This post was originally on the Member Feed at Ricochet.com. I still urge my readers to check out Ricochet and join, to interact with some of the most congenial people you will ever know. My thanks to the author. [The following is adapted from the speech I will be making the first day of Rosh …
This weekend, I finished a book that, halfway through, I considered not finishing at all. The reason was that the protagonist was so disgusting and evil that she made me almost physically sick. I decided to just skim through the second half, just to see if she suffered the consequences of her depraved behavior. The …
It appears that Johns Hopkins University is making an effort to leaven the 100% Leftist slant of its faculty with some "conservative" additions (scare quotes mine, since this has been tried elsewhere and not succeeded). His list of courses is hilarious, and right on target. And, of course, there's a ZERO chance the university would …
Nelson was a member of what was known as the"First Families" of Virginia. Here are two different views of his story. Founding Father Thomas Nelson Jr. was born in 1738 in Yorktown to one of Virginia’s First Families. He grew up in all the trappings of wealth and prepared for taking his eventual place as …
This young man's hobby horse is human health, and how our conditions have changed with history. I'll bet you haven't looked at things quite this way before. Nasty, brutish and short. That is the phrase everyone reaches for to describe life before civilisation, and it may be one of the most successful pieces of propaganda …
For this lesser-known signer, I am reproducing two separate takes on his life. The first one is from the White House site where I have been getting my information on the other signers. The second one is from an X post that crossed my feed earlier today. Same guy, two different looks at his life …
I just learned today about Caesar Rodney. It seems that he had his own "Midnight Ride" for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Caesar Rodney was born October 7, 1728 on a sprawling farm in Kent County, Delaware. After losing his father in his youth, Rodney inherited wealth and responsibility that he used for …
Continue reading Lesser-known Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Caesar Rodney of Delaware
September 7, 2007 "You know what happened in Philadelphia in 1776 was a miracle. Divine inspiration had to have been there. The principles may be bigger than the men who wrote "em down, but they did write them, and they were not racists, and they were not bigots, whatever else the PC crowd teaches today... …
Continue reading Wisdom from Rush Limbaugh, on America’s Founding Principles
https://twitter.com/oldeworldorder/status/2059772523336634848?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Human nature never changes This ancient thought from Socrates seems very pertinent for today, doesn’t it?
Yesterday, patriotic Britons from around their country journeyed to London at the behest of the new party Restore Britain, and public figure Tommy Robinson. Crowd size estimates run from 200,000 to about 300,000. Opinions vary, but the huge crowd was very well-behaved, with no incidents of violence noted. Adults, pensioners, youth, and children attended, many …
Continue reading Unite The Kingdom Rally in London on May 16
