Society is an open-ended partnership between generations. The dead and the unborn are as much members of society as the living. To dishonor the dead is to reject the relation on which society is built - a relation of obligation between generations. Those who have lost respect for the dead have ceased to be trustees of their inheritance. Inevitably, therefore, they lose the sense of obligation to future generations. The web of obligations shrinks to the present tense. ~ Edmund Burke

31 March 2008

Making Saints of Monsters

...[O]ne can find the facts of history if one looks for them. But when it comes to the War for Southern Independence, one will also discover pages and pages of spin, excuse-making, and rhetorical cover-ups. History may be "well reported" in academic treatises and government documents, it rarely makes it into government schools.





18 March 2008

Repeal South Carolina's presidential write-in ban!

Voters can write in Mickey [Mouse] for nearly any office. But for more than 25 years, South Carolina voters have been banned from writing in a candidate for president, forced to pick one of the options given or not vote at all...


You cannot write-in a presidential candidate in South Carolina?!?!? You've got to be pulling my leg!


Now what am I going to do? Vote Obama? Vote McCain? Surely not! I can't vote for either of these oath-breaking traitors.!

If I cannot write in the candidate of my choice, I think I should opt out of the sham entirely and stay home.

As I see it, this is the only way for me to maintain a modicum of personal dignity is by withholding my consent from this immoral and fraudulent process. After all, if voting really could change anything, IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL!



09 March 2008

Letters Suggest Lincoln Wanted to Buy Slaves for $400 Each

Barely a year into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a "gradual emancipation" plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities.