Mencken: Rascal, Knave, Jackass, Shabby, Scurvy and Other Kind Words for Professional Politicisns

The Book: The Impossible H. L. Mencken and Free Republic ^ | August 19, 1935 | H. L. Mencken

[alloysteel]

Not just H.L. Mencken, but another commentator from that period, Will Rogers. There was a time when truth, REAL truth, could be spoken to power, and not have a thousand apoplectic anti-dialectic towers of rectitude come swarming down like murder hornets

[poconopundit]

Jacquerie,

Getting back to you after a month. Wanted to thank you for introducing the 17th century Algernon Sidney.

Wikiquotes has a few great quotes of his. And I’ll note that his is one pundit who was executed for his writings by the English King.

[Jacquerie]

I highly recommend reading his Discourses. He's easier to read than Alexander Hamilton.

His lay knowledge of the Bible is incredible, and he used biblical references to refute authoritarian regimes of all sorts . . . including the so-called Divine Right of Kings.

Our Framers highly respected Sidney, the martyr for liberty.

I wrote a few posts about this incredible man and his times at my blog.

http://articlevblog.com/2019/10/algernon-sidneys-advice-for-article-v-opponents/

http://articlevblog.com/2018/08/algernon-sidney-and-the-deep-state/

http://articlevblog.com/2017/06/algernon-sidney-and-corrective-self-government/

http://articlevblog.com/2016/02/algernon-sidney-republican-martyr-i/

http://articlevblog.com/2016/02/algernon-sidney-republican-martyr-ii/

Yeah. I like Sidney. Like the Federalist Papers, Sidney should be in every AP high school civics class.