Compassion, Generosity, Wisdom, Goodwill: Lincoln In His Own Words
On this President’s Day, let’s turn away the Trumpster Fire for just a moment and remember what a difference a great leader can make.Abraham Lincoln enjoyed none of the advantages Donald Trump had...
View ArticleThe Civil War was the “War between the States,” and it wasn’t fought over...
This argument is used as part of the Southern Strategy, when Republicans/Right Wing took over the South.Unfortunately, it is untrue on two levels: The Civil War was between a national government and a...
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Words, words, words: PATRIOT
The word patriot has seen a resurgence in recent decades, both in art (The Patriot, Patriots Day, Patriot Games) and in politics, PACs, and vigilante groups (The Patriot Act, Tea Party Patriots, Three...
View ArticleTrump 20 Something Impulse: Ban – Bomb – Blame Obama
Despite GOP hypocrisy, Wells Fargo top executive’s shell-game and Mafia family like coup at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, no one is about to stand over America singing, Oh Danny Boy– unless We the People,...
View ArticleTrump: 'Why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked...
Donald Trump is extremely confused again, where confused means ignorant beyond reckoning. Let’s start your reading of his discussion, with interviewer Salena Zito, of the seventh president of the...
View ArticleWhy Andrew Jackson Is Never Quoted on Inspirational Posters
On Peace:“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”On Compassion for his enemies:"John Calhoun, if you secede from my...
View ArticleTrump Explains Grant’s Victory at Gettysburg
President Trump said in an interview with Smithsonian Magazine that Union General Ulysses S. Grant prevailed in the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg because he was a “totally awesome, believe me.”"Grant had...
View ArticleDon't Know Much About History . . .
His Excellency Donald TrumpHas once more proved dumb as a stump.That Frederick Douglass has passed onWould be surprising news to Don;It was clear from what he saidHe didn't know the man was dead.A...
View ArticleThe Village Resistance - Tuesday 5/2/17 Hangout: Ruining a Sam Cooke Song...
Now he’s gone and done it. The WH resident has shown us his ignorance about virtually every topic for months, if not years. But today, I saw this tweet:xWhen are we scheduling the "March for...
View ArticleDonald Trump doubles down on the story of Andrew Jackson, peace maker
Donald Trump is utterly unable to admit a mistake. It doesn’t matter what the subject is or how egregious the original remark. It doesn’t matter if it’s something he said off the cuff without much, or...
View Article< Johnny Carson voice > I Did Not Know That
As many of you know, we are in the midst of a sad, absurd controversy in New Orleans as the city government removes monuments honoring Confederate leaders and white supremacist causes.The long-overdue...
View ArticleIgnorance And Lies
In 2013 Frank Furedi complained about “self-styled intellectuals, especially the ones who refer to themselves as ‘liberal',... [pathologizing] their opponents as a mentally and intellectually inferior...
View ArticleTrump's Short Film About The Civil War
It could have been prevented by a great president, Andrew Jackson, or his younger brother, Mr. October, Reggie Jackson.xxYouTube Video
View Article“Gaslighting the G.O.P.” [Cartoon]
An experiment in visualizing political commentary. Sometimes, poorly. Well, often poorly. Works may include satire and parody. Link to full album.
View ArticleUkraine Ukulele
Did you know that Andrew Jackson played the ukulele? Yes, he and Tiny Tim gave camp performances all during the Civil War. And, John Ashcroft, who’s singing actually started the Civil War, would...
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Donald Trump, meet Andrew Jackson!
Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, without...
View ArticleRemember the Confederacy
New Orleans has begun the process of removing Civil War monuments within the city. This has sparked protests and even violence with the promise of more. Recently, in an interview, Condoleezza Rice,...
View Article'See, I picked someone from the other party.' That's how we got Comey—and...
As you maybe, possibly, have heard, the president of our country this week fired the person who was leading the investigation into collusion between his campaign team and a foreign power seeking to...
View ArticleCharlottesville alt-right update: "Come here, ya JEW!"
Many of you read this week of a gathering of White-nationalist, “alt-right” individuals who demonstrated at night with tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA a few days ago, to protest the city’s plan to...
View ArticleDo Confederate monument defenders know what real rebels said about slavery...
By BERRY CRAIGDefenders of Confederate monuments like the ones coming down in New Orleans and elsewhere commonly argue that slavery had little or nothing to do with the Civil War. They say the...
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