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  • Tea Partiers did not deface Plymouth Rock

    01/25/2014 9:11:21 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 10 replies
    Here's another story that I am Johnny-come-lately on: Anarchists Deface Plymouth RockTo me, a story like this is a great opportunity to further educate about the history of progressivism. Anarchists are completely different from conservatives, but that has never stopped progressives from mixing the two and it hasn't for 100 years. I had a lot of fun putting that post together, I encourage everybody to lift and use all of the original sources for your own benefit. You don't have to click that link. Here they are again, the original sources. Harry Reid says: (video) When I was in school,...
  • Does this mean that progressives now support nullification?

    01/25/2014 5:47:06 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 13 replies
    How many of you missed this story? EPA overrides Congress, hands over town to Indian tribesHere's the first paragraph: Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law passed by Congress and angering state officials. But here's how I read it: Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of...
  • Living and Breathing: The British Constitution

    01/18/2014 7:09:51 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 22 replies
    Does being unwritten make the British Constitution a living and breathing document?Most conservatives resist the notion that the Constitution is a living and breathing document. But perhaps the notion is worth a second look if you just ask the following question: Which constitution? Once you decide to start comparing constitutions you might be surprised at your findings. There are living Constitutions out there, they just don't apply to the United States of America. This article is built around three goals. First, to highlight a small piece of the history of Progressivism and how it relates to what’s written. Second, to...
  • The importance of subtlety and reader perception to manipulative journalism

    01/11/2014 5:43:32 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 6 replies
    "The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences ere those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception." - Walter Lippmann, "Public Opinion", page 89. So who creates and controls these preconceptions? Journalists do, and he knows it. He says so on page 355: It is a problem of provoking feeling in the reader, of inducing him to feel a sense of personal identification with...
  • Is Walter Lippmann really the "Father of Modern Journalism"? Part 2

    01/04/2014 8:57:55 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 6 replies
    As a continuation of my prior post, I want to point out some more things I have found. This will further highlight the importance of Lippmann's ideas among the journalistic world - not because I say they're important, but because journalists themselves say or write it. One of the things I mentioned in the prior post was that the Harvard School of Journalism has a monument to Walter Lippmann, right on their campus. That's a fairly profound statement on their behalf of what their view of Lippmann was. They also proudly proclaim it: That’s our home, Lippmann House, above in...
  • New audiobook release: Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann

    01/01/2014 6:59:13 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 3 replies
    New audiobook release: Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann "You want to know why journalism doesn't get it? You know why journalism isn't on top of it? Because they have read Walter Lippmann." - Glenn Beck, May 27th, 2010. The implication here is that if you want to understand the foundational corruption of the institution of journalism, you should be reading Walter Lippmann. They are. Now you have a new option on the table. Listen to it. This book consists of 28 chapters, all 28 are now freely downloadable. More than anything else, this is what the progressingamerica project is all...
  • The Slavery Party, by Frederick Douglass

    12/09/2013 10:07:43 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 14 replies
    Original Sources | May, 1853 | Frederick Douglass
    The Slavery Party(title reference) The Slavery Party, full text, from a larger untitled speech. May, 1853. MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The resolution upon which I propose to make a few remarks respects the present condition and the future prospects of the whole colored people of the United States. The subject is a great one, and opens ample scope for thought and feeling. I feel a diffidence in undertaking its consideration for two causes: first, my own incompetence to do it justice; and the second is, the peculiar relation subsisting between me and the audience I am to address. Sir,...
  • Woodrow Wilson and the "Spirit of the Age"

    12/07/2013 7:12:47 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 14 replies
    In his 1908 book "Constitutional Government in the United States", Woodrow Wilson uses a line that could be easy to overlook, but it is a crucial point. On page 69, Wilson writes the following: The Presidents who have not made themselves leaders have lived no more truly on that account in the spirit of the Constitution than those whose force has told in the determination of law and policy. No doubt Andrew Jackson overstepped the bounds meant to be set to the authority of his office. It was certainly in direct contravention of the spirit of the Constitution that he...
  • Fifty Shades of Journalistic Grey

    11/30/2013 5:37:45 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 2 replies
    Do you think Obama is the first radical to give someone in the media a thrill up their leg? No, not really. I recently uploaded an article lifted out of The Metropolitan, titled "Understanding Woodrow Wilson". I first referenced this article over a year ago, but I need it for a future article I am writing and I noticed that the article is not searchable via a search engine. Well, was. Now that problem is solved. Anyways, If you read the article you cannot help but notice how big of a puff piece it is. Being as I am normally...
  • Understanding Woodrow Wilson, by Peter Clark Macfarlane

    11/26/2013 11:32:05 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 22 replies
    The Metropolitan ^ | October 1912 | Peter Clark MacFarlane
    Understanding Woodrow Wilson/UnderstandingWilsonPeterClarkMacFarlane>Archive.org) It is highly important that the people of the United States should not deceive themselves regarding Woodrow Wilson. The man is less transparent than he seems. He thinks in ultimates. He sees to the end of the road before ever he takes the trail. In his book on "Congressional Government,"' written twenty-seven years ago, there are not wanting evidences that he was thinking even then that he might some day be President. He has the most undaunted faith in the results of his own mental processes. His personal resources have apparently not even been taxed - no...
  • Would you like to watch Ted Cruz debate an actual Communist?

    11/20/2013 12:08:13 PM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 10 replies
    The video is here. This is pretty straight forward - Van Jones is a revolutionary communist, he has plainly admitted that. So what I would like to do is take the opportunity to remind everybody about the STORM manifesto. When it comes to Jones and 'communism', there is no name calling involved. It's what he actually believes, and this manifesto goes a long way towards helping you make a valid argument. Below are the chapter by chapter recordings on You Tube. This took me a lot of time to record at the time. Please pass it on to others you...
  • Kerry Makes It Official: 'The era of the Roosevelt Corollary Is Over'

    11/19/2013 12:45:54 PM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 2 replies
    You may have seen the news by now that John Kerry said the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over. Problem is, if you read what he said he isn't substantively talking about the Monroe Doctrine. He's talking about the Roosevelt Corollary. John Kerry(a progressive) is rejecting his own history! Theodore Roosevelt is one of John Kerry's own founding fathers, being the first President of the Progressive era. So what exactly did John Kerry say? Among other things: The relationship that we seek and that we have worked hard to foster is not about a United States declaration about how...
  • Stalin: The collective method proved to be an exceedingly progressive method

    11/16/2013 7:32:13 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 27 replies
    In a speech to the Russian people on February 9th, 1946, Joseph Stalin explained the following: Secondly, by the policy of collectivizing agriculture. To put an end to our backwardness in agriculture and to provide the country with the largest possible amount of market grain, cotton, and so forth, it was necessary to pass from small peasant farming to large-scale farming, for only large-scale farming can employ modern machinery, utilize all the achievements of agricultural science and provide the largest possible quantity of market produce. But there are two kinds of large-scale farming -- capitalist and collective. The Communist Party...
  • Speech delivered by Joseph V Stalin, February 9th, 1946

    11/16/2013 7:29:49 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 12 replies
    Wilson Center ^ | February 9, 1946
    Speech Delivered by Josef Vissarionovich Stalin at a meeting of voters of the Stalin Electoral District, MoscowFebruary 9, 1946Comrades! Eight years have passed since the last elections to the Supreme Soviet. This has been a period replete with events of a decisive nature. The first four years were years of intense labour on the part of Soviet people in carrying out the Third Five-Year Plan. The second four years covered the events of the war against the German and Japanese aggressors -- the events of the Second World War. Undoubtedly, the war was the main event during the past period....
  • "The American Invaders": Fred MacKenzie's indictment of big government in Great Britain

    11/09/2013 6:19:26 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 3 replies
    Frederick Mackenzie's book is one that progressive historians love to flaunt amongst other progressive historians and among their students. But have you ever actually read the book? You should, because if you wish to challenge a progressive historian it will serve you well. I'll explain: I chose Robert B. Reich's 2010 book "The Work of Nations" to serve as my example, because his is a high profile name that's easily recognizable. At the end, I will list some others. On page 29 of "The Work of Nations", the following is written in a footnote: Beginning in the 1890's, the average...
  • Why do journalists want to separate themselves from the evils of advertising?

    08/12/2013 7:02:51 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    Last week, on Rush's show he spent quite a lot of time talking about how journalists view their industry as being above advertising; that they do not need to make a profit. They should be able to lose money in perpetuity and never face cutbacks. There is an answer to why this mindset exists. In short, journalists view advertising as a hallmark of "yellow journalism". Delos F. Wilcox, Ph. D. gives us the answer we need on page 91 of a book he wrote titled "The American Newspaper: A Study in Social Psychology". Published in 1900, originally in the Annals...
  • A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism - the perfect commune

    08/10/2013 7:32:53 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 12 replies
    In "Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society", George Fitzhugh writes the following: (pages 244-246) Domestic slavery in the Southern States has produced the same results in elevating the character of the master that it did in Greece and Rome. He is lofty and independent in his sentiments, generous, affectionate, brave and eloquent; he is superior to the Northerner in every thing but the arts of thrift. History proves this. A Yankee sometimes gets hold of the reins of State, attempts Apollo, but acts Phaeton. Scipio and Aristides, Calhoun and Washington, are the noble results of domestic...
  • ‘The Very Best Form of Socialism’: The Pro-Slavery Roots of the Modern Left

    08/10/2013 6:31:01 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    Breitbart ^ | August 6th, 2013 | Jarrett Stepman & Inez Feltscher
    The left has been waging a decades-long smear campaign against conservatives, painting them as bigots who have been on the wrong side of history on every issue, including America’s greatest sin – slavery. Vice President Joe Biden even went as far as to suggest during the 2012 election that a Republican victory would re-enslave African-Americans. Leftist academics and historians have gone to great lengths to bury and distort the names and legacies of the men who defended the ugliest of American institutions; men whose philosophy on government, rights, and liberty, as it turns out, is uncomfortably close to their own....
  • Old "distributive justice" vs new "distributive justice" and language abuse by progressives

    07/26/2013 7:48:44 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 6 replies
    Old "distributive justice" vs the new "distributive justice", and the abuse of the English language by progressivesThe interesting thing about history is that there is very little that's new under the sun. This is also true for the term "distributive justice". I asked the question "Is "distributive justice" yet another idea that progressives imported from Germany?" to which the answer is yes. American Progressives did import it from Germany, all you have to do is check the progressives' footnotes. But that is not where this ends, because the German Socialists originally got the term from somewhere else. In short, there's...
  • Character Sketch: W. Randolph Hearst, By William Thomas Stead (1908)

    07/24/2013 6:34:23 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    Stead's Review ^ | December 1908 | William Thomas Stead
    W. Randolph HearstThis is the highest and most profitable knowledge, truly to know and to despise ourselves. To have no opinion of ourselves and to think always well and highly of others, is great wisdom and perfection. If thou shouldest see another sin openly or commit some grievous crime, yet thou oughtest not to esteem thyself better; because thou knowest not how long thou mayest be able to remain in a good state. We are all frail; but as to thee, do not think they are more frail than thyself. - Thomas a Kempis, Book I. Ch. I. I.- AN...