We are not seeing it clearly yet om th fruited plain but the US economy is growing incredibly fast, and the good news is that as the whole thing matures, the workers will benefit more than the plutocrats. Yjis is really good. He’s won me over on Greenland although I’m glad he’s ruled out force, In general Europe hs FA for a year and the FO part is accelerating don the track.
In truth we are seeing e4xactly what we saw in World War II, Europe conserves and believes in scarcity, America charges ahead believing in abundance used efficiently. Frankly its in our blood, without that we wouldn’t have crossed the Atlantic, the Alleghenies, the Ohio Valley, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, or gone to th moon half a century ago.
In truth all we needed was a leader with vision to match our own. An the wisdom to remember what General Patton taught us:
“Take not counsel of your fears”
The General also reminded us of one of the oldest of American Mottoes:
“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
This is, I’m pretty sure, AI but it limns the problems ni Cali, but in truth in all the quasi socialist jurisdictions. So take it for what it is worth, and it matters, maybe a lot.
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Home, one of my friends moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa for a job last weekend. She won’t be the last.
What were you doing a year ago yesterday? Watching 47 take office I’ll bet. Seems half a lifetime.
So, I suspect you’ve seen some very ugly footage from a Baptist church in Little Mogadishu err, e excuse me, Minne4apolis. And while I wish she hadn’t held back but simply told us how she felt, her comments are both right and knowledgeable.
As we listen to all the bushwa from the terrorist left about free, I wonder how the forgot so much of the first amendment. You know:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It seems to me that their right to the free exercise of religion was rather trampled, as was the right of free exce3rcise of th prss to many independent journalists, and mot of the protest are decidedly not peaceable assemblies.
In any case, I’ve been reading the constitution since of these idiots parents were an itch their daddy (if known) had, and nowhere does it state that you may impede federal law enforcement as it enforces federal law.
Megan is correct, the polls are own a bit, but I wonder if its not people like me that have simply had enough of handling these terrorist with white gloves, and why aren’t some of the fraudsters already sitting in federal jail. Didn’t take President Autopen long to get all the J6 grannies locked up.
If the current federal law enforcement can’t get it don, fin, invoke the Insurrection Act, declare Martial law, put troops in charge,and try the traitors including the like of Don Lemon, in military tribunals. Bet the polls would go up, and in any case, f e don’t handle this soon, it’s gonna spread.
It’s commonplace to say that the graveyards are full of indispensable men, making the point that there are no indispensable men. That is basically true and yet there are points in history where few, if any, man could have carried the main character energy other than the one we remember. One example epitomizes this, would have America won its independence when it did without George Washington? I strongly doubt it.
Casey Chalk witting in The Federalist about a fortnight ago doesn’t think so either. Something we should remember is that the American colonies, almost from their founding, were essentially outposts of English freemen who mostly governed themselves according to the Common Law. This was pretty much unique even in the First British Empire. The Revolution was more like the Second English Civil War than anything else, and the lineups, often right down to the names were the same as the first. It was true in the third of what we call the Cousin’s Wars, the unpleasantness in 1861-1865. Will there be a fourth? Perhaps as Old England once again divided into London against England. One hopes not for the English Civil War and the American Civil War were the worst wars (in casualties) in thir respective countries histories.
So let’s have a look at what Casey has to say.
No one looms larger in the story of our nation’s struggle for independence than George Washington, who today seems almost mythical.
He does indeed. So revered that to this day, he remains the senior officer of the United States Army, and even his Ancestral home in Northamptonshire , Sulgrave Manor which was restored and is maintained by a joint English American trust to honor the man whom George III referred to as “the greatest man of the age”.
Next year marks the much anticipated semiquincentennial celebration of our nation’s founding, when 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, severing themselves from the British Crown to form a new body politic. Certainly the Fourth of July will, rightly, serve as the high watermark of our national festivities.
But in truth it was not simply the signing of that document that makes 250 years such a significant memorial, but everything that transpired in that fateful year: the British evacuation of Boston in March; the Americans’ disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island in August; the American counterattack in New Jersey in December. And as Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough’s best-selling book 1776 records, no figure looms larger in all of these events than George Washington. As much as 2026 is America’s year, we would do well to remember that it is so in large part because of that one remarkable hero.
A Man of Unequaled Character and Calling
A Virginia planter and veteran of the French & Indian War, Washington in the summer of 1775 assumed leadership of the Continental Army, a position he told his wife Martha he had “used every endeavor” in his power to avoid. Yet he was a man of duty, and also someone who recognized that his previous military experience and leadership abilities made him ideally suited to command a “volunteer force of farmers and tradesmen” pitted against the “best-trained, best-equipped, most formidable force on earth,”
This was the man who, amongst all his other great accomplishments started the American tradition of Crossing frozen rivers, marching barefoot through the sno to kill our country’s enemies, on Christmas Day. As his friend, Light Horse Harry Lee (the father of Robert E. Lee, whose plantation became Arlington National Cemetery eulogized him:
Our movie this week is Midway, a Hollywood rendition of the Battle of Midway roughly six months after Pearl Harbor, following the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, and the Battle of the Coral Sea, which relieved the threat temporarily to Australia. Unusually, like for instance The Longest Day, it is accurate history as well. In Herman Wouk’s words, the unsupported attack of the three Torpedo Squadrons without support, gave a timeless snapshot of American valor. H is correct. TORPRON 6 from USS Hornet had one survivor from the airmen of the squadron, Ensign George Gay of Valparaiso, Indiana. The other torpedo squadrons were hit almost as badly. This is one of my favorite movies, as most of the one we share here are. Rnjoy.
This was the battle that stop the Japanese offensive. It’s often called the turning point but that is slightly oversold. The turning point of the war included Midway but really consisted of a threefold tuning point: Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, Stalingrad in the Soviet Union, and The Second Battle of El Alamein, in North Africa. All three ran in parallel that fall, and as Churchill said. we never won a battle before them and never lost one after.
We’ve often said that the changing of the guard happened as FDR walked from the USS Astoria to HMS Prince of Wales for Church Parade during the conference which gave us the Atlantic Charter, the basis of the Anglo-American special relationship. Midway was the start of the American control of the world’s oceans.
I really like Emma, one if whose video we’ll check out today. If I understand correctly, she and her husband are both British veterans, Royal Navy, I think, now living here. In this she speaks of five seminal gifts America has given the world. They are well chosen, we’ll speak of them more after the video. Let’s start.
She’s not wrong about the Constitution but there are precedents. The concept of the consent of the governed was new, at least in its broadly based iteration. The Roman Republic had similar underpinnings, but citizenship was very narrowly designed. whereas in America, while not universal by any means, it was usually a quit modest property requirement. The idea was that a citizen should have skin in the game.
Beyond that, as David Starkey often says, the America an Revolution was the only revolution that ever succeeded mostly because it wasn’t. It was a revolt of the citizenry. What came our of the Constitutional Convention was there English government, reformed. It was very much indeed like what Luther and Cranmer had in mind with the Reformation, the Church reformed, not new schism. And remember, as Dr. Starkey reminds us, by 1776, the American colonies had been self governing for 150 years, part of the English heritage. No other colonial people ever successfully became independent, except the refugees from the new US who went to Canada, th convicts in Australia, and the New Zealanders all with English antecedents. In many ways, what e have given the world are simply regifting the English heritage with new accents.
Federalism also has antecedents, also in the Church, where it is called subsidiarity, stating that every question should b resolved at the lowest level possible.
The rea; difference is we wrote it down, ink on parchment, and we stuck to it. American government today, minus the cretinous bureaucracy abs the NGOs we refer to as the deep state, is much like the British government in the post restoration and Georgian period, modified to an elected President chosen indirectly by the people. England has changed much, first in the Reform Act of 1834, and then again during Blairs Prime Ministership, and not for the better.
She’s right about American manufacturing as well. Henry Ford did perfect it. But it’s antecedents go back the the 1795 Springfield musket designed by Eli Whitney although closely based on the French Charleroi musket, and many things produced in the nineteenth century such as Colt and Winchester firearms. What helped Ford was that in th later part of the nineteenth century was that screw threads had become mostly standardized with th adoption of United States Standard (USS) and National Pipe Thread (NPT) both of which we till use.
The airplane is pretty self explanatory and well known, but it should be noted that the modern world really was born when the airplan met the assembly line in World War II America, those 1000 plane raids, and then the feeding of Berin for more than a year by the joint US/UK Berlin Airlift unleashed the promise of the airplane finally.
I seem to remember that before their was ARPANET there was DARPANET, a subset including ls them a dozen Universities, Like Stanford, Purdue, MIT, and that this is where Ray Tomlinson invented Email (although not the full system as we know it. As she says, th internet like most good thing was a joint British American venture.
She does a better job than I could on the culture and what it all means so I’ll let her.
This is also from Emma and its on one of the places where dad and I really came together. Till the day he died, he would stop to watch planes fly over, and the Air Force Museum fascinated him (me too).
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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