A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
Eleanor Hamilton
Tweet of the Day
@jonathantasini It's not an election year. Stop making ludicrous comparisons.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 16, 2017
@NatureGuy101 @GOP Crackpot bullshit. There may be some fringe alt-right wackos who accused Obama and Clinton of treason, but the GOP opposed their policies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 16, 2017
@Fackingfulcans So you understand the VA hospital system is the poster boy of socialized medicine? Live while you can on a waiting list and then die.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 16, 2017
To Trump From Putin With Love #BondTrumpBond— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 16, 2017
Image of the Day
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My Greatest Hits: May 2017
My irregularly-published Journal format continues to draw decent pageviews, including yesterday's post, which has already hit #3. I've noticed an uptick to readership, particularly year-over-year, although Drudge isn't worried; my daily readership could probably fit in a standard classroom.
Taxation is Theft
The Moral Challenge of Slavery and Confederate Emancipation
Not the history you were taught in school. Among other points:
- Northern abolitionists did not necessarily support full citizenship rights of freed slaves. including open migration to the North or Western territories. Lincoln, among others, entertained the notion of resettling freed blacks back to Africa or elsewhere.
- The Emancipation Proclamation was really designed to encourage slave rebellions in lightly-held plantations and collapse of the Southern economy. Of those who did encounter Union troops, many were gathered into a variation of concentration camps, poorly supplied and vulnerable to disease.
- There was evidence that as state economies diversified, including those of the border states, state support of slavery was dying. Moreover, there were more anti-slavery societies in the South, and prominent Southerners like Robert E. Lee opposed it,
Choose Life: Big Sister, Little Sister
Political Cartoon
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
Amy Grant, "Takes a Little Time"
