Sowell Exposes One Aspect of Loony Left’s Self-Mesmerism:
Filtering History (Thomas Sowell)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2501148/posts?page=3
The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton. [snip]
Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism. Yet today there are Americans who have gone to Africa to apologize for slavery— on a continent where slavery has still not been completely ended, to this very moment. [snip]
Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society, or for grievances that can be cashed in today, at the expense of people who were not even born when the sins of the past were committed. [snip]
An ancient adage says: “Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.” But apparently that is not sufficient for many among our educators, the intelligentsia or the media. They are busy poisoning the present by the way they present the past.
Loony Left’s peculiar fondness for terrorists ...
Obama administration defies congressional subpoena on Fort Hood documents
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2502089/posts
While on the subject of Islam in USA ...
Jamaat ul-Fuqra is an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence. ... Fuqra members have purchased isolated rural compounds in North America ...
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/jamaat.htmmilar to Fort Hood shooter:
Malin: so... who called the swat team out on grandma and her tea party friends
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503017/posts
Arizona Legislature Passes Bill Banning Ethnic Studies Programs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503811/posts
Riot police shield Obama from tea-party grandmas
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=147417
Rooftop snipers eye patriots singing ‘God Bless America’
President 0 Refuses to Take Blame for Terrorist on No Fly List boarding plane — blames Dubai
Obama administration says Emirates Airlines Dropped the Ball; 9/11 Commission Vice-Chair Says....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506664/posts
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/obama-administration-says-emirates-airlines-dropped-the-ball-911-commission-vicechair-says-us-govt-i.html
NBCNEWS Correspondent Swallows Huge Fly on Camera...
http://www.breitbart.tv/nbc-news-correspondent-swallows-huge-fly-on-camera-with-slow-motion-replay
[Obama had his bee incident and now this.]