[KC_Lion]

[KC_Lion]

Lets take a trip back to 1924 Shall We? The interesting thing is Wisconsin.

The Proggerisve Canadate actually won the state, says alot about their entrechment up there.

Number 2, look at where the headquarters are at.

An Ice Cream Polar, must have been the cheapest :)

[Jacquerie]

It was in the contemplation of these truths that the fathers made their declaration and adopted their Constitution. It was to establish a free government, which must not be permitted to degenerate into the unrestrained authority of a mere majority or the unbridled weight of a mere influential few.

Oops. Oh well, something better will rise from the ashes of the American Republic, right?

[tet68]

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

This is why those who lie call themselves “progressives”.

Excellent post.
Thanks.
t.

[justiceseeker93]

For those interested in Calvin Coolidge (or even American history in general), there is a best-selling biography of him recently published titled simply Coolidge. The author is Amity Shlaes (who is probably best known for her anti-Roosevelt history of the New Deal, The Forgotten Man). It's published by Harper Collins.

I'm reading it now and it has worthwhile lessons for today, especially how a low taxing, low spending government can do wonders for the economy.