TEN YEARS AGO TODAY:

Evergreen:

OPEN THREAD: It’s here for me and you.

“WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?”

 

THE DECLARATION AS THE SIGNERS UNDERSTOOD IT: I’ve read more analyses  than I care to remember of the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence, and I have to say Rod Martin’s “The Christian Worldview of ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'” does a fine job of explicating key phrases as all but a couple of the signers — Jefferson and Franklin — likely understood them. And even TJ and Ben had to speak in the language of the rest of the signers. And all of them understood those inalienable rights to be characteristic of every man, not just Christians,

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Flashback: Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw Defend Dan Rather, Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.

Evergreen:

DOWN THE DEMSOC MEMORY HOLE:

A PEOPLE BUILDING TOWARD THE STARS HAS NO TIME TO BECOME BIG BROTHER:”

We are living through a civilizational tipping point, and almost no one is naming it properly. So I will.

Where we come from, where we’re headed, and why a chunk of the PayPal Mafia is changing the world for the better in the most literal sense of the term.

Where we come from.

World War II birthed the Europeanist then globalist project, with an originally noble intent: never again. But that project was eaten away from within by a deeply anti-civilizational matrix—the dissolution of nations, cultures, concrete attachments in favor of an abstract, interchangeable, desk-manageable man.

And to make it go down easy, it leaned on ideological vehicles: a wokism that functions as a substitute religion for a West that’s learned to be ashamed of itself. Not necessarily a coordinated conspiracy—more a convergence of forces that all hate the same thing: the free, rooted, self-proud nation.

The result: half a century of managed decadence, packaged as progress.

Read the whole thing.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

More:

Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. Now, one of the reasons they didn’t force him out is bc their next two in the line of succession were an AG, who also had a blackface scandal, and a Lt. Gov. named Justin Fairfax who had faced sexual assault allegations and fast-forward, just recently murdered his wife. So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn’t have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don’t offer a template for that.

But Virginia Dems do offer a template of a cushy life after politics, no matter the offense.