In a recent article about William Ayers, it is proposed that he is an upstanding professor now. There is no apology for what he did. There is no taking it back. As a matter of fact, he wears articles about the Weather Underground on the door of his office at the University. I ask one question - If you were a terrorist and felt that America was evil, where could you make the most changes to the country?
-Lady Colonel
Many know the history of the presidency of the United States, and in this know that the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. That fact alone gives a good hint as to where the party historically stands concerning race issues.
The Wall Street Journal this past Wednesday wrote on the "The Democrats' Missing History". Jeffrey Lord does a good rundown of the party's history, particularly what has been cleaned in it's official history. Richard Nixon had his 18 minutes of missing tape recordings, and the democrats have their 52 years of missing history. Read the article. See what their hiding.
-Colonel Steve
I saw these on Right Wing Nation. So appropriate for today.
Darryl Worley, Have You Forgotten:
Tim McGraw, If You’re Reading This:
I saw this article off of our Insight Broadband home page today. Some interesting truths embedded in there. Such as the economy might be heading for a big problem. However, what i see is the old Y2K survival fears finding a new outlet.
-Colonel Steve
The Louisville Historical League has announced the winners of their contest to name the Seven Wonders of Louisville. The top wonder is....drum roll please.....Churchill Downs. The rest in alphabetical order are: the Belle of Louisville, Cave Hill Cemetery, the Falls of the Ohio, the Olmsted Parks system, Slugger Museum and Bat Factory and Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
-Colonel Steve
You betcha! Retired Lt. Colonel Oliver North said as much at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention today in Louisville.
North recited the first part of several pop-culture references — such as “Britney…,” “Sex in the…,” and “Oprah…” — and the crowd of several hundred National Rifle Association members quickly fired back with answers such as “Spears,” “City,” and “Winfrey.”
“Now name a medal of honor award winner from this war (in Iraq),” North asked the crowd.
Few answered, which North said proves the bias of the mainstream media against the war in Iraq.
We all know our recent Pop history. A lot of us know our history of previous military engagements. But many of us don't know the very stuff Oliver North spoke of.
Is it totally the media's job to get this news out? No. But in the "old days", the media was proud to speak of the heroes of that day. Not now.
Point taken. With that in mind, here they are:
*DUNHAM, JASON L.
Rank and Organization: Corporal, United States Marine Corps*MONSOOR, MICHAEL, A.
Rank and Organization: Master-At-Arms Second Class (Sea, Air And Land), United States Navy*SMITH, PAUL R.
Rank and Organization: Sergeant First Class, United States Army
Find out more about these heroes at http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/iraq.html.
I dare the Courier-Journal to add this simple fact to their story. It can't be too hard for that crack media staff to find it out like I did.
-Colonel Steve
The Louisville Historical League is currently taking votes on what local folks consider the Seven Wonders of Louisville. Voters may vote at Louisville Mojo's link here.
First round of voting has been completed, and the 20 choices left to vote on are:
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Belle of Louisville, Bernheim Forest, Brown Hotel, Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany), Cave Hill Cemetery, Churchill Downs, Falls of the Ohio, Farmington Historic Home, Glassworks, Kentucky Center for the Arts, Louisville Slugger Museum, Louisville Zoo, Muhammad Ali Center, Old Louisville Historic District, Olmsted Parks (Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee, Central and parkway system), Louisville Palace Theater, Speed Art Museum, Waterfront Park and Waverly Hills Sanitorium.
In current voting, the Waverly Hills Sanitorium is in first place.
-Colonel Steve
According to OneNewsNow, there is a textbook, American Government (Houghton Mifflin) by James Q. Wilson and John J. Dilulio, Jr.that has been deemed too conservative for young minds to digest. Oh horrors! We certainly don't want to fill their minds with any thoughts that aren't steeped in liberalism.
And what, could possibly be too conservative? It appears that debating global warming is a no-no along with a differing view of "separation of church and state". Critics think the book is altogether too conservative.
I'm thankful for people such as the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, from Arizona who is not going to remove it from his schools.
-Lady Colonel
The folks running the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History may need to have some recurring training. Particularly in history and spelling.
Millions of people have paraded past the Tower of Time exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
But eleven-year-old Kenton Stufflebeam of Allegan, Michigan, is the first visitor to have caught a particular mistake there.
He and his family went to the museum during winter break.
Kenton noticed that the Tower of Time, which involves prehistoric time, referred to the Precambrian Era.
The Alamo Elementary School fifth-grader knew that its proper name was just the Precambrian, with out the "era."
He left a note with his concern. Museum officials wrote Kenton back last week, telling him he was right.
The boy notes that they misspelled his last name and hometown.
(HT: John J. Miller at National Review's Corner)
-Colonel Steve
Over the past couple of months, our church has been viewing The Truth Project. What has been enlightening to me are some of the details behind some common lies believed today by society. Details on things like the myth that the founders of the United States had no religious basis in forming our nation (versus the truth that there was a religious basis).
One other "truth" discussed is that, much like global warming, Darwin-based evolutionary theory discussions have squelched the freedom to discuss ANY other possible theory. Intelligent Design? Don't dare discuss it. Creationism? Just for religious "extremists".
I thought of all this when I saw the recent trailer for Ben Stein's movie Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed (movie website here). In the trailer, Ben mentions that today's science seems to be afraid to discuss anything else outside of Darwin's theory. If Darwin's theory is so factual and perfect, what exactly is their fear? Why silence every competing theory?
I must admit....I'm intrigued. The comments on the movie's blog intrigue me even more.
-Colonel Steve
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