one lonely outpost in the ongoing war on intellectually dishonest narrative cultivation
History, and our view/understanding of it tends to be a rather interesting phenomenon. Enter Orwell: “Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If is seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together.…But if you were alive during the war [WWI], …
Continue reading The History of the History of Our Times (UPDATED)
Another in the "First Post" series as published over at the legacy site yesterday. Enjoy: I know full well that most all of you are tired of this little game. The simple fact is: I don’t care. I really enjoyed the initial walk down memory lane as kicked-off by Mr. Alexander. So much so that I extended the game under …
Continue reading First (Promoted) Post – Power and Privilege
There are few out there that I deliberately make time to read every word with a very focused mind...mainly because they tend to impart a special brand of Top Shelf wisdom well above my pay grade. I used to be this way with the great Victor Davis Hanson back in his Works and Days period …
Continue reading BORROWED WISDOM: Political Elites Rarely Grow Liberty
As my own extension of the exercise I referenced in my last post, I went digging even deeper into my own blogging past and landed on my first pre-Ricochet post. This one was at a little start-up called RedState in 2006. Here is the reposting of it on Ricochet with the requisite added modern commentary …
Continue reading First (Pre-Ricochet) Post – General Conduct
Last week over at the legacy site there was an exercise into looking back at first posts as a member there. I took the opportunity to repost mine, from now a decade ago, with a little bit of modernized pre- and post- commentary. The following is that new posting in its entirety: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED – Marking …
Continue reading First Post – A Slightly Wider View of The Great American Mistake
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