Flynn had misled White House."
Of course, there's literally no evidence that U.S. security has been comprised. Leftists are just picking up where they left off during the transition. They're bringing back the "Russian card" to annihilate the newly sworn-in administration. They couldn't defeat the insurgent populist Trump in the election, so they'll use extra-electoral means. They're going to use extra-constitutional means, in fact, because the opposition to Trump is looking like an armed revolt. It's a rebellion. Street protests and anarchist violence are cheered by the progs in D.C. Campuses are the training grounds of the revolution. Far-left members of Congress demonize and delegitimize the elected government at every turn. Nancy Pelosi's Robespierre in a skirt.
Yesterday's Memeorandum thread was perhaps the longest series of articles on a single topic I've ever seen at the site. All alarmist too. Today's top headline is from the sensational yellow-journal rag, the New York Times, "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence."
See Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air, for more, "NYT: FBI probing Russian intel contacts with several Trump campaign officials."
And at Free Beacon, via Stephen Green at Instapundit, "SHADOW ADMINISTRATION: Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn."
Also, from Glenn Reynolds, "YEAH, THE FLYNN RESIGNATION’S AN EMBARRASSMENT, but Obama had his failed appointments, often tinged with scandal..."
More at CBS This Morning, "Report: Trump associates repeatedly contacted Russia before election," and "Trump had known "for weeks" Gen. Flynn had misled White House."
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Molly Haskell, Steven Spielberg
I suppose Steven Spielberg's a flaming leftist. I don't really know for sure. I do know that I'm inclined to forever cut him some slack, since he directed perhaps the greatest war movie of modern times, "Saving Private Ryan." What is more, "Band of Brothers" is perhaps the most important television miniseries every aired. I feel that strongly about these productions. The grit and realism of war, in both fiction and non-fiction portrayals, will be preserved for future generations. It's a monumental gift to history and memory.
In any case, at Amazon, Molly Haskell, Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films.
In any case, at Amazon, Molly Haskell, Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films.
Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: Stunning Display of Dishonesty From the Left (VIDEO)
O'Reilly's really pissed off in this one, heh.
He hammers the radical left's enormous lies on the Trump administration's alleged "illegal immigration deportation regime."
Following up, "Hysteria and Sensationalism Falsely Spread 'Immigration Crackdown' Rumors."
He hammers the radical left's enormous lies on the Trump administration's alleged "illegal immigration deportation regime."
Following up, "Hysteria and Sensationalism Falsely Spread 'Immigration Crackdown' Rumors."
The Case Against Contemporary Feminism
From Jia Tolentino, at the New Yorker.
And here's the subject Jessa Crispin, at Amazon, Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.
And here's the subject Jessa Crispin, at Amazon, Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.
Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice—and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.
Wrote about Jessa Crispin's WHY I AM NOT A FEMINIST, which I found wonderful, scathing & occasionally off its mark https://t.co/d2tabEwoZX— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) February 8, 2017
Identity Politics is Toxic, But it Works
From Noah Rothman, at Commentary, "The Triumph of Identity Politics":
The Triumph of Identity Politics - by @noahcrothman https://t.co/JWAZnzEAMp pic.twitter.com/LVt0ywlpqX— Commentary Magazine (@Commentary) February 13, 2017
How the two parties approached their respective presidential election cycle losses in this decade is revealing. While the GOP conducted its 2012 “autopsy” in the open and as a result of internal and external pressures, the Democratic Party is conducting a postmortem out of the spotlight. A weekend retreat for Democratic House members and a Monday Priorities USA gathering of progressive groups suggest the party is aware it needs to adapt. Yet even the notion that the party which won the popular vote needs to reform meets with incredulity and bitter resistance from the grassroots faithful. Surely, the admonitions of a Trump-era Democrat like Jim Webb, who on Sunday chided his lifelong party for pushing all its chips in on identity politics, will be similarly discarded by the liberal activist class. Webb’s detractors would have a point. Democrats did not lose in 2016 because they embraced identity politics; they lost because they embraced the wrong sort of identity politics.Keep reading.
In a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Virginia Senator Webb scolded his party for adopting a message that has been “shaped toward identity politics,” thus alienating a core and classic Democratic constituency. “The people who believe that, regardless of any of these identity segments, you need to have a voice in quarters of power for those that have no voice,” Webb added. “And we’ve lost that for the Democratic Party.”
“When you’ve lost white working people, you’ve lost flyover land,” the senator continued. Unquestionably, the Democratic Party and the liberal activists who provide it with animating energy at the grassroots level have embraced an exclusionary and contradictory sort of identity politics. For the most part, the nation’s majority demographic has come out on the losing end.
The Democratic Party’s is a kind of identity politics that views transgendered bathroom access as a civil rights imperative but sees infringements on the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act in service to ObamaCare’s birth control mandate as a necessary element of a critical public health initiative. It’s a kind of identity politics that scoffs at those who offer prayers for the victims of violence, and which rewards those who insist that “Blue Lives Matter isn’t a thing.” It is a kind of identity politics that, when a special needs man is abducted and tortured for being white in the Trump era or a self-described practitioner of Islam perform an act of mass violence in his or her faith’s name, refuses to make note of these realities for fear of handing out coveted victimhood status to the undeserving. Yet it is also an identity politics that extrapolates from almost every incident of violence committed by a male of majority extraction that America is in the midst of an epidemic of racially-tinged violence.
Some of this is real and tangible, and some of it can be dismissed as a problem of perception. All of this is divisive, poisonous, and dangerous. Republicans under Trump didn’t abandon this brand of exclusionary identity politics; they embraced them.
The rise of white identity politics didn’t occur in a vacuum. It was a reaction to the sense of alienation and isolation. This sense was a direct result of the perception among white voters that they were disliked and that their interests were threatened by opinion makers on the coasts...
Claire Lehmann: Why the Old Left Was Better (VIDEO)
She's a smart lady. I followed her on Twitter for a while, until she seemed to be too smart for her own good, heh.
Seriously, though, that's smart landing at the Rebel. Ezra Levant, the founder, is a Canadian national treasure.
Seriously, though, that's smart landing at the Rebel. Ezra Levant, the founder, is a Canadian national treasure.
Canadian Exceptionalism, American Envy
Sarah Kendzior's still raging her anti-Trump crusade, at Toronto's Globe and Mail:
When @JustinTrudeau met @realDonaldTrump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy https://t.co/w9h84JIUmQ @GlobeDebate #cdnpoli
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) February 14, 2017
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