Sorry, yes, but for those unfamiliar with history, this is what it looks like. It’s also what “progress” looks like. Sadly, for “progressives.”
Category Archives: History
Happy New Year
And good riddance to 2013. Let’s hope that it won’t have turned out to be an average year — worse than the one before, better than the coming one.
One good thing about it, though. It’s the year that defiance of the State became cool.
[Update a while later, watching a rerun of the Rose Parade]
That was the year that was — Dave Barry summarizes the suckitude of the past twelve months. We laugh so we don’t cry.
Earthrise
Peaceful Women
One of the tropes of gender feminism is that if women were in charge, there would be less war and violence. Well, ignoring the notorious cruelty of Afghan women, it turns out that women were heavily involved in the Final Solution.
Tar And Feathering
Everything you might want to know about it.
Particularly if you’re a politician. We probably should bring that one back, but I think we should bring back the stocks and public humilation, particularly for stupid officious school officials.
Impeachment
Looking back, fifteen years later.
That episode was the point at which the Democrats lost me permanently, as a party of shameless corruption.
Controlled Powered Flight
Rewriting History
No, WaPo, Richard Nixon was not impeached:
Obama ends his fifth year in office with lower approval ratings than almost all other recent two-term presidents. At this point in 2005, for example, former president George W. Bush was at 47 percent positive, 52 percent negative. All other post-World War II presidents were at or above 50 percent at this point in their second terms, except Richard M. Nixon, whose fifth year ended in 1973 with an approval rating of 29 percent because of the Watergate scandal that later brought impeachment and his resignation.
The resignation was to avoid impeachment (and removal) — he resigned because a group of senators from his own party went to the White House and told him that he’d be convicted if impeached. Because Republicans have the integrity to remove their bad apples, while Democrats circle the wagons around theirs.
Anyway, I’ll bet the reporter who wrote that wasn’t even born at the time.
NBC
…goes full commie.
One wonders what Huntley and Brinkley would think.
That Lenin Statue In Kiev
I was wondering myself why it was even there.