H.L. Mencken ……… that’s all ya need

 

1. I too have a Mencken quote linked at mine today. All about the fact that the Confederacy was far more Constitutionally based than the Yankees that forced the monarchy on America via the War of Northern Aggression.

   Posted by cmblake6       06/21/2013  at  12:27 PM  



2. While back we discussed the mess that is Detroit and I found this really great article I thought I’d share here cause ,well, Dr Drew and his email thing:
   http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2091/article_detail.asp

      

   Posted by Rich K       06/21/2013  at  12:49 PM  



3. CM ... are you referring to this quote?

   The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American
   history… the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even
   remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry,
   not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of
   everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg
   sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by
   the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine
   anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against
   self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to
   govern themselves.

   Posted by peiper       06/21/2013  at  12:55 PM  



4. HL was a regular Nostradamus it seems.
   I wonder if he knew who shot Liberty Valence?

   Posted by Rich K       06/21/2013  at  06:08 PM  

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