Hillary Clinton’s History as First Lady: Powerful, but Not Always Deft

NY Times

 Bringing impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon
 in Washington in 1974.

  ... "She talks about championing women’s rights globally, supporting her husband during years of robust economic growth, and finding inspiration in Eleanor Roosevelt to stay resolute in the midst of personal attacks.

 

"What Mrs. Clinton leaves out about her time as first lady is her messy, sometimes explosive and often politically clumsy dealings with congressional Republicans and White House aides. Now, the release of roughly 6,000 pages of extraordinarily candid interviews with more than 60 veterans of the Clinton administration paints a more nuanced portrait of a first lady who was at once formidable and not always politically deft." ...

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/06/27/hillary-book-tour/

The End of Feminism

Bruce S. Thornton

 

"California recently passed a law requiring that sexual encounters between students in universities and colleges can proceed only on the basis of “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement.” Failure to resist or to ask the partner to stop the encounter can no longer be taken as consent.

...

"But the main problem with the California law is the corruption of feminism that it represents. When it comes to sex, the old feminist claim to equal treatment based on a woman’s equal capacity to control her sexual choices has been transformed into an old-fashioned Victorian notion of women as weak creatures who need to be protected from sexually feral males, and who lack agency and thus should not be held accountable for their choices.

...

"But as the years passed, many women began to discover that there are indeed differences between men and women and their experiences of sex. Liberation did not lead to the sexual utopia of carefree and cost-free pleasure, but to the guilt, regret, and humiliation that follow being used as an object for somebody else’s transient enjoyment.

"The response to these ill effects was to create rules and codes designed to eliminate the negative consequences of sexual freedom.
...
"The demand for personal freedom without accountability contradicts the foundational philosophy of our republic. The right to liberty is not the right be absolved from the consequences of one’s actions. Taking that responsibility is what makes one worthy of freedom and equal to others who likewise must be accountable for their actions."

GenderBen!

A Civil War In The Olive Garden Parking Lot

NPR: Daily Picture Show  "Think about where you are, this very moment — and imagine all that has happened there before now.

"When I was in college in Tennessee, for example, my neighborhood was nicknamed "The Fort," because that's exactly what it was during the Civil War. How weird to think that where soldiers once fired cannons, students today are doing keg stands. And actually, I wouldn't have been shocked to see Civil War soldiers milling around the neighborhood; re-enactments were — and are — huge in the area.

"That interests photographer Gregg Segal. "I travel a lot on assignment for magazines and had been increasingly disturbed by the growing sameness of America," he writes in an email. "Wherever I traveled, I'd see the same strip malls with the same Olive Gardens and Jamba Juices and Panera Breads, etc., and I wanted to say something about the erasure of the past and the homogenization of the landscape.' "
...
"Through Hodge, Segal met his cast of characters and, over the course of five trips to the South and Gettysburg, created this series of, for instance, soldiers camped out in front of Domino's."

Below: The Massaponax Baptist Church was used as Grant's HQ in 1864

Massaponax Church, Virginia "Council of War": General Ulysses S. Grant examining map held by General George

 G. Meade. LOC Summary: Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign,

May-June 1864. Date Created/Published: 1864 May 21

 

Massaponax Baptist Church in 1864. Below: the church location today thanks to Google Earth
 

This may stress the importance of historic preservation.

Report: No ‘Global Warming’ For 215 Months, plus: Caruba on the climate change mafia

Freedom Outpost   "The numbers are in and the verdict is that there has been no global warming for 17 years and 11 months, according to satellite data.

"Satellite data prepared by Lord Christopher Monckton shows there has been no warming trend from October of 1996 to August of 2014 — 215 months. To put this in perspective, kids graduating from high school this year have not lived through any global warming in their lifetimes."...
...
 "But meteorologists have been predicting a weak el Niño this fall and winter, which would warm ocean waters and potentially put an end to the "pause" in global warming.

" 'The Great Pause may well come to an end by this winter," said Monckton. "An el Niño event is underway and would normally peak during the northern-hemisphere winter. There is too little information to say how much temporary warming it will cause, but a new wave of warm water has emerged in recent days, so one should not yet write off this el Niño as a non-event.' "...

The World's Climate Change Mafia Meet in Peru

 

... "The lies being inflicted on Americans include Obama’s “war on coal” that is shutting down coal-fired plants that affordably and efficiently produce the electricity the nation needs, along with the six-year delay of the Keystone XL pipeline. Add in the thousands of Environmental Protection Agency regulations affecting our manufacturing, business and agricultural sectors and the price we are paying is huge.

"At its heart, environmentalism hates capitalism." ...

 

Candy Crowley, Who Propped Up Obama at 2012 Debate, Out at CNN

Newsbusters 
"Candy Crowley, who aided Barack Obama in a 2012 debate with Mitt Romney, will be leaving CNN, according to the network. In a memo, network President Jeff Zucker announced, "...Candy has let us know that she has made the decision to move on..."

"On October 16, 2012, Crowley famously moderated a debate between the President and Mitt Romney. After Obama insisted that he quickly labeled the attacks in Benghazi terrorism, the journalist interjected, "He did, in fact, sir, call it an act of terror." No, Obama did not. Even the Washington Post's liberal fact checker noted this.

"A Media Research analysis noted that Crowley knew Obama's statement to be false" ...

 See more...

 

73 years ago: the death of the battleship Arizona (UPDATED)

USS Arizona: Before Pearl Harbor, the mightiest ship at sea

Tomorrow marks the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor. The two most famous Battle Ships in our history lie there today, the Arizona which at one time was hailed the mightiest battleship in the world and the Missouri where the final surrender of Japan occurred. Here is some history on the Arizona which was never decommissioned and is the final resting place of the 1,177 crew members that perished when her main magazine exploded as a result of a direct bomb hit. As a result of this attack and another earlier one on an Italian Battleship in Taranto, Italy, it was determined that the Battleship was no longer the ultimate Naval Capital ship and the Aircraft Carrier became the ultimate capital ship during WWII. Today, nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines are the ultimate capital ships of a nations navies.

Esther Ross, of Prescott, was 17 when she traveled to New York City to

 christen the USS Arizona on June 19, 1915. In the weeks leading up to

 her trip, every night after school she would practice christening by breaking

 syrup bottles filled with water against a fence in the back of her house.

She and her parents stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. 

 

  Hat tip to Theodore Alton McElroy at Guardian Eagles

 

UPDATE: The Ship That Weeps For Her Dead

http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/the-ship-that-weeps-for-her-dead/

WHITE CHRISTMAS SONG IS ‘RACIST': Black Singer Slammed by Liberal Xenophobes for Singing Christmas Song

Clash Daily  "Posted on December 5, 2014

"I joked the other day via Facebook that White Christmas would soon be considered a racist song.
"Well … here it is. Check it out you creepy a** crackers!

TPNN – These Christmas bashing progressives have taken their hate-filled paranoia to a new level with their attacks against country singer Darius Rucker, who happens to be black. What did Rucker do that drew the hate of the liberals? He sang White Christmas at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
Liberals immediately took to Twitter to display their idiocy and attack Rucker.

 

And here of course is Liberal Chick‘s reaction:

 

Liberal Chick  Public Figure · 3,864 Likes

 

Share my video if you think ‪#‎WhiteChristmas‬ shood be banned from America forever. ‪#‎CuntryMusic‬ ‪#‎Raycistic‬ ‪#‎Feguson‬ ‪#‎HatersGonnaHate‬ ‪#‎FiteTheWhite‬ ‪#‎DariusRucker‬ ‪#‎LiberalChick

 

Update: Dare we even discuss this business?

Hat tip to Al Thompson, Torrance, CA

December 1864 in the American Civil War

 Pictured: Union entrenchments before Nashville awaiting Hood's attack. General Pap Thomas beat him to the punch, routing the Confederate forces and destroying Hood's army and his career. Dec, 1864

Civil War December 1864: Attempt to burn Springfield Armory, Soldiers' Fair, Battles of Nashville, Fort Fisher and Sherman's March to the Sea
...
General Sherman sent President Lincoln the following telegram on December 22:
“To his Excellency, President Lincoln,
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
W. T. Sherman
Maj-Genl”
Sherman’s latest victory followed that of Maj. Gen George H. Thomas who, by December 16th, had routed the Confederate Army of Tennessee, effectively ending the war in the Western Theater.

Marching Through Georgia - Historic Images and Song  "Musicians (unconfirmed): Byron G. Harlan and Frank C. Stanley, 1904"

American Civil War December 1864

Dec 1864 US Civil War timeline

December 4, 1864	Battle of Waynesborough	Georgia
	March to the Sea
December 6, 1864	Salmon P. Chase named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
	Salmon P. Chase
December 6, 1864	Battle of Stoney Creek	Virginia
	Siege of Petersburg
December 13, 1864	Union army captures Ft. McAllister	Georgia
	William Tecumseh Sherman
	March to the Sea
	Fort McAllister
	Fort McAllister
December 15, 1864 December 16, 1864	Battle of Nashville	Tennessee
	John Bell Hood
	George Thomas
	Nashville Campaign
December 21, 1864	Sherman occupies Savannah	Georgia
	March to the Sea
	William Tecumseh Sherman "Battle of Nashville" painted by Howard Pyle in 1907

 

Here comes Rev. Al

 

The Police and Grand Jury Can't Win! The Media, Politicians, and Agitators Care Only About Feelings Not Facts  ... "And so the whole thing here just perpetuates itself, with no solution, no understanding, none of it.  And now there are interested parties waiting to feed off all this, such as the Drive-By Media, 'cause this feeds right into the soap opera script. And then the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world who are able to profit -- and not pay taxes in the case of Sharpton -- off this kind of thing." 

Bernie Sanders: Evidence that the Senator from Vermont is a Big “C” Communist

Noisy Room  ... "But is Bernie Sanders really being honest? What if he is actually more of a communist? A believer in class struggle? Of crushing the free enterprise system?
Does it matter? The man is a US Senator. His vote could decide the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice, or ratify a gun banning treaty with the United Nations. He is even seriously exploring a presidential run on the Democratic ticket. Damned right his real views matter.

"Firstly, I want to present evidence that Senator Sanders is not truly an Independent. That he is in fact, a member of a semi-secret political organization. Secondly, I want to prove that that organization, in spite of labeling itself ‘socialist,’ is in fact, a communist grouping – with all the negative connotations that it implies." ...

 

..."My contention is simple. Despite using the word “socialists” in its name, DSA is, for all practical purposes, a communist organization. Because most DSAers are also active Democrats, or Green Party activists, the “socialist” label doesn’t meet the degree of resistance, that the more honest description “communist” would.

"DSA works very closely with three of America’s leading communist groups – the Maoist leaning Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the “old guard” Communist Party USA, and the CPUSA spin-off Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism." ...

How Many Members Of The 111th U.S. Congress Are Self-Declared Socialists?  (2009-2011)
"A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA]."

The Democratic Socialists of America Fall newsletter commented on the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson this way:

Go to the link above if you question the context of this excerpt. Until then, if a DSA member gets authority over the police force in your area, think hard before going into law enforcement.

 

Ferguson Protestors In Denver Cheered When Car Hit Four Police Officers, Chant “Hit Him Again”…

And the police are the bad guys?

Weasel Zippers

 

"Not all that surprising considering the race hustlers have whipped the protesters into a anti-police frenzy.

"Update to this story."

 

DENVER – The Denver police union says protestors marching against the Ferguson grand jury decision cheered and chanted “hit him again” after four officers were hit by a runaway car.
Several other police sources tell 9NEWS crime and justice reporter Anastasiya Bolton that there is evidence as well as DPD witnesses to the fact that some students cheered after the officers were struck.

The Denver Police Protective Association condemned the cheering in a statement released Thursday.
“These actions are not only reprehensible but quite possibly the most disturbing thing this Association has ever heard,” it read, in part.

Next time you're being mugged by some strong-arm bandit, call Al Sharpton.

NYC: Communist Group Hands Out “Chant Sheet” To Garner Protesters, Equates NYPD With KKK…

Victor Davis Hanson: War Clouds on the Horizon? A large war is looming absent preventive American vigilance.

VDH's Private Papers

 

... "The subsequent appeasement of Britain and France, the isolationism of the United States, and the collaboration of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany green-lighted Hitler’s aggression — and another world war.

 

"We are entering a similarly dangerous interlude. Collapsing oil prices — a good thing for most of the world — will make troublemakers like oil-exporting Iran and Russia take even more risks.

Terrorist groups such as the Islamic State feel that conventional military power has no effect on their agendas. The West is seen as a tired culture of Black Friday shoppers and maxed-out credit-card holders.

 

"NATO is underfunded and without strong American leadership. It can only hope that Vladimir Putin does not invade a NATO country such as Estonia, rather than prepare for the likelihood that he will, and soon."

"The United States has slashed its defense budget to historic lows. It sends the message abroad that friendship with America brings few rewards while hostility toward the U.S. has even fewer consequences. ..."

Emphasis mine, TD