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  • Why Leftism Fails: A Historical Study, Part One

    03/18/2024 9:35:40 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/18/2024 | Mark Lewis
    Leftism fails for a lot of reasons and I can’t go into all of them without writing an encyclopedia. But I can establish the most important. I would like to begin this series by sharing with you a passage from historian Will Durant in his book Our Oriental Heritage, regarding the fall of the Persian empire in the 4th century B.C.:“It is in the nature of an empire to disintegrate soon, for the energy that created it disappears from those who inherit it, at the very time that its subject peoples are gathering strength to fight for their lost liberty....
  • And Then There's Maude Lyrics by Dave Grusin and Andrew Bergmen

    03/16/2024 6:00:49 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 29 replies
    Lyrics on Demand ^ | 1972 | Lyrics on Demand
    Lady Godiva was a freedom rider, She didn't care if the whole world looked, Joan of Arc with the Lord to guide her, She was a sister who really cooked, Isadora was the first bra-burner, Ain't ya glad she showed up? (Oh yeah!) And when the country was fallin' apart, Betsy Ross got it all sewed up.
  • Review of "The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Diaz

    03/16/2024 5:10:39 AM PDT · by marktwain · 50 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | June 4, 2017 | Dean Weingarten
    The American edition, published in 1956, 468 pages, Translated by A.P. Maudsley The Diaz account is the best history book that I have read. It has all the advantage of a first person account and reads like a well written adventure novel. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo is the only extant first person account of the campaign under the command of Hernando Cortez from 1519 to 1520. The campaign resulted in the discovery and conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico. Cortez himself wrote five long letters to Carlos V in Spain. Parts...
  • City Slammed for Stalling on Plan to Rename Racist Ballpark

    03/15/2024 11:03:43 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 20 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | 3/12/24 | Brooke Leigh Howard
    “John Euless, namesake of Fresno City College’s Euless Park… a 1922 newspaper article identified (Euless) as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Fresno,” Warszawski wrote in the editorial. “Reading that, my eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets. Fresno City’s baseball facility, and former home to minor-league baseball from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, is named for a KKK leader?” Warszawski continued that he found a newspaper from 1922 that included a list of Klansmen’s names—including Euless—which was “seized by police during a raid… and released to the media by authority of the Fresno County district...
  • Scaramucci: Trump Is the ‘Most Un-American Presidential Nominee in U.S. History’

    03/15/2024 6:19:11 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/14/2024 | Pam Key
    Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday on CNN’s “The Source” that former President Donald Trump is the “most un-American presidential nominee in U.S. history.” Scaramucci said, “I think any of those other things that could happen before the trial, particularly the documents case, where if you really read through that complaint, that’s where the most damning evidence is. If none of that happens, it’s a Trump vs. Biden rematch. I think people have to get focused on that.” He continued, “They have to run the reply of Donald Trump, what he said, what he did over the...
  • No Lessons Learned: Adobe’s Woke AI Follows in Google’s Footsteps by Erasing History

    03/14/2024 2:56:18 PM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 14 Mar 2024 | Lucas Nolan
    Adobe’s AI image creation tool, Firefly, has stumbled into the same pitfalls as Google’s Gemini AI by creating woke revisions of history, raising concerns about the limitations and biases inherent in generative AI systems. Semafor reports that as tech giants race to develop cutting-edge generative AI tools, the potential for these systems to perpetuate harmful biases and spread misinformation has become a growing concern. Adobe’s recently launched Firefly, an AI image creation tool, has found itself embroiled in a controversy reminiscent of Google’s Gemini AI, highlighting the challenges companies face in controlling these powerful yet imperfect technologies. Like Gemini before...
  • Support Black History for Miles (United Airlines)

    03/12/2024 10:38:35 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 22 replies
    United Airlines | March 12, 2023 | United Airlines
    Just in case you are wondering how you can support Black History Month AND get rewarded, to boot!
  • History of Joe Biden/Barf

    03/12/2024 6:19:23 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 5 replies
    John Coogan ^ | 1/3/24 | John Coogan
    Everything was dunky hory. He's a saint!/sarc
  • Christopher Dawson’s “Beyond Politics”

    03/11/2024 1:42:31 PM PDT · by xoxox · 3 replies
    The Imaginative Conservative ^ | March 9th, 2024| | By Daniel J. Sundah
    There is, in the words, nothing “beyond” politics but ideology, which has left a cultural attitude of passive resignation and a transformation of civilization such as the world has never seen before. That, on the other hand, was Dawson’s argument as of January 1, 1939, at which time he argued that the problem was not merely a conflict between Democracy and Dictatorship or between Fascism and Communism. It was, rather, a change in the whole social structure of the modern world, which affects religion and culture as well as politics and economics, such that we might expect to see the...
  • Historic Loudoun County portraits, photos of Commonwealth's Attorneys reported 'missing'

    03/07/2024 4:57:33 PM PST · by CFW · 6 replies
    Wjla.com ^ | 2/7/24 | Nick Minock
    ASHBURN, Va. (7News) — 7News has learned that portraits and photos of Loudoun County’s former commonwealth’s attorneys are missing. They were last seen when former Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj was in office. “The portraits and photographs of the previous commonwealth’s attorneys are a part of Loudoun County history. The county needs to have them back so that they can be appropriately preserved,” current Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Bob Anderson told 7News. The 1800s and there are no backup copies of many of them, according to multiple sources. In an email obtained by 7News, Loudoun County Administrator Tim Hemstreet wrote on...
  • VA reverses plan to ban iconic WWII kiss photo from medical sites

    03/05/2024 9:37:31 AM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 14 replies
    <p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is overruling plans to ban the famous Times Square kiss photo marking the end of World War II from all department health care facilities, a move criticized as political correctness run amok.</p><p>The ban was announced internally at VA medical facilities late last month in a memo from RimaAnn Nelson, the Veterans Health Administration’s top operations official. Employees were instructed to “promptly” remove any depictions of the famous photo and replace it with imagery deemed more appropriate.</p>
  • The Cult of Doomerism (Man Up/Woman Up)

    03/03/2024 6:26:34 PM PST · by Reddy · 40 replies
    Substack ^ | 03/02/2024 | Larry Schweikart
    “If you think you’re going to vote your way out of this you’re wrong.” “They’ll just steal it again.” Folks, I’m about to blow a gasket with these types. Many of these people think they are—-or portray themselves as—-MAGA or “conservatives.” There is nothing whatsoever conservative or MAGA about this worldview. Quite the contrary, if I was a DemoKKKrat I would energetically promote this kind of thinking to suppress MAGA and conservative turnout. It is simply a wrong worldview in several ways.
  • The Real Reason Military Recruitment is Failing: Because of what we’re teaching about our country in our nation’s schools.

    02/26/2024 9:55:35 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    Hotair ^ | 02/27/2024 | Jazz Shaw
    It's no secret that the US military has repeatedly missed some or all of its recruitment goals over the past several years. Various reasons have been offered, ranging from low pay to low unemployment rates and better opportunities in the civilian world. Others have suggested that our endless wars in foreign lands act as disincentives to enlistment because of the higher risk that recruits will end up coming home in a body bag rather than reaching retirement. But during a recent hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, one Army veteran and former Senate candidate, Jake Bequette, offered a potentially...
  • Google’s Ultra-Woke Gemini AI Runs Amok Revising History

    02/22/2024 1:09:04 PM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 22 Feb 2024 | Lucas Nolan
    The New York Post reports that Google’s highly-touted AI chatbot Gemini has come under fire this week for producing ultra-woke and factually incorrect images when asked to generate pictures. Prompts provided to the chatbot yielded bizarre results like a female pope, black Vikings, and gender-swapped versions of famous paintings and photographs. When asked by the Post to create an image of a pope, Gemini generated photos of a Southeast Asian woman and a black man dressed in papal vestments, despite the fact that all 266 popes in history have been white men. A request for depictions of the Founding Fathers...
  • Whatever happened to S&H Green Stamps? Here's the story with vintage photos

    02/17/2024 11:59:52 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 108 replies
    AL.Com ^ | 4/25/16 | Kelly Kazek
    Do you remember when a trip to Grandma's meant going through her drawer filled with S&H Green Stamps so you could lick 'em and stick 'em into those little booklets? Green Stamps were offered in certain regions beginning in 1896 but they were most widely distributed in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1980s, with a peak in the 1960s and '70s. Did you know you can still redeem any you might find lying around? Yep. S&H is still in business, only altered for a digital world. Read on to learn how to redeem them
  • My historical research gravely offended Putin. He wants revenge

    02/14/2024 8:56:55 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 22 replies
    Telegraph ^ | 13 February 2024 • 7:00pm | David Abulafia
    What have I done to be placed on the sanctions list of the Russian Foreign Ministry, alongside several distinguished historians of eastern Europe? My normal hunting ground (not the right word for a maritime historian) is the Mediterranean and the oceans beyond. But maybe Russia’s mandarins know that I am now writing about the Black Sea. Since the reign of Peter the Great in the 18th century, Russia has seen the Black Sea as a vital gateway to the wider world. The Ottoman sultans blocked Russian attempts to reach warmer waters via Istanbul. Russian ships bound for intended conquests had...
  • BOOK: The Palestinian deceit: The true story after 75 years of unbelievable anti-Israeli fake news

    02/12/2024 9:24:02 PM PST · by Milagros · 7 replies
    Feb 2023 | Tanio Romano
    The Palestinian deceit: The true story after 75 years of unbelievable anti-Israeli fake news.One issue on which the historical assessment is almost unanimously in favour of the ‘Palestinian’ side is undoubtedly that of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The very few publications that offer a more cautious or at least neutral assessment of the Israeli camp come mainly from Jewish or Israeli authors. What was lacking was a counter-cultural and therefore courageous, well-documented, yet fluent and not infrequently ironic vade mecum on a very complex subject, written by someone who is not a party to the conflict. The reader will be surprised...
  • Who Wrote 'The House of the Rising Sun'?

    02/10/2024 9:13:27 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 50 replies
    Far Out Magazine ^ | Wed 24 January 2024 | Ben Forrest
    As far as folk songs are concerned, few have enjoyed the success or longevity of ‘The House of the Rising Sun’. First popularised by The Animals, who topped singles charts in the UK, US and Canada with their rendition in 1964, a wide range of artists from Alt-J to Five Finger Death Punch have recorded versions of the track over the years. A traditional narrative folk song, ‘House of the Rising Sun’ tells the tale of a place in New Orleans, usually theorised to be either a pub or a brothel, which acts as the catalysts for a young man’s...
  • 15 Things Only People Who Grew Up in the 70s Will Understand

    02/08/2024 1:31:25 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 154 replies
    Mom Says ^ | 9/2/23 | Harvey Richards
    Step into a time capsule as we explore the 70s! If you’re a bona fide 70s kid, prepare for a trip down memory lane that evokes waves of nostalgia. The era when bell bottoms reigned supreme, disco anthems ruled the airwaves, and Saturday mornings promised captivating cartoons. Revisit the tingling sensation of Space Dust on your taste buds and the triumphant feeling of unraveling a cassette tape with a trusty pencil. This journey isn’t just a stroll through the past; it’s a cherished badge of honor. So, ease into those groovy vibes, queue up some Bee Gees tunes, and traverse...
  • 2020 Election Fraud - Part I

    02/06/2024 2:17:18 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 8 replies
    Forgotten History ^ | 5/2/23 | Colin Heaton
    Elections and other political processes are pivotal to the quality of a country’s governance. Elections can either greatly advance or set back a country’s long-term democratic development, as well as U.S. foreign policy priorities. The most fundamental principle defining credible elections is that they must reflect the free expression of the will of the people. To achieve this, elections should be transparent, inclusive, and trusted by voters and those elected. There have been several questionable elections. In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in an election marred by voter fraud, and violence. But the 2020...