*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
And see especially, Silhouette CAMEO 3 Craft Bundle (#1 Best Seller in Craft Shears).
Here, Amazon Echo - White.
Also, Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870, and Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico.
More, Rose Marie Beebe, Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary.
Daniel Castro, Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism.
And David Roberts, Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars.
Plus, Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs.
BONUS: Kim MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas.
Friday, March 3, 2017
Robert Leckie, None Died in Vain
The cover blurb says this book gives James McPherson's "Battle Cry" a run for its money.
At Amazon, Robert Leckie, None Died in Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War.
At Amazon, Robert Leckie, None Died in Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War.
Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, No Excuses
I assigned an essay exam last week, in addition to my regular multiple choice exam. I need the essay to have students fulfill the college's "critical thinking" requirement. Unfortunately, the majority of students weren't ready to do that kind of critical thinking, even after I gave them the basic question (prompts) in advance.
Anyway, I still have to finish grading the essays, but I'm thinking about the age-old problem of promoting academic success among disadvantaged groups, especially racial minorities.
I'm old school. I think all the progressive "equity" initiatives are a bunch of bull more designed to enrich leftist pockets and administrators' curricula vitae. More and more professional development at my college deals less and less with the problem of student academic unpreparedness. There's lots of talk about civil rights and supporting underrepresented groups, but little in the way of beating back stale leftist pedagogy and dogma. (For example, the idea of strong student discipline in the classroom is virtually out the window, as theories of "restorative justice" have taken over administrative regimes; to truly discipline disruptive, even violent, students is deemed "racist.")
In any case, here's a great book about getting back to basics.
At Amazon, Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.
BONUS: Don't miss the indispensable, Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later).
Anyway, I still have to finish grading the essays, but I'm thinking about the age-old problem of promoting academic success among disadvantaged groups, especially racial minorities.
I'm old school. I think all the progressive "equity" initiatives are a bunch of bull more designed to enrich leftist pockets and administrators' curricula vitae. More and more professional development at my college deals less and less with the problem of student academic unpreparedness. There's lots of talk about civil rights and supporting underrepresented groups, but little in the way of beating back stale leftist pedagogy and dogma. (For example, the idea of strong student discipline in the classroom is virtually out the window, as theories of "restorative justice" have taken over administrative regimes; to truly discipline disruptive, even violent, students is deemed "racist.")
In any case, here's a great book about getting back to basics.
At Amazon, Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.
BONUS: Don't miss the indispensable, Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later).
That's a Big Fish!
Heh.
That gator's going to have quite a meal, lol.
That gator's going to have quite a meal, lol.
Whoa! A woman in Florida captured this crazy sight of a gator carrying a fish across a golf course. https://t.co/Kj4cZjWEVg pic.twitter.com/yeMPoZs6gI
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
Heh. Fan Mail
Trump Won & Won Big!
Fan mail pic.twitter.com/5lU2DG2YVg
— Mark Z. Barabak (@markzbarabak) March 3, 2017
Fanatical Left-Wing Mob Attacks Charles Murrary and Middlebury Professor Allison Stanger
It's getting worse all the time.
I hate to say it, but conservatives could get killed by these mobs. This is horrific.
At the Daily Caller and Inside Higher Ed:
I hate to say it, but conservatives could get killed by these mobs. This is horrific.
At the Daily Caller and Inside Higher Ed:
Leftist Students Physically Assault Conservative Scholar, Professor Over Speech https://t.co/gRj8zpjMvS
— Scott Greer (@ScottMGreer) March 3, 2017
#MiddleburyCollege students shout down lecture by Charles Murray https://t.co/l7umGvRozk #highered pic.twitter.com/1pM4QbPpQ5
— Inside Higher Ed (@insidehighered) March 3, 2017
OMG.This happened after Charles Murray lecture. Female prof assaulted--car mobbed. @splcenter helped incite the hate pic.twitter.com/a6VMclPjxU
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) March 3, 2017
ICYMI: Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican
I'm looking forward to this one.
At Amazon, Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.
RELATED: Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.
At Amazon, Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.
RELATED: Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.
Far-Left Journalist Arrested, Charged With Threats Against Jewish Centers
Well, I told you.
This guy, a leftist, along with apparently dozens if not hundreds of calls from outside the country to Jewish centers, are what's causing this so called "wave of anti-Semitism" in the U.S. Honestly, it has nothing to do with the Trump administration and everything to do with Democrat Party and leftist evil.
At My Pet Jawa, "Juan Thompson of St. Louis Arrested for Hate Crimes Against Jewish Targets": "Juan Thompson is a former staff reporter for the Intercept" and "a Black Lives Matter activist."
Via Memeorandum.
This guy, a leftist, along with apparently dozens if not hundreds of calls from outside the country to Jewish centers, are what's causing this so called "wave of anti-Semitism" in the U.S. Honestly, it has nothing to do with the Trump administration and everything to do with Democrat Party and leftist evil.
At My Pet Jawa, "Juan Thompson of St. Louis Arrested for Hate Crimes Against Jewish Targets": "Juan Thompson is a former staff reporter for the Intercept" and "a Black Lives Matter activist."
Via Memeorandum.
DREAMer Daniela Vargas to Be Deported Without Hearing
Radley Balko's all shaken up, the poor thing.
This is gratuitously cruel. She was brought here when she was 7. They're making an example of her. https://t.co/mu4VMoIZiT
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) March 3, 2017
The utter lack of empathy in some of the responses to this story is depressing. https://t.co/b8vDsZkFnn
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) March 3, 2017
Obama Officials Waging War on Trump White House
From Noah Rothman, at Commentary, "Revenge of Obama’s ‘Former Officials’":
But keep reading, FWIW.
Revenge of Obama’s ‘Former Officials’ - by @noahcrothman https://t.co/d8z9pZGl8i pic.twitter.com/Fhh6SywFeo
— Commentary Magazine (@Commentary) March 3, 2017
For a president who has a uniquely hostile relationship with the press, positive news cycles are both rare and fleeting. The Trump team displayed remarkable discipline by refusing to step on the president’s well-received address to a joint session of Congress. A lot of good discipline did them. Just 24 hours after Trump’s address, a series of troubling reports involving links among those in Trump’s orbit to Russian officials reset the national discourse. Those stories make for a trend, though, that has little to do with Trump and a lot to do with his predecessor. The Obama administration’s foreign-policy team seems to be campaigning to rehabilitate itself one leak at a time, and the press is helping.Democrats are treasonous scum.
The frenzy on Wednesday night began with a revelation in the New York Times that members of Barack Obama’s administration had left a trail of breadcrumbs for investigators who happen to be looking into the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Russian government. The report revealed that intelligence officials intercepted communications between Russian officials and “Trump associates,” and that the administration worked frantically in the final days to ensure those revelations could not be buried and forgotten after they left office.
More than six “former officials” described efforts to reduce the classification on some reports relating to Trump associates’ contact with Russians so they would be widely distributed. They also revealed their efforts to raise the classification level of some information related to Russia that was so sensitive they feared the Trump administration might leak it to Moscow. Some officials apparently even touted their efforts to ask leading questions during intelligence briefings so their questions would be transcribed and archived, leaving clues for congressional investigators should they ever come looking for them.
The Times report revealed that a “former senior American official” disclosed that Jeff Sessions had met with “Russian officials.” The Washington Post confirmed that Sessions took a private meeting with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak, appearing to contradict testimony Sessions provided to the Senate. The controversy whipped up around the discrepancy between Sessions’ confirmation-hearing testimony, and these reports have resulted in Democrats calling for his resignation and Republicans running for cover.
Though it received less attention amid the flurry of reports involving Team Trump’s connections to the Kremlin, the Washington Post published another story involving the decision-making process that led up to the Yemen raid. That raid, in which Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens was killed, an Osprey helicopter was lost, and up to 31 Yemeni civilians died, cannot be said to have gone according to plan. This report alleges that the plan might have been the problem.
The report quoted former advisor to Vice President Joe Biden on national security, Colin Kahl, who averred that the raid was the result of an Obama administration-era initiative expediting the approval of partnered ground operations. Yet, this raid was greenlit as a result of “a more abbreviated White House process.” Kahl took particular issue with the revelation that a sub-Cabinet level meeting on the raid—a meeting scheduled after the raid had been approved by the president and following a variety of briefings on the mission—lasted less than an hour. “You can’t cover the complexity of a topic like that in 23 minutes,” he declared. Other “former officials” quoted in that piece criticized the raid for straining relations with the Yemeni government. In sum, the Obama administration deserves all the credit for what went right in Yemen and none of the blame for what went wrong.
At least a few of these “former officials” who so freely offer reporters at the Times and the Post intimate details about the Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy are members of the infamous gang of nine. These officials within the Obama administration’s intelligence apparatus confirmed to the Post that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn had misled Mike Pence when he said he did not discuss the Obama-era sanctions regime in his phone conversations with Kislyak. As the Times revealed last night, federal officials monitored those calls, transcribed the conversations, and related the substance to the press.
There is an assumption permeating these reports: that those unnamed Obama-era officials are selflessly sacrificing in the effort to prevent the Trump administration from undermining American national security. Some have even dedicated themselves to creating an elaborate Da Vinci Code for future scavenger hunters to decipher. More likely, the Obama administration’s foreign policy professionals are doing their best to retroactively vindicate themselves after leaving office under a cloud of mistrust. In their effort to self-aggrandize at the expense of the current administration, these rogue officials have found willing partners in the press.
The Obama administration was engaged in narrative manipulation surrounding Russia’s intervention into the election process even in its final hours...
But keep reading, FWIW.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Sharyl Attkisson, The Smear
This lady is the best!
At Amazon, Sharyl Attkisson, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote.
At Amazon, Sharyl Attkisson, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote.
Tom Perez, Keith Ellison and the Meaning of Anti-Semitism
From Caroline Glick, at RCP, "Perez, Ellison and the Meaning of Anti-Semitism":
PREVIOUSLY: "7,000 Anti-Semitic Incidents Under Obama?"
Was former Secretary of labor and assistant attorney-general Tom Perez’s victory over Congressman Keith Ellison over the weekend in the race to serve as the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee a victory of centrist Democrats over radical leftists in the party? That is how the mainstream media is portraying Perez’s victory.Keep reading.
Along these lines, Prof. Allen Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who promised to quit the party if Ellison was elected due to his documented history of antisemitism and hostility toward Israel, hailed Perez’s election. Speaking to Fox News, Dershowitz said that Perez’s election over Ellison “is a victory in the war against bigotry, antisemitism, the anti-Israel push of the hard Left within the Democratic Party.”
There are two problems with Dershowitz’s view. First, Perez barely won. Ellison received nearly half the votes in two rounds of voting.
Tipping his hat to Ellison’s massive popularity among the party’s leadership and grassroots, Perez appointed the former Nation of Islam spokesman to serve as deputy DNC chairman as soon as his own victory was announced.
There is a good reason that Perez is so willing to cooperate with Ellison in running the DNC. And this points to the second problem with the claim that Perez’s election signals a move toward the center by Democratic leaders.
Perez is ready to cooperate with Ellison because the two men have the same ideological worldview and the same vision for the Democratic Party. As Mother Jones explained, “There’s truly not much ideological distance between the two.”
Far from being a victory for the centrist forces in the party, Perez’s win marks the solidification of the far Left’s control over the party of Harry Truman. Only hard leftists participated in a meaningful way in the race for leadership of the second largest party in America – a party that less than a decade ago controlled the White House and both houses of Congress.
The implications of this state of affairs are disastrous for the US generally. It is inherently destabilizing for a nation when one of the parties in a two-party political system is taken over by people who have a negative view of the country.
While America as a whole will suffer from the radicalization of the Democratic Party, perhaps no group will suffer more from the far Left’s takeover of the party than the American Jewish community. The vast majority of American Jews give their partisan allegiance to the Democratic Party and their ideological allegiance to the Left.
While Perez made a name for himself by fighting the enforcement of US immigration and naturalization laws against illegal immigrants, and Ellison rose to prominence for his activism in radical African American and Islamic circles, thanks to the so-called intersectionality of the far Left, that makes the cause of one faction the cause of all factions, today Perez is as much an apologist for Israel bashers as Ellison.
Perhaps in response to the danger that the far Left’s takeover of the Democratic Party represents, Malcolm Hoenlein, the long-serving professional head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called on Sunday for the convening of a global conference on antisemitism. In a meeting with The Jerusalem Post’s editorial board, Hoenlein said that one of the goals of the proposed conference would be to reach a universally accepted definition of antisemitism...
PREVIOUSLY: "7,000 Anti-Semitic Incidents Under Obama?"
Today's Deals
Thanks for your support.
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
And, Stanley M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life.
Plus, Kenneth M. Stampp, Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.
Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves.
More, Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860.
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
BONUS: Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America.
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
And, Stanley M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life.
Plus, Kenneth M. Stampp, Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.
Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves.
More, Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860.
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
BONUS: Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Ray Allen Billington, America's Frontier Heritage
*BUMPED.*
I picked up a copy, to continue my study of the American frontier and the Native American experience.
At Amazon, Ray Allen Billington, America's Frontier Heritage.
I picked up a copy, to continue my study of the American frontier and the Native American experience.
At Amazon, Ray Allen Billington, America's Frontier Heritage.
7,000 Anti-Semitic Incidents Under Obama?
Man, that's a lot.
And why were they ignored? What an excellent question.
At Algemeiner, "Why Were the 7000 Anti-Semitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored?" (Via Memeorandum.)
The main reason, of course, is that leftists want to destroy Donald Trump. I don't believe there's any real increase in "hate incidents." For example, those vandalizing and terrorizing Jewish cemeteries are probably leftists. We won't know until there are some arrests. And as for the rest of the so-called "hate incidents" against Jews, every year anti-Semitic attacks top the Justice Department's hate crimes statistics. There's no new "increase." They're just being sensationalized for political gain.
We're looking at at leftist double-standard, designed to make President Trump's administration look like the coming of the Third Reich. It's despicable.
RELATED: "How the Democrats Became the Anti-Israel Party."
And why were they ignored? What an excellent question.
At Algemeiner, "Why Were the 7000 Anti-Semitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored?" (Via Memeorandum.)
The main reason, of course, is that leftists want to destroy Donald Trump. I don't believe there's any real increase in "hate incidents." For example, those vandalizing and terrorizing Jewish cemeteries are probably leftists. We won't know until there are some arrests. And as for the rest of the so-called "hate incidents" against Jews, every year anti-Semitic attacks top the Justice Department's hate crimes statistics. There's no new "increase." They're just being sensationalized for political gain.
We're looking at at leftist double-standard, designed to make President Trump's administration look like the coming of the Third Reich. It's despicable.
Why Were the 7,000 Antisemitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored? by Seth Frantzman https://t.co/vjFkrkBDTd— Algemeiner (@Algemeiner) March 1, 2017
RELATED: "How the Democrats Became the Anti-Israel Party."
Lightning Deals
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Alan Taylor, Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction, and American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804.
More, Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.
Michael A. Lofaro, Daniel Boone: An American Life.
And Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West.
BONUS: Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
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Here, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Alan Taylor, Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction, and American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804.
More, Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.
Michael A. Lofaro, Daniel Boone: An American Life.
And Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West.
BONUS: Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
Most Voters Think Trump is Delivering on Promises
Here's Morning Consult's poll from yesterday morning, "Ahead of Joint Address, Most Voters Think Trump Is Delivering on Promises."
And now, post-address, the president's going to get a bounce.
At Hot Air, "Polls: 76% who watched approved of Trump’s speech, 57% were “very positive” about it."
You can see why Dems are freakin'.
And now, post-address, the president's going to get a bounce.
At Hot Air, "Polls: 76% who watched approved of Trump’s speech, 57% were “very positive” about it."
You can see why Dems are freakin'.
European Union Revokes Marine Le Pen Immunity
The Euro-bureaucrats will try to destroy Marine Le Pen. She may win the presidential election this year, and then look out Brussels!
At Blazing Cat Fur, "EU REVOKES Marine Le Pen Immunity Which Could See Her in Court Over ISIS Tweets."
FLASHBACK: The don't-miss interview from last year, at Foreign Affairs, "Marine Le Pen Interview."
At Blazing Cat Fur, "EU REVOKES Marine Le Pen Immunity Which Could See Her in Court Over ISIS Tweets."
FLASHBACK: The don't-miss interview from last year, at Foreign Affairs, "Marine Le Pen Interview."
'Burnin' for You'
From this morning's school drop off for my young son, who's in 9th grade now.
Led Zeppelin was jammin' on the way over to the school. Blue Oyster Cult on the way back. (I'm an old man, lol.)
At the Sound L.A.:
Led Zeppelin was jammin' on the way over to the school. Blue Oyster Cult on the way back. (I'm an old man, lol.)
At the Sound L.A.:
Pat Benatar
Heartbreaker
7:59 AM
Same Old Song and Dance
Aerosmith
7:55 AM
BURNIN' FOR YOU
B.O.C.
7:51 AM
Let's Go
The Cars
7:47 AM
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
7:39 AM
Wanted Dead or Alive
Bon Jovi
7:34 AM
Long Cool Woman
the Hollies
7:31 AM
Jungle Love
Steve Miller Band
7:28 AM
Your Love
The Outfield
7:24 AM
Suffragette City
David Bowie
7:21 AM
All Right Now
Free
7:04 AM
Amazon Web Services Crashing
My proprietary Pearson education REVEL webpage was down for a while yesterday, which sucked because it was exam day.
Don't know if it was related to the Amazon cloud service crash, but not good either way. (And my school's email web application is down at this moment. Again, don't know if it's related, but hundreds of websites were affected by the crash.)
At the Chicago Tribune, "Amazon Web Services goes down, taking swaths of internet with it..."
Don't know if it was related to the Amazon cloud service crash, but not good either way. (And my school's email web application is down at this moment. Again, don't know if it's related, but hundreds of websites were affected by the crash.)
At the Chicago Tribune, "Amazon Web Services goes down, taking swaths of internet with it..."
'New Chapter of American Greatness' (VIDEO)
Following-up, "President Trump's Blockbuster Speech Leaves Democrats Befuddled (VIDEO)."
Here's the analysis from Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Trump: ‘A New Chapter of American Greatness Is Now Beginning’."
Here's the analysis from Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Trump: ‘A New Chapter of American Greatness Is Now Beginning’."
President Trump's Blockbuster Speech Leaves Democrats Befuddled (VIDEO)
Van Jones wasn't befuddled. Watch the clip below.
Jones is one of those far-leftists who has his flashes of clarity and brutal honesty, and last night was one of those times. And he's right: That was the moment. It was Trump's supreme moment. When the country saw Carryn Owens, the widow of Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens, who was killed in the recent Yemen military raid, this administration's "presidential" moment hit home. And you can't take that away from President Trump. That's what Van Jones says. And if you were watching last night, some of the other best moments were when the cameras panned across the bitter, visceral stone-cold hateful faces of defeated Democrats. Frankly, I think they're still in shock from November, and when Trump clearly stuck to script and hit massively bipartisan points that couldn't not be applauded, the reality of political grimness for the Democrats came into even sharper focus. (It's a glorious time to be conservative, man.)
Van Jones says we may very well have this president for 8 years, and that's what I'm hoping for. That's what I'm praying for. And that's what I'll be working for, to the best and hardest of my ability. President Trump, more than any time I can recall, proved that he's the man we need for this country at this moment in history. It was freakin' beautiful.
From Charles Hurt, at the Washington Times, "Trump speech leaves Democrats befuddled, in ruins, with question marks." (At Memeorandum.)
Jones is one of those far-leftists who has his flashes of clarity and brutal honesty, and last night was one of those times. And he's right: That was the moment. It was Trump's supreme moment. When the country saw Carryn Owens, the widow of Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens, who was killed in the recent Yemen military raid, this administration's "presidential" moment hit home. And you can't take that away from President Trump. That's what Van Jones says. And if you were watching last night, some of the other best moments were when the cameras panned across the bitter, visceral stone-cold hateful faces of defeated Democrats. Frankly, I think they're still in shock from November, and when Trump clearly stuck to script and hit massively bipartisan points that couldn't not be applauded, the reality of political grimness for the Democrats came into even sharper focus. (It's a glorious time to be conservative, man.)
Van Jones says we may very well have this president for 8 years, and that's what I'm hoping for. That's what I'm praying for. And that's what I'll be working for, to the best and hardest of my ability. President Trump, more than any time I can recall, proved that he's the man we need for this country at this moment in history. It was freakin' beautiful.
From Charles Hurt, at the Washington Times, "Trump speech leaves Democrats befuddled, in ruins, with question marks." (At Memeorandum.)
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
President Trump's Address to Joint Session of Congress (VIDEO)
At the New York Times, "President Softens Tone in Outlining Goals: Hinting at a Shift in Immigration Policy, Before Sticking to Party Line in Speech."
And at Memeorandum, "Trump's Speech to Congress: Video and Transcript."
And at Memeorandum, "Trump's Speech to Congress: Video and Transcript."
That address was spectacular. Best #JointAddress I can remember. #PresidentTrump— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) March 1, 2017
Emma Watson for Vanity Fair
At Drunken Stepfather, "EMMA WATSON NAUGHTY SHIRT OF THE DAY."
Feminist icon Emma Watson couldn't care less if she wins an Oscar https://t.co/9cqTM2hpIn— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) March 1, 2017
Back in Print: Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We?
I've blogged this book many times, but it was out of print for a while.
No longer. I guess there's increased demand in the age of making America great again.
At Amazon, Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity.
This is the book to read on American national identity.
No longer. I guess there's increased demand in the age of making America great again.
At Amazon, Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity.
This is the book to read on American national identity.
America Must Lead
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark and former NATO Secretary General, is the author of The Will to Lead: America's Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom.
He's got a great segment at Prager University:
He's got a great segment at Prager University:
Owen Wister, The Virginian
I picked up a copy.
Get yours at Amazon, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains.
Also, The Virginian (Enriched Classics) Mass Market Paperback – Deluxe Edition.
Get yours at Amazon, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains.
Also, The Virginian (Enriched Classics) Mass Market Paperback – Deluxe Edition.
Higher Education's Prejudice Problem
From Professor Glenn Reynolds, at USA Today (via Instapundit), "MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Higher ed’s prejudice problem: It’s bias against conservatives, Republicans and libertarians. But help may be on the way."
How Much Are Americans Willing to Pay for Open Immigration?
From the great George J. Borjas, the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, at the New York Times:
.@MichelleMalkin The Immigration Debate We Need: #NoAmnesty #StopAmnesty #MAGA https://t.co/ycKkrIXoGT— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
#Oscars Got Fewer Viewers
Following-up, "Didn't Watch the #Oscars."
Well, turns out a lot of people didn't watch the Oscars.
At Bloomberg:
Well, turns out a lot of people didn't watch the Oscars.
At Bloomberg:
Despite a dramatic ending, the Oscars got fewer viewers than last year https://t.co/6BEX8k1EYk pic.twitter.com/zkKR5Zp8Ga— Bloomberg (@business) February 27, 2017
That's because the #Oscars are out of touch with everyday, lunch-bucket Americans and traditional values. #BoycottOSCARS #AcademyAwards https://t.co/YyfGVaYd8K— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
Eliot A. Cohen, Conquered Into Liberty
Okay, back to the frontier genre.
At Amazon, Eliot A. Cohen, Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War.
At Amazon, Eliot A. Cohen, Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War.
Monday, February 27, 2017
#PresidentTrump: The Oscars 'Were Focused so Hard on Politics' They Could Not Get the Basics of the Ceremony Right
At Memeorandum.
"Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office” https://t.co/BsRDltlILh
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 27, 2017
Impact Segment: Is Hatred on the Rise in America? (VIDEO)
I don't think so.
But see Roger Simon, via Instapundit, "Who's Behind the Latest Spate of Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats?"
And from Bill O'Reilly's "Impact Segment," featuring Charles Krauthammer:
Bonus Video: At CBS Evening News, "More Jewish Community Centers threats, cemetery vandalism amid FBI investigation."
But see Roger Simon, via Instapundit, "Who's Behind the Latest Spate of Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats?"
And from Bill O'Reilly's "Impact Segment," featuring Charles Krauthammer:
Bonus Video: At CBS Evening News, "More Jewish Community Centers threats, cemetery vandalism amid FBI investigation."
Megan MacKenzie, Beyond the Band of Brothers
Here's something different to shake things up, heh.
From Professor Megan MacKenzie, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The U.S. Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight.
From Professor Megan MacKenzie, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The U.S. Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight.
the logistical gymnastics of #WomenInCombat trolls trying to discredit #Ranger women is blowing my mind. Band of Bros is over. Get over it.
— Megan H. MacKenzie (@MeganhMackenzie) January 20, 2017
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Backlash at Orange Coast College
Following up from December, "Olga Perez Stable Cox, Orange Coast College Professor, Flees the State After Death Threats (VIDEO)."
Caleb O’Neil, the student who video-d the professor, was disciplined; then came the backlash against the college, and rightly so.
At Instapundit, "BACKLASH CAN BE A GOOD THING: A student was punished for filming professor’s anti-Trump rant. Then came the backlash."
Caleb O’Neil, the student who video-d the professor, was disciplined; then came the backlash against the college, and rightly so.
At Instapundit, "BACKLASH CAN BE A GOOD THING: A student was punished for filming professor’s anti-Trump rant. Then came the backlash."
Didn't Watch the #Oscars
And I'm glad I didn't.
What, it was a two-hour Trump-trashing smut show, with a totally FUBAR best picture award mix-up at the end?
These leftist Hollywood elites get what the deserve.
What, it was a two-hour Trump-trashing smut show, with a totally FUBAR best picture award mix-up at the end?
These leftist Hollywood elites get what the deserve.
Spoiled brat leftist #MerylStreep slams righteous #KarlLagerfeld. #Oscars #AcademyAwards https://t.co/cPIP7TMbzT
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
I'm not watching the #Oscars. #AcademyAwards https://t.co/qdoRqvXUbL
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
Not watching, for precisely this reason. But thank you Dana. #Oscars #AcademyAwards https://t.co/jp9lYL5ogg
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
Not for me. Not watching: "5 ways politics could steal the show at #Oscars." #AcademyAwards https://t.co/LqWwl9Yy8D
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
Lolz. So glad I tuned out the #Oscars. Looks like I was right: Totally FUBAR. #AcademyAwards https://t.co/Hm2jOUB887
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
The most politically correct movie won for best picture. Who'd have thunk it? #Oscars #AcademyAwards https://t.co/WZWnj8aGdX
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
'You had one job!': #Oscars flub engulfs accounting firm: #PwC https://t.co/BXmQooc1RC
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
#PricewaterhouseCoopers apologizes for #Oscars fail: #PwC https://t.co/IhHvopMkmr
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2017
This image sums up the end of the 89th Academy Awards pretty well https://t.co/g03MyJxRHT pic.twitter.com/XeQuQ4LuhB
— kcranews (@kcranews) February 27, 2017
Fergus Bordewich, Killing the White Man's Indian
My ultimate goal of all this reading on Native American history and the frontier West is to have a sound basis of rebuttal against the hateful leftists in my department who are expanding the curriculum, quite dramatically, to include Latin American and Indigenous studies. I'm not against that. What I'm against is one-sided indoctrination, which according to more than a few students, is quite rampant on my campus.
So, while I enjoy reading the general histories and more specialized (polemical and leftist) studies, my main hope is to develop my own curriculum and syllabi for courses on race, class, gender, and culture, because these things are coming down the pipeline ready or not. It's best practice to be able to serve all of our student demographics, not just the far-left, non-white constituencies who are being taught leftist revolutionary doctrines and hate-America ideologies.
In any case, here's a wonderful antidote: Fergus Bordewich, Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century.
I'll have more later.
So, while I enjoy reading the general histories and more specialized (polemical and leftist) studies, my main hope is to develop my own curriculum and syllabi for courses on race, class, gender, and culture, because these things are coming down the pipeline ready or not. It's best practice to be able to serve all of our student demographics, not just the far-left, non-white constituencies who are being taught leftist revolutionary doctrines and hate-America ideologies.
In any case, here's a wonderful antidote: Fergus Bordewich, Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century.
I'll have more later.
When America Opened Its Doors
I posted on A. Roger Ekirch on Saturday.
He's the author of American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution.
Kathleen DuVal, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has a review.
At WSJ:
He's the author of American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution.
Kathleen DuVal, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has a review.
At WSJ:
'Refugees were the ideal citizens for a republic." @KathleenADuVal _When America Opened its Doors_ #vastearlyamerica https://t.co/i0QVknRb9J pic.twitter.com/O69zu1svUq
— Karin Wulf (@kawulf) February 18, 2017
America’s founders—both its leaders and those protesting in the streets and fighting the British Army—saw immigrants as vital to the mission of the fledgling nation. The Declaration of Independence accused King George III of “obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners” and refusing “to encourage their migrations” into the colonies. To the Founders, the king’s restrictions on immigration were evidence of his desire to keep the colonies backward and under his thumb. In the newly independent United States, they firmly believed, immigration would accelerate economic development and help the country become a player among the powerful empires of Europe.Keep reading.
As A. Roger Ekirch’s deeply researched and elegantly written “American Sanctuary” reveals, early Americans saw the United States as a sanctuary for people oppressed by the old tyrannical governments of Europe. Refugees were the ideal citizens for a republic: Having fled tyranny, they would be a bulwark against it. And they came. Nearly 100,000 Europeans immigrated to the United States in the 1790s, a dramatic addition to a population that was just under four million at the start of the decade.
But when the French Revolution turned radical in the 1790s, some Americans began to worry. They feared that French as well as Irish immigrants would drag the new, still-fragile country into anarchy. Harrison Otis, a congressman from Massachusetts, gave a speech in which he railed that he did “not wish to invite hoards of wild Irishmen, nor the turbulent and disorderly of all parts of the world, to come here with a view to disturb our tranquility.” South Carolina Rep. Robert Goodloe Harper proposed getting rid of naturalized citizenship altogether. And from the beginning Congress limited naturalized citizenship to any “free white person.”
The war that broke out in 1793 between Britain and revolutionary France sparked the first great divide in American politics. Thomas Jefferson and others supported France, grateful for its help in defeating Britain in the American Revolution and for following the United States into revolution itself. But other Americans, including John Adams and George Washington, were aghast at French revolutionaries’ use of the guillotine and the Bastille. After Washington’s administration negotiated a treaty with the British in 1794 that struck supporters of France as too cozy, New Yorkers threw rocks at Alexander Hamilton. Some congressmen even talked of impeaching Washington.
Into this fractious debate about the place of the United States in the world came the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the British navy—a mutiny that forced Americans to decide if the country was truly a haven for lovers of liberty, even those who had killed for its sake.
Probably half of the HMS Hermione’s diverse crew had been “impressed”—meaning that the British navy had forced them from non-British private merchant ships into British service. On one day alone in 1795, sailors from the Hermione boarded 20 American ships, took nearly 70 crewmen (most of whom claimed American citizenship) and forced them into the British navy. On most ships of the era, impressed sailors grumbled but did not mutiny, but circumstances combined with the revolutionary times and a particularly cruel captain to push the Hermione’s crew over the edge. On the night of Sept. 21, 1797, off the coast of Puerto Rico, several of the crew charged into the captain’s cabin, brandishing swords and axes. After killing him, crew members searched the ship and killed all 10 officers.
Mr. Ekirch’s gripping and timely book both conveys the drama of this long-forgotten mutiny and reveals its importance to the early American republic. The first part of “American Sanctuary” tells the story of the mutiny, and the rest of the book traces the crisis it prompted—specifically when some of the mutineers from the HMS Hermione fled to the United States. Would Americans side with rebels against British tyranny, or with the rule of law on the high seas? Would the United States turn its back on Thomas Paine’s charge in “Common Sense” to be “an asylum for mankind” by extraditing mutineers to Britain?
The man that put all of these questions to the test called himself Jonathan Robbins. A little over a year after the mutiny, an American schooner docked at the port of Charleston with Robbins aboard. He had reportedly bragged to his shipmates that he had been one of the mutineers on the now-infamous Hermione. Charleston officials put him in jail, where an officer who had served on the Hermione prior to the mutiny visited him and declared that the man in the cell was in fact Thomas Nash, one of the mutiny’s leaders. After the British consul in Charleston requested the man’s extradition for court-martial, U.S. Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and President John Adams determined that this was a simple case of mutiny and murder on a British ship. With their approval, the man calling himself Robbins was handed over to British justice.
It was a huge political mistake...
Sunday, February 26, 2017
George Ciccariello-Maher
Remember how I've been saying that indigenous studies are the hippest of the far-left disciplines right now? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a revolutionary Marxist, and I suspect she's pretty much a model for those working in the genre.
Readers might recall how George Ciccariello-Maher got in trouble a while back for tweeting "All I want for Christmas is white genocide."
He's doubling down, it turns out, lol:
And since I'm researching this stuff, here's his book, at Amazon, Decolonizing Dialectics.
Readers might recall how George Ciccariello-Maher got in trouble a while back for tweeting "All I want for Christmas is white genocide."
He's doubling down, it turns out, lol:
— George Ciccariello (@ciccmaher) February 26, 2017
And since I'm researching this stuff, here's his book, at Amazon, Decolonizing Dialectics.
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
And at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "Trump Transgender Guidelines."
And at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "Trump Transgender Guidelines."
Lea Michele Rule 5
I'm behind on my Sunday Rule 5 blogging. I think books have been more sexy or something, heh.
Elite Daily, "Bella Hadid’s See-Through Dress Shows Off Her ENTIRE BODY."
Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY," and "DOVE CAMERON FOR GALORE OF THE DAY."
90 Miles from Tyranny, "Morning Mistress - Two For One!"
Bro-Bible, "Sexy Sara Underwood Strips Down and Gets Naked on Snapchat," and "Milana Vayntrub, the Hottie From the AT&T Commercials, Shows Off Some Excellent Cleavage at Oscars Pre-Party."
Plus, the Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."
From last week, at the Other McCain, "Rule 5 Sunday: Valentine’s Day Pinup Edition."
At Goodstuff's, "GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (282nd Issue) - Priscilla Presley."
Check the Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See……is a horrible evil world killing from carbon pollution dog, you might just be a Warmist."Lea Michele In Hawaii (PHOTO GALLERY) https://t.co/YhKBIIPqAv— TMZ (@TMZ) February 26, 2017
Elite Daily, "Bella Hadid’s See-Through Dress Shows Off Her ENTIRE BODY."
Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY," and "DOVE CAMERON FOR GALORE OF THE DAY."
90 Miles from Tyranny, "Morning Mistress - Two For One!"
Bro-Bible, "Sexy Sara Underwood Strips Down and Gets Naked on Snapchat," and "Milana Vayntrub, the Hottie From the AT&T Commercials, Shows Off Some Excellent Cleavage at Oscars Pre-Party."
Plus, the Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."
From last week, at the Other McCain, "Rule 5 Sunday: Valentine’s Day Pinup Edition."
At Goodstuff's, "GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (282nd Issue) - Priscilla Presley."
Bill Paxton Has Died
From complications during surgery, I guess.
The first thing out of my mouth when I saw the headline was, "Oh my God!"
He was so young and vital. Only 61 years old.
I watched him in "Nightcrawler" on Netflix over the Christmas Holiday. He just seems too young.
At Memeorandum, "Bill Paxton — Dead at 61."
And TMZ:
The first thing out of my mouth when I saw the headline was, "Oh my God!"
He was so young and vital. Only 61 years old.
I watched him in "Nightcrawler" on Netflix over the Christmas Holiday. He just seems too young.
At Memeorandum, "Bill Paxton — Dead at 61."
And TMZ:
#RIP Bill Paxton Dead at 61 https://t.co/Np1hdE9yZt— TMZ (@TMZ) February 26, 2017
Candice Millard, Hero of the Empire
Now this is something to which I can relate.
At Amazon, Candice Millard, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill.
At Amazon, Candice Millard, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill.
Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root
I'm just coming across this book.
It's intriguing, to say the least.
At Amazon, Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.
It's intriguing, to say the least.
At Amazon, Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they’d founded the county’s thriving black churches.
But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. In the wake of the expulsions, whites harvested the crops and took over the livestock of their former neighbors, and quietly laid claim to “abandoned” land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten.
National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s.
Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the hope and promise of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth’s racial cleansing. With bold storytelling and lyrical prose, Phillips breaks a century-long silence and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century.
ICYMI: Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping
I can't get to this one yet, but it looks great!
At Amazon, Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.
At Amazon, Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.
Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican
*BUMPED.*
Excellent, excellent timing.
Available June 27th.
At Amazon, Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.
Excellent, excellent timing.
Available June 27th.
At Amazon, Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.
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L.A. Kauffman, Direct Action
Not to neglect my radical reading, heh...
Here's L.A. Kauffman, at Amazon, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.
And check out the excerpt, "In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down."
Here's L.A. Kauffman, at Amazon, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.
And check out the excerpt, "In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down."
In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down, from DIRECT ACTION by @LAKauffman https://t.co/SBP8F5Np9O pic.twitter.com/AOCHJkMvZA
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
President Trump Won't Attend White House Correspondents' Dinner (VIDEO)
Hey, sounds like a plan.
In fact, the whole thing's going to be a dud this year. A number of sponsors have cancelled after-parties, and what not -- like Bloomberg.
Added: At NPR, "Trump Will Be First President In 36 Years to Skip White House Correspondents Dinner."
In fact, the whole thing's going to be a dud this year. A number of sponsors have cancelled after-parties, and what not -- like Bloomberg.
I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017
Added: At NPR, "Trump Will Be First President In 36 Years to Skip White House Correspondents Dinner."
George Rable, Damn Yankees!
Well, it's been a while since I've sparred with Stogie at Saber Point. Frankly, the dude's lost to the conspiracies of the Confederacy.
Heh, that whole Dylann Roof episode certainly was edifying. You see who's on the right side of history and all that.
In any case, I haven't come across this tome before, but it looks interesting. At Amazon, George Rable, Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South.
And ICYMI, see Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South.
Heh, that whole Dylann Roof episode certainly was edifying. You see who's on the right side of history and all that.
In any case, I haven't come across this tome before, but it looks interesting. At Amazon, George Rable, Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South.
And ICYMI, see Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South.
Shop Deals
*BUMPED."
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And, Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents.
Alan Taylor, Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction.
More, Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.
Gordon C. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
Still more, Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
BONUS: Winston Groom, Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847.
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Alan Taylor, Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction.
More, Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.
Gordon C. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
Still more, Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
BONUS: Winston Groom, Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847.
Gregory D. Smithers, Native Diasporas
*BUMPED.*
Okay, keeping the balance between the mainstream frontier historians and the radical leftists, here's Gregory D. Smithers, Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas.
PREVIOUSLY: Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States.
Okay, keeping the balance between the mainstream frontier historians and the radical leftists, here's Gregory D. Smithers, Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas.
PREVIOUSLY: Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States.
Gotta Keep Pluggin' on The Frontiersmen
This book's great!
Allan Eckert, The Frontiersmen: A Narrative.
See also, The Conquerors; Wilderness Empire: A Narrative; The Wilderness War; Gateway to Empire; and Twilight of Empire.
Gonna read for a while.
More blogging later!
Allan Eckert, The Frontiersmen: A Narrative.
See also, The Conquerors; Wilderness Empire: A Narrative; The Wilderness War; Gateway to Empire; and Twilight of Empire.
Gonna read for a while.
More blogging later!
Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families
This one's right in the era of interest I've been posting.
At Amazon, Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860.
At Amazon, Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860.
Gordon S. Wood, The Idea of America
*BUMPED.*
I love this guy.
At Amazon, Gordon S. Wood, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.
I love this guy.
At Amazon, Gordon S. Wood, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.
Violence Breaks Out in Anaheim as Off-Duty Cop Scuffles with 13-Year-Old Boy (VIDEO)
Everything's going to be videotaped nowadays.
And a single off-duty cop would be having a hard time anyway, surrounded by a gang of young teenage hoodlums.
At the Los Angeles Times, "How an off-duty cop telling teens to stay out of his yard escalated to gunfire, protests and outrage":
And a single off-duty cop would be having a hard time anyway, surrounded by a gang of young teenage hoodlums.
At the Los Angeles Times, "How an off-duty cop telling teens to stay out of his yard escalated to gunfire, protests and outrage":
⚡️ “Hundreds protest in #Anaheim after officer-teen confrontation” #TheOC https://t.co/ymp5kX8upm
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 23, 2017
The altercation on the tidy, suburban street in Anaheim apparently began with a complaint common in many neighborhoods: a group of teenagers walking through a neighbor’s yard on their way home from school.More.
But this seemingly mundane dispute spun out of control on West Palais Road on Tuesday when authorities say an off-duty Los Angeles police officer confronted the group. Other teenagers pulled out their cameras, filming the officer as he held a 13-year-old boy by the collar of his sweatshirt, trying to detain him.
The situation quickly escalated from there. At one point, another teen rushed the officer, sending him tumbling over a line of bushes. The officer then reached into his jeans and drew a gun, firing a single shot.
No one was hurt by the gunfire, which Anaheim police said was aimed at the ground. But footage of the encounter stirred uproar across the country, prompting criticism of the off-duty cop’s actions and questions over why investigators arrested two teenagers — but not the officer — at the scene.
As the video went viral Wednesday, more than 300 protesters took to the streets to protest the shooting. Police broke up the demonstration and arrested 23 people, but not before some vandalized the officer’s home.
The tension in Orange County’s largest city comes after several incidents in recent years in which Latino activists have protested police shootings that they felt unfairly targeted the city’s large Latino community. Many of the teens involved in Tuesday’s incident appeared to be Latino, and the officer appears to be white.
On Thursday, officials from both Anaheim and Los Angeles scrambled to calm the public’s concern.
“Like many, I am deeply disturbed and frankly angered by what it shows,” Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said about the footage of the incident. “The video shows an adult wrestling with a 13-year-old kid and ultimately firing a gun. … It should never have happened.”
Anaheim police are investigating the altercation itself while the Los Angeles Police Department and Inspector General are conducting internal investigations into the officer’s actions.
The Los Angeles Police Commission will ultimately decide whether the officer violated any LAPD rules during the encounter.
“I am very interested in knowing the facts of the incident based on the investigation by the department and the Office of Inspector General that is underway,” said commissioner Cynthia McClain-Hill. “Some of the actions — brief as that exchange caught on video may be — do not properly represent what I believe should be expected and reflected by a member of the Los Angeles Police Department when engaging members of the public, be it on-duty or off-duty.”
The officer, whose name has not been released by authorities, was removed from the field, which is standard protocol after shootings by LAPD officers.
An attorney representing the officer, Larry Hanna, declined to discuss the encounter in detail, citing the ongoing investigations. He also declined to name his client or describe his work with the LAPD, saying he was concerned for his safety.
“All of this will come out,” he said. “I just think that people should let the investigators do their job.”
The union representing rank-and-file LAPD officers came out strongly against those who criticized the officer’s action...
Making America Great Again
*BUMPED.*
From some cool Trump girl, on Inauguration Day:
From some cool Trump girl, on Inauguration Day:
1/20/2017 "We the People" pic.twitter.com/CDOrl8Cs2P— 🌸TrumpGirl® (@Girl4Trump_) January 20, 2017
Godswill Forche
The vote for the new Democrat Party chair is due any moment, and my money's on Keith Ellison. What a joy it will be when he's selected. Talk about sealing the party's fate, heh.
This dude Godswill Forche, who's on Twitter, nails it:
This dude Godswill Forche, who's on Twitter, nails it:
#DNCFuture looks disastrous!. See what this African American man has to say about what has become of the Democratic Party. #CPAC2017 💯 👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/A5y8ccUfy9
— Deplorable Melissa (@sweetatertot2) February 24, 2017
President Trump Gets Warm Embrace at #CPAC2017 (VIDEO)
He skipped the conservative conclave last year, suggesting he'd be too radical for the right-wing mobs.
But he was welcomed like the king he is this year. What a blast.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Trump's popularity at CPAC gathering, which he shunned a year ago, shows how he's conquered conservatives":
But he was welcomed like the king he is this year. What a blast.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Trump's popularity at CPAC gathering, which he shunned a year ago, shows how he's conquered conservatives":
Conservatives love Trump now b/c 'he has all the right enemies.' But how long this honeymoon? https://t.co/CQ5DoTAYbI @Noahbierman
— Marc Duvoisin (@MarcDuvoisin) February 24, 2017
A year ago, Donald Trump skipped the nation’s preeminent conference of conservatives, underscoring the friction between the populist candidate and many of the warring factions in his party during a heated presidential primary season.Keep reading.
Friday, Trump returned to the Conservative Political Action Conference with the blunt force of a conqueror, planting his brand of nationalist, anti-globalist populism like a flag.
His speech, with rhetoric that even Trump said would have been too controversial at the event even a year ago, marked his takeover of the conservative movement, one of several signs of his dominance throughout the conference, which also featured a rare and well-received speech from his chief intellectual influence and advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.
"There is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency or a global flag," Trump said to great applause from thousands of conservatives. "I'm not representing the globe. I'm representing your country."
He echoed ideas he has espoused in the past — denouncing trade deals as the antithesis of "economic freedom," warning that Paris and other great cities of Europe have been ruined by mass immigration, criticizing Democratic and Republican presidents for their interventions in the Middle East.
Although many of the words were familiar, the venue and the passion made Friday's speech remarkable.
Trump spoke directly of his ambition to turn the GOP into "the party of the American worker."
"I'm here today to tell you what this movement means for the future of the Republican Party and for the future of America," Trump said. "The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that [must] put and will put its own citizens first."
While Trump tried to unite conservatives, the speech made little effort to bridge the country's larger political divide. For example, Trump dismissed people who have shown up at town halls around the country to protest reversal of Obamacare.
"They're not you. They're largely — many of them are the side that lost," he said.
The visuals around the waterfront conference outside Washington were just as striking: the red “Make America Great Again” caps, the throngs of college Republicans surrounding Trump’s aides and allies, the giant Trump-decorated pickup truck at the convention center entrance.
As he has repeatedly done in the last couple of weeks, Trump attacked the media for what he sees as unfair coverage. He also showed how much he remembers the details of how his campaign was described in the press, at one point praising The Times for its election tracking poll that consistently showed him leading.
“I must say Los Angeles Times did a great job — shocking,” he said. “A couple polls got it right.”
In reality, the USC Dornsife/L.A. Times “Daybreak” tracking poll overstated Trump’s support, although it did correctly pick up the backing he was getting from disaffected white voters, many of whom had sat out the 2012 election.
Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, an outlet that has presented itself as a voice of the white nationalist alt-right movement, joked a day earlier as he sat down for a marquee event about how far he had come.
He used to hold a competing event called “Uninvited” for conservatives whose philosophies were considered too radical for the conference, Bannon said at a panel featuring him and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
Bannon reveled in his newfound influence as the conference organizer interviewed him in front of thousands of people.
He praised Priebus, the former GOP chairman, another indication of how the mainstream of the party has come into Trump’s fold. But both men made clear that Bannon was the dominant force in shaping Trump’s vision.
Bannon spoke about defending his notion of American culture and lashed out against the “corporatist, globalist media” standing in the way of Trump’s “economic nationalist agenda.”
“If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight," he said. "You are sadly mistaken.”
“We're at the top of the first inning of this,” Bannon said near the end of his remarks. “We want you to have our back.”
Conference organizers seemed to have gotten the message.
Breitbart News owns the first booth by the entrance of the convention hall, hawking “Border Wall Construction Company” T-shirts...
The New Nationalism in America
From Matthew Continetti, at Free Beacon:
FLASHBACK: "The Political Establishment's Terrified by Donald Trump's 'Tangible American Nationalism'."
The New Nationalism in America: How conservatism is changing in the Trump era https://t.co/ytTqhBYbTx via @continetti pic.twitter.com/GtJZRFZkCi— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 24, 2017
FLASHBACK: "The Political Establishment's Terrified by Donald Trump's 'Tangible American Nationalism'."
Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think
Put this one on the gift lists for your tree-hugging, vision-quest enviro-leftist family members.
From Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.
From Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Jill Lepore, The Name of War
*BUMPED.*
Here's another one I'm gonna pick up.
I can't wait to read it.
At Amazon, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity.
Here's another one I'm gonna pick up.
I can't wait to read it.
At Amazon, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity.
'TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: It's Really a Thing...'
Heh.
At Instapundit, "'In her 35 years as a therapist, Arlene Drake has never heard so many clients talking about the same issue. Week after week, they complain of panic attacks and insomnia because of President Trump. They’re too anxious to concentrate at work. One woman’s fear turned into intense, physical pain'."
I think folks should just tune it out, live life. Read a book or something. Go to the movies. Go swimming. Have a glass of wine and talk to your kids. Sheesh. I teach politics for a living. I know there's lots more to life than stressing over the president.
At Instapundit, "'In her 35 years as a therapist, Arlene Drake has never heard so many clients talking about the same issue. Week after week, they complain of panic attacks and insomnia because of President Trump. They’re too anxious to concentrate at work. One woman’s fear turned into intense, physical pain'."
I think folks should just tune it out, live life. Read a book or something. Go to the movies. Go swimming. Have a glass of wine and talk to your kids. Sheesh. I teach politics for a living. I know there's lots more to life than stressing over the president.
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