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-Land of the Free
Arkansas Gov. Wants to Cut Robert E. Lee From Martin Luther King Day
[PJ] On the third Monday in January, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi celebrate a public holiday, but they don't just commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. These three states also remember Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson, however, has made a controversial effort to cut Lee off from the holiday.

"I think this provides our state an opportunity to bridge divides," Hutchinson told the Associated Press (AP). He has vowed since early last year to make the change, and has presented it as part of his agenda for the legislative session which began last week.

Arkansas has celebrated Lee's January 19 birthday since 1947, and King's January 15 birthday since 1983. In 1985, the legislature voted to combine the holidays.

Lee remains one of the most magnetic figures of the Civil War. He chose to fight for the Confederacy despite his personal desire for the country to remain intact, and despite a tempting offer from the Union's military. His prowess kept the South in the war far longer than expected, and earned undying respect among both North and South.

Nevertheless, there has been a nationwide re-evaluation of monuments and symbols from the Civil War and the Confederacy in particular. After the 2015 shooting at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, pundits started attacking the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, commonly known as the "Confederate Flag."
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#1  Arkansas Gov. Wants to be re-elected.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2017 9:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
VDH: Trump and the American Divide
BLUF: [City Journal] Indeed, one irony of the 2016 election is that identity politics became a lethal boomerang for progressives. After years of seeing America reduced to a binary universe, with culpable white Christian males encircled by ascendant noble minorities, gays, feminists, and atheists--usually led by courageous white-male progressive crusaders--red-state America decided that two could play the identity-politics game. In 2016, rural folk did silently in the voting booth what urban America had done to them so publicly in countless sitcoms, movies, and political campaigns.

In sum, Donald Trump captured the twenty-first-century malaise of a rural America left behind by globalized coastal elites and largely ignored by the establishments of both political parties. Central to Trump’s electoral success, too, were age-old rural habits and values that tend to make the interior broadly conservative. That a New York billionaire almost alone grasped how red-state America truly thought, talked, and acted, and adjusted his message and style accordingly, will remain one of the astonishing ironies of American political history.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Mercer: Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good
[Daily Caller] A known quantity in the faking department is Rev. Al Sharpton. In a video that gets considerable play on TV, Sharpton informs a rapt audience that "white folks" were cave dwellers when blacks were building empires and pyramids; teaching philosophy, astrology and mathematics. "Socrates and them Greek homos" were mere copycats, aping black civilization.

As revealed in "Helping The Sharpton and Obama Afrocentrism ’Fade to Black,’" this mythistory has a presence in America’s schools, tertiary and secondary.

By now we know that mass media and government under both national parties routinely generate fake news to achieve political ends. That our progressive pedagogues propagandize the youth: That’s well-known and passively accepted, too. Less known is the extent to which fabricated history has been incorporated into curricula.

In "Black Athena," Martin Gardiner Bernal of Cambridge, England, suggested that "Ancient Greece" had been "fabricated," and that chroniclers of "classical civilization" had concealed its "Afroasiatic roots."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2017 09:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At one point in the 1980s my boss at the time, who had grown up with the Martin Luther King, Jr. kids in Atlanta, mentioned such "facts" matter-of-factly in conversation. So this nonsense has been taught for a long time. But the teachng also conflates Egyptians with sub-Saharan Bantu -- hence the "Afroasiatic" terminology.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Lefkowitz in Cambridge, on C-SPAN in 1996, back when such an event didn't necessarily provoke a disruptive shitshow. I probably watched this at the time, not that I remember it, possibly within hours of ogling Kellyanne Fitzpatrick doing morning viewer call-ins or whatever.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/17/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||

#3  suggested that "Ancient Greece" had been "fabricated"

Yeah, and the world is flat.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/17/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  If they were so civilized way back how do they explain what happened to cause Afroasiatic civilization to fall so far for so long?.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/17/2017 13:54 Comments || Top||

#5  If they were so civilized way back how do they explain what happened to cause Afroasiatic civilization to fall so far for so long?.

The MAN, keepin the brothers down
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#6  If they were so civilized way back how do they explain what happened to cause Afroasiatic civilization to fall so far for so long?

Whatcha have against Asia, rjschwarz?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/17/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#7  The last bit in the quoted part of the article uses Afroasiatic, presumably as a way for black historians to piggy-back on Egyptian and Phoenician? successes.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/17/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Strange. Whatever happened to all the African writings of the era? Or the libraries, cities, infrastructure, roads, etc.. Did the white man burn them all down?
Posted by: gorb || 01/17/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry rjs. Anyways, I've met some Copts. They sure are not "Black".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/17/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Anyways, I've met some Copts. They sure are not "Black".

As far as Egyptians are concerned, they are as white as Norwegians. Arabs and Iranians, ditto.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||


Government
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity: Abolish the CIA
[Ron Paul Institute] Every American who looks at the CIA objectively or in a balanced way and judges it by any number of criteria, such as moral, legal and pragmatic, should reach the conclusion that the CIA should be abolished. JFK wanted to break it into a million pieces. Trump is right to dismiss its intelligence reports about DNC hacking. The CIA war on Trump shows us immediately that the CIA is a rogue organization within the U.S. government and a severe threat to America.
I'd settle for an aggressive top tier culling.
The CIA is an internal threat to the rule of law and to the government that it supposedly serves. Senator Schumer acknowledges the CIA’s unbridled power, its subversive power, its power to undermine even a president, especially one that wishes to control or alter the organization, when he says:

"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. For a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this."

Schumer is saying that the CIA is so powerful that a president should not attempt to control it or else! The CIA is so powerful that elections do not matter when it comes to the CIA. The CIA stands alone. The Constitution that empowers the president as the Executive, the boss of government operations, does not matter. Basic American institutions and laws must bow before the threats that the CIA possesses. This is the assessment of a Senator beginning his 4th term and who is the highest ranking Democrat in the Senate in his post as minority leader.

The CIA is an organization that perpetually undermines traditional American values and moral values. It consistently kills innocent people. It continually causes instability and wars. It undermines other societies and our own. It interferes constantly in foreign nations, to the detriment of them and us. It is an unelected power that challenges elected officials. It favors abuses of power, including torture. Its actual value at generating usable intelligence is minimal, often wrong, often misleading, inaccurate and harmful as in the WMD that were never found in Iraq.
Except that WMD were found, labelled as pesticides. But the lie continues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2017 04:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  YES disband it and start afresh
Posted by: anon1 || 01/17/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Too many folks have a Tom Clancy view of the CIA. It's hard to see that the CIA isn't objectively perfect.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/17/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

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Home Front: Culture Wars
Writer Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou attempts to correct the BLM - MLK record.
BLUF: [Dissent] Black Lives Matter is not a rejection of King and the civil rights movement but an extension of their radical legacy. Those who demonize one while romanticizing the other would benefit from studying both a little more deeply. Just because a movement isn’t popular, doesn’t mean it isn’t working.
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#1  Now that I've clicked the link I think I need to scrub my machine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2017-01-17
  Obama Releases 10 More GITMO Detainees Just Before Leaving Office
Mon 2017-01-16
  Noor Salman, wife of Orlando bomber, now jugged by FBI
Sun 2017-01-15
  Three arrested during Belgian police raid on Molenbeek street where Paris attacks mastermind Salah Abdeslam lived
Sat 2017-01-14
  Islamic State supporters face jail after infiltrated in undercover police sting
Fri 2017-01-13
  Belgium charges pair over fake papers for jihadist in Paris, Brussels attacks
Thu 2017-01-12
  36 Afghan parliament staff killed in Kabul attack
Wed 2017-01-11
  Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army
Tue 2017-01-10
  Mosul Left Coast Fully Liberated
Mon 2017-01-09
  U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessels
Sun 2017-01-08
  German Vice Chancellor calls for ban of Salafist mosques
Sat 2017-01-07
  ISIS propaganda king killed
Fri 2017-01-06
  Gunman Opens Fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport; UPDATE 3 5 dead
Thu 2017-01-05
  3 girl suicide bombers gunned down in northeastern Nigeria
Wed 2017-01-04
  Turkey Nabs 2 Foreigners at Istanbul Airport over Nightclub Attack
Tue 2017-01-03
  U.S.-led airstrikes kill 4 Fateh al-Sham commanders in Idlib

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