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Learning the Lessons of History

Posted on | April 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Learning the Lessons of History

 

What are we actually arguing about?

Willoughby Run is a stream too small to be called a creek. Trickling southward through the hills of Adams County, Pennsylvania, it runs between two low ridges and crosses U.S. Highway 30 east of what is now a golf course, but which on the morning of July 1, 1863, was farmland. On the ridge west of Willoughby Run was a tavern owned by Frederick Herr and on that ridge, two brigades of Confederate infantry assembled, having marched some seven miles from Cashtown that morning. These brigades belonged to a division commanded by Maj. Gen. Harry Heth, part of the III Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, the vanguard of Robert E Lee’s force invading Pennsylvania. They marched that July morning toward a memorable clash near a crossroads town less than a mile east of Willoughby Run, a place called Gettysburg.
Heth and his men had little trouble brushing back the Yankee cavalry that had sought to obstruct their march toward Gettysburg where, it is said, Heth believed he might capture a supply of shoes for his ragged troops. As the Confederate brigades lined up on Herr Ridge west of Willoughby Run, the blue-coated cavalrymen pulled back to the ridge on the east side of the stream, on the farm of a man named McPherson. The Union cavalry, commanded by Brig. Gen. John Buford, kept up a desultory fire with their carbines, with little effect on the Confederate infantry at a distance of nearly a quarter-mile, concealed by trees on Herr Ridge. Buford’s troopers were supported by a six-gun battery of artillery, and Heth brought up his own artillery to return fire, as he reconnoitered the position. The Southerners believed the main Union army was still far from Gettysburg, and that they faced no more than cavalry, perhaps supported by some local Pennsylvania militia. Heth gave the order for an advance, with the two brigades deployed on either side of the road leading east. On the north side of the road was a brigade of Mississippi troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Joseph Davis, nephew of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. South of the road was a brigade of troops from Tennessee and Alabama, commanded by Brig. Gen. James J. Archer, a Maryland native and an alumnus of Princeton University.
Archer’s brigade was one of the best in the Confederate army, having led the charge that broke the Yankee line at the Battle of Chancellorsville. One of Archer’s regiments, the 13th Alabama, was led by Col. Birkett Davenport Fry, a West Point dropout whose career had included volunteer service in the Mexican War and the notorious “filibuster” expedition to Nicaragua. And in the ranks of the 13th Alabama that July morning were two young privates from Randolph County, Winston Wood Bolt and his brother Robert, whose fate is of more than passing interest to me. When Heth ordered the advance from Herr Ridge, Archer’s brigade marched down to Willoughby Run and waded across the shallow stream then up the hillside beyond. The 13th Alabama was near the right flank of the brigade, and their attention was focused toward the woods on their left near the road, where Union troops were putting up a spirited resistance. Someone on the Confederate line noticed that these Yankees were wearing a distinctive style of hat they’d seen in previous battles and called out: “Ain’t no militia. It’s them black-hat fellows again. It’s the Army of the Potomac.” . . .

You can read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: American Spectator, History

Rule 5 Monday: #GetWokeGoBroke Edition

Posted on | April 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, here we are in 2019, and not content with shoehorning fatties and trannies into previous swimsuit issues, the supergenius woke folk at Sports Illustrated have decided to inflict a Muslima in a “burkini” and full hijab on us. Ms. Aden might be cute, but who can really tell under all that fabric? Me, I’ll pass on this year’s swimsuit issue. Again. Maybe one of these days when they go back to putting honeys like Kate Upton on the cover and leave off pandering to the kind of people who don’t buy their magazine anyway, it being the hotbed of toxic masculinity it is. Like, sportsball! Ew! Anyway, speaking of Kate Upton…

Hot enough to melt the ice caps.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #601, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns – and not a burkini or hijab in the lot. At Animal Magnetism, it’s the Rule Five Fifth Annual Commencement Speech Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Earth Day (Holly Maddux, RIP), Madison Lintz, Francesca Annis, Game Of Thrones S8E3, Maureen O’Sullivan, Myrna Loy, and Gwendoline Christie.

A View From The Beach is 100% burkini-free! Parks and Rec’s Legionnaire – Aubrey Plaza The Original Snake Eaters, One of Mine Thought He Was a Firetruck . . ., To Be Fair, Is There Anything SJWs Don’t Hate?, Virginia Stops Striped Bass Trophy Season, A Body Blow to Law Enforcement, No! Not Yoga Pants!, Free the Pie!, Happy Easter! and Great Moments in Climate Hypocrisy.

At Dustbury, it’s Aisha Tyler and Bailee Madison

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

In The Mailbox: 04.29.19

Posted on | April 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: John Singleton, RIP, also, Liberation Of Dachau – April 29, 1945
Twitchy: Looks Like Jacob Wohl Is “Helping” Again By Soliciting Fake Assault Claims Against Pete Buttigieg
Louder With Crowder: Brie Larson Wonders Why We Haven’t Had An LGBTQ Superhero, also, Dan Crenshaw Challenges Bernie Sanders To Be Honest For A Change

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #105 – The What Women Want Episode
American Greatness: Obamagate – No Misdemeanors, Only High Crimes, also, The Adolescent Progressive Mind
American Thinker: Global Warming Going The Way Of Russian Collusion
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Spain Goes Left & Off The Rails, also, The Cubanification Of Venezuela – Venezuelans Now Risking Their Lives On Rafts To Escape Socialism
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary Revisited, April 2019, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Orion’s Long Farewell
Da Tech Guy: Another Illinois Governor Is Under Federal Investigation, also, We’re All Making History
Don Surber: WHCA Dinner Trumpenfreuded, also, Hollywood No Longer Needs America
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, As The Customers Are Blown Off
First Street Journal: Isn’t This What The Left Wanted?
The Geller Report: SI Swimsuit Issue Gets Burka’d, also, Joy Behar Blames President Trump For Synagogue Shooting
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Meet The Unknown Scribe Behind These Cult Classics
Joe For America: GOP Senators Man Up , Go For The Throat
JustOneMinute: I Don’t Like Mondays
Legal Insurrection: Kim Foxx Subpoenaed Over Smollett Case As Judge Slams Her Double Standard, also,  Ilhan Omar Laughs Off Meghan McCain’s Criticism Of Her Anti-Semitism
The PanAm Post: Maduro’s Ethnic Cleansing In Venezuela
Power Line: Another Case Study Showing How “Green” Energy Policies Hurt The Environment, also, At The Noor Trial (18)
Shot In The Dark: Pile On
STUMP: Divestment & ESG Follies – Where’s My Money?
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: NG Recruiter Arrested On Child Porn Charges, also, Water Dogs In the News
Victory Girls: Swalwell Says We Will Disarm You, America Gives Him The Finger, also, Democrats Say Trump Can’t Talk About Dem Governor Northam’s Infanticide Advocacy
Volokh Conspiracy: A Vivid Description Of The Torment Caused By Laws Banning Organ Markets
Weasel Zippers: Burkina Faso Church Attack Leaves Five Dead Including Pastor, also, Saudis Reportedly Torturing Gays To Confess They’re Terrorists, Then Executing Them
Mark Steyn: Fosse On Film, also, The Best of All Possible Government Ministries


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Category: Linkagery

Fat Queer Feminist: Diets Are Hitler and Also Rape Culture or Something

Posted on | April 28, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Say hello to Sonalee Rashatwar (@thefatsextherapist), who is against white supremacy, fatphobia, and “penis in vagina intercourse.” Probably I could think of some crude jokes to insert here, but that would be too easy, and also cruel. But let’s ask, what are Ms. Rashatwar’s credentials as a “fat sex therapist”? Well, she is a self-identified non-binary queer who got a master’s degree in social work and human sexuality from Widener University in 2016. How much, uh, practical experience does she have in human sexuality? Honestly, I don’t want to think about it, and it’s irrelevant to the kind of academic expertise that qualified Ms. Rashatwar to give a lecture at prestigious St Olaf College in Minnesota.

 
You’re sending your kids to an expensive private liberal arts college so a fat non-binary queer can lecture them about “ways to unlearn fatphobia”? Because it’s racist to be skinny? And also, incidentally, it’s wrong to be heterosexual because of the “narratives” of “cisheteropatriarchy”? You can watch the two-hour video of Ms. Rashatwar’s presentation at St. Olaf, in which she said some genuinely crazy things:

Science, she told the crowd, is a white supremacist tool designed to oppress the obese.
“We should be critical of the use of science and the production of knowledge to continue promoting this idea that certain bodies are fit, able, and desirable… is it my fatness that causes my high blood pressure, or is it my experience of weight stigma?” Rashatwar, who uses the gender-neutral ‘they/them’ pronouns, asked.
“Fatphobic” science is “often actually eugenic science… eugenic science is Nazi science,” she continued.
After denying the link between obesity and high blood pressure, Rashatwar attempted to link Christchurch mosque slayer Brenton Tarrant’s murder spree with his love for physical fitness.
“I do not think it’s surprising that the man who shot up Christchurch, New Zealand was also a fitness instructor,” the self-described “Donut Queen” said. She argued that the shooting was “a clear communication that there’s still an idealized body. Nazis really love this idea of an idealized body, and so it makes a lot of sense to me that a fitness instructor… might also think about an idealized body in this thin white supremacist way.”

You go to the gym regularly and run a mile or two a day? You’re Hitler!

This is elite higher education in 2019. As Ace of Spades says: “We have to collectively pay for desperate and broken people to spread their self-justifying conspiracy theories to others? . . . We’re paying crazy people to teach other crazy people how to be crazier, in other words.”



 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Teenage Jew-Hater Kills 1, Wounds 3 in California Synagogue Shooting

Posted on | April 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Teenage Jew-Hater Kills 1, Wounds 3 in California Synagogue Shooting

 

A 19-year-old college student is in custody in San Diego after a Sabbath-morning shooting rampage at a synagogue in suburban Poway, California. Police say John T. Earnest killed one person and wounded three others at the Chabad Community Center, after posting a 4,000-word manifesto online in which he blamed “international Jewry” for “sealing the doom of my race.” The son of a high-school science teacher, Earnest also apparently hated Muslims, claiming responsibility for an arson last month at a mosque in Escondido, about 9 miles from the synagogue he attacked with a semi-automatic rifle Saturday.

In his manifesto, Earnest says he was inspired by a man who attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, and by last month’s massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. Skimming through his manifesto, and glancing at details of Earnest’s background, I was deeply disturbed: Here is a smiling, handsome young man with so many obvious advantages who, nevertheless, appears to have been radicalized by the Internet in the span of a few months. “If you told me even 6 months ago that I would do this I would have been surprised,” Earnest wrote in his manifesto, which made reference to various online forums. He had apparently been reading these message boards since 2017, and developed an obsessive hatred of Jews, whom he called a “squalid and parasitic race.”

Discussing this on “The Other Podcast” Saturday with John Hoge, I expressed dismay at this situation. When I was a teenager 40 years ago, there were a lot of things to be bummed out over, but nobody was shooting up synagogues. Mainly we were smoking weed and listening to rock-and-roll music, which might not have been the healthiest response, but it was at least more fun than Jew-hating and mass murder.

Somehow, I suppose, liberals will find a way to blame Trump for this, which is no less crazy than this kid’s blame-the-Jews nonsense.



 

Category: Crime, Religion

FMJRA 2.0: Man, I’m Tired Of Paying Them Dues

Posted on | April 27, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Man, I’m Tired Of Paying Them Dues

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Aisha Tyler
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Man Arrested at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Is Chubby Incel Philosophy Professor
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Weak Link, Strong Link
A View From The Beach
EBL

Violence Against Women Update: Brooklyn Woman ‘Nearly Decapitated’
EBL

Radical Muslim Group Suspected in Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka
EBL

Red-Pill Wisdom From the Blues
EBL

The Belated Admission of Media Error
Dirt People
357 Magnum
EBL

Is Your Far-Right Anger Stoked Yet?
357 Magnum
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.22.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Hypergamy Doesn’t Care’
Dirt People
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.23.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Has The Mythical T-Bone Been Found?
EBL

#GetWokeGoBroke: Australian Feminist Coffee Shop Goes Out of Business
Bacon Time
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.24.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Nerd Prom Drama Queens: Employees of Minor Cable Network Are Pouting
A View From The Beach
EBL

What Mueller Did With Our Money
A View From The Beach
EBL

Transgender Madness Takes Its Toll: ‘Family Violence’ If Parents Disagree
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
EBL

Are You Ready for … JOE-MANIA?
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.25.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘No One Could Have Predicted This Tragedy’ (But It Was Predictable)
Dark Brightness
EBL

New Trouble for High-Tech Totalitarians
Dirt People
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.26.19
Proof Positive
EBL

It’s Very Simple
EBL

Three Scary Words
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending April 26:

  1.  EBL (26)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Honorable mentions to 357 Magnum and Dirt People. Thanks to EVERYONE for the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Public Beheadings in Saudi Arabia

Posted on | April 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Public Beheadings in Saudi Arabia

From the headline stack at Drudge:

Saudi Arabia teen beheaded just for sending WhatsApp messages about protests…

Kingdom puts crucified body on public display… 

Executions for sorcerers, homosexuals, mentally ill…

Just remember this next time someone tells you Trump is a fascist.

On the other hand, imagine how much safer Baltimore or Chicago would be if we used the Crown Prince’s policy. Probably wouldn’t take too many beheadings to get the tough-on-crime message across.

 

Category: Saudi Arabia

Three Scary Words

Posted on | April 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

“President Eric Swalwell”:

Former congressman Trey Gowdy blasted 2020 presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Friday for continuing to claim that President Trump is a Russian asset.
“President Eric Swalwell, that ought to scare the ever-living hell out of you,” Gowdy told “The Story with Martha MacCallum” while reacting to a clip of Swalwell on MSNBC.
The Mueller report published last month revealed that investigators did not establish evidence that the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia.
Swalwell seems to think otherwise.
“Here’s what we know. The Russians helped Donald Trump,” Swalwell said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber.”
“Sure, but to be clear you are no longer maintaining that he is effectively a ‘Russian asset,'” MSNBC host Ari Melber interjected.
“No, I think he acts on Russia’s behalf and I challenge him to show me otherwise,” Swalwell responded.
Gowdy accused Swalwell of playing politics.
“His last sentence is exactly the difference between a prosecutor and a politician. Prosecutors prove that you did something, politicians make you prove you did not. Did you hear his last sentence? ‘I challenge President Trump to prove that he did not do something.’ That’s what politicians do,” Gowdy said.

By the way, Marianne Williamson’s campaign now has about 87% of the 65,000 donors needed to qualify for the first round of DNC debates.

 

Category: Democrats, Election
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