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H. L. Mencken's New Deal Constitution
lewrockwell.com
| June, 1937
| H. L. Mencken
Posted on 04/06/2002 10:19:59 AM PST by breakem
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To: breakem
Mencken is King! I read an anthology of his work -- his heyday being in the 20's and 30's -- a few years ago. Find it and read it. It's hilarious!
His 1925 eluogy of William Jennings Bryan is a classic. If you believe FDR is the father and Woodrow Wilson is the grandfather of all in the world that is f***** up, than Bryan is the GREAT grandfather!
Bryan was a combination of Adlai Stevenson (loser), Al Gore (insufferable), and Hillary Clinton (puke inducing) all rolled into one.
And Mencken was the only one with the balls to say so.
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posted on
04/07/2002 10:04:34 AM PDT
by
tbg681
To: breakem
what about the anti-Christian ones? Leave if to the left.
To: tbg681
Thanx familiar with WJB, but now Mencken's book. The guy yesterday said it was his best work.
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posted on
04/07/2002 11:09:54 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: breakem
Bump
To: Scholastic
The concept that we all have the right to not be offended is ruining the country.
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posted on
04/07/2002 11:10:45 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: Countyline
.........and all your bumps also.
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posted on
04/07/2002 11:12:01 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: breakem
medifores? Perhaps "metaphors"...
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posted on
04/07/2002 12:17:22 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: breakem
OUTSTANDING POST!
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posted on
04/07/2002 12:20:02 PM PDT
by
Buckeroo
To: Bigg Red
Thanx, it's been a long time and even my spelling is a metaphor.
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posted on
04/07/2002 1:38:22 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: Buckeroo
Thanx, some of my best work is posting other peoples writing? perhaps I'll become a historian where plagarism seems to be an acceptable form. : )
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posted on
04/07/2002 1:39:31 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: BluesDuke
Today, alas, he'd be considered anything from a far right wingnut (by the left) to a venal lunatic and unrealistic obstructionist bent on throwing it all to the left by default (by today's alleged right). I think I'm going to pick up A Mencken Chrestomathy and reread now that I am on the right....be interesting to see if my understanding and perspective on his writing has changed. I sure have!!!! Thanks.
To: LoneGreenEyeshade
Keep it going.
To: breakem
Good idea. Hey, it's catching on ...
To: breakem
"The concept that we all have the right to not be offended is ruining the country." Too true. Isn't it obvious to people? It has to be turned around and headed another direction?
It is my observation that Europe being an old culture and there for us to see their "mistakes objectively", now and before ... that still we do the 'same things' that we see failed miserably. As well as the things that are greatly hampering their countries today. It's a sort of myopic blindness ... that it will work for our country when it didn't work for them Communism, socialism, gun confiscation, socialized medicine. weakened military, U.N. involvement, one world order, etcerta ... We are making some very bad choices.
It is a path we are following on with ... look at France ... just one example.
"Vigilence is the price of freedom"
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To: MyPetMonkey
I like those surveys where they show people the language of the bill of rights and the majority oppose it.
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posted on
04/08/2002 10:15:06 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: Countyline
One thing I might do that the French do. Go sit at the street corner, sip my favorite beverage, and watch beautiful women walk by. For those of us riding off into the sunset.
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posted on
04/08/2002 10:17:57 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: breakem
All of this has come to pass under the current Constitution. There is no need for Mencken's version.
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posted on
04/08/2002 10:19:00 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Maybe we could get Congress to propose his language as more "realistic." Yes, I dare to use Congress and realistic in the same senttence. : )
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posted on
04/08/2002 10:30:16 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: BluesDuke
BUMP!
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