Posted on 08/09/2010 6:20:11 PM PDT by RepublicnotaDemocracy
How many ways can progressives distort and rewrite history?
If you read a recent piece entitled “Doomed to Repeat History” by policy analyst Ian Millhiser at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress the answer would be countless. His inaccuracies, partisan propaganda, scare tactics, and mistruths scream for a response. Of course, the statist zombies who sop up progressive talking points will probably view Millhiser’s work as the trump card against “tentherism,” but that is the principal problem. Millhiser has no idea what he is talking about (surprise!). He does not understand the objectives of the Tenth Amendment movement and his definition of “tentherism” is hardly accurate. Perhaps he doesn’t care, since demonizing those who support liberty and limited central government is what progressives do best, but Millhiser obviously needs an elementary lesson on the Tenth Amendment and American history in general.
Millhiser begins his piece by stating that “conservatives are over-reading the Tenth Amendment.” This must not be allowed to happen, he contends, because “Tentherism is dangerous,” “Tentherism has no basis in constitutional text or history,” and “Tentherism is authoritarian.” The first charge smacks of a statement Duke Law School professor Neil Siegel made in March when he called nullification “lawlessness.” From the evidence, it appears Duke Law School graduates and professors (Millhiser received his J.D. from Duke) are well versed in statist propaganda but don’t have a clue about the ratification of the Constitution or the original intent of the Tenth Amendment. The first and third can be refuted in tandem, but the second is where Millhiser ignores much of early American history and cherry picks individuals and events to fit his “tentherism” paradigm.
(Excerpt) Read more at tenthamendmentcenter.com ...
Several hundred of them. Really. Keep that to yourself. I don't want to cause any racial unrest in the faculty lounge.
Center for American Progress is all I needed to know...... =.=
I read this artistically its a good one, debunking some of the less ignorant leftist argument. Although only rarely do you run into a liberal who knows enough about history to make theses kinds of clams.
And our side isn't loud enough yet --
JMHO...
What integer reflects the value of infinity?
Millhiser obviously needs an elementary lesson on the Tenth Amendment and American history in general.
Not at all. You needn't know anything at all about somebody, to lie vigorously and viciously about him. It helps if you know something, but it isn't necessary.
Total inversion of the truth, and a perfect Orwellian flower of NewThink.
Well done, you black-hearted SOB's. Now come and get me.
A better name might be the "Sergei Eisenstein Center for Creative Political Lying".
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