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2019-12-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Democrat Lawmakers From Virginia Call for General Robert E. Lee Statue to be Removed From U.S. Capitol

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Posted by Fred 2019-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Of course, you know, this means war!

--Bugs Bunny

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-12-25 01:10|| 2019-12-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously projects like 1619 cannot stand as long as real history is around.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-25 03:14|| 2019-12-25 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 He fought for his team. His loyalty first was to Virginia. (I'm sure on most Saturdays in the fall, a lot of southerners and northerners will be cheering their teams. And now for the bowl season.) That was an era when it was considered by many to be the United STATES of America rather than the UNITED States of America.

In Lee's favor, his actions at the surrender and afterward help avoid a nasty insurgency that could have easily happened.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-25 04:24|| 2019-12-25 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Mark my word: Next these loons will demand we raze the Jefferson Memorial. Then they'll demand that we knock down the Washington Monument, and efface the Second Inaugural Address from the Lincoln Memorial -- or else pair it with a scrolling big screen video playing various rapsters' Odes to Trayvon and Gentle Giant Michael Brown et al.

$10k says either the NYT editors or a leading Dem politician or both will demand one or more of the above within the next three years.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-25 05:25|| 2019-12-25 05:25|| Front Page Top

#5 "The sound of the caissons rolling along, the jingle and clatter of the horse's on the street. Then the KABOM ! of the black powder cannon firing cannister with grape shot, blowing through the residential walls of the leftists. "

Posted by Gomez Flugum6633 2019-12-25 08:55|| 2019-12-25 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 What are they going to do about Kappa Alpha?

Posted by Albert Shusoque5511 2019-12-25 10:00|| 2019-12-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Enough, Kiss my white, Irish-American, ass!
Bobby Lee had more integrity, loyalty and sense of duty as he saw it than the entire demorat party today.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-25 15:33|| 2019-12-25 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 A race: "What a season it's been,
With the risin' of 1619!"
"The darkest of entries--"
"With form for four centuries--"
"Has turned all the other nags green!"

Posted by Jeremiah Ebbomomp4337 2019-12-25 23:21|| 2019-12-25 23:21|| Front Page Top

#9 "Washington, DC is 12 square miles surrounded by reality."--President Andrew Johnson

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-25 23:48|| 2019-12-25 23:48|| Front Page Top

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