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Leading the Way

Washington Reb has found its purpose, thanks to the serendipitous citation of the that Nat Hentoff quote about Committees of Correspondence, and Garry's reference to what we've been thinking about.  That would be to offer ourselves as Washington State's "Committee of Correspondence."

Well, one of them anyway!  The first to say it, I suspect!

Groups appointed by the legislatures of all 13 American colonies to provide a means of intercolonial communication. The first standing group was formed by Samuel Adams in Boston (1772), and within three months 80 others were formed in Massachusetts. In 1773 Virginia organized a committee with 11 members, including Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The committees were instrumental in promoting colonial unity and in summoning the First Continental Congress in 1774.  Answers.com

A modest resources list, for those of you who care to join in the fun -- and, if you're a blogger, let's start linking!  No one expects you to quit your job to master these materials.  I know I can't.  You take it in chunks.

Suggestion: if you take a hot topic, like, 'Who are these folks wrecking the American banks to make money and turn us into slaves?", well . . . . there's a research project for you.  You're not going to master it in a week.

Primary Materials:

David McCullough 1776, John Adams

Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws

John Locke's Two Treatises on Government

American Revolution

Founding a Republic of Virtue

History of the United States

Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution

Modern Library's Federalist Papers

The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification : Part One, September 1787-February 1788 (Library of America) (Hardcover)

The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part Two: January to August 1788 (Library of America) (Hardcover)

Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) (Hardcover)

The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) (Hardcover)

Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (Hardcover)

Secondary Materials:

Cato's Essays on Liberty

The American Republic, by Orestes Brownson

The Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner

America, by Walt Whitman

Democracy, by Henry Adams

Emerson

Frederic Bastiat

Library of Liberty Reading Lists

Medved's First Person American History Series

The Left pissed Alinsky all over your country.  If you want your country back, you have to start with spreading the word.  That means you have to formulate, sharpen, and apply, argument.

What are you waiting for?  Your Gramma to make you cookies?

 

Dudes Who Dug "Tully"

American Heart

Born November 30, 1835: An American Icon

Mark Twain was an American icon because without the help of a speechwriter, a teleprompter, a pair of fake Greek columns, and a larger-than-life broadcast screen, he could move an audience with his spontaneous oratory.

Mark Twain was an American icon because without using a ghostwriter, he could write from his own head and heart and wondrously transmit the American experience onto paper.

Mark Twain was an American icon because his travels abroad never turned out to be apology tours.

Drawing the distinction between those in the world who do "things because they have been done before," Mark Twain explained that "an American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before." Mark Twain believed in American exceptionalism. In fact, he reveled in it. Mr. Twain thought America was best and that the last thing on our minds should be emulating Europeans.

They sure don't make American icons like they used to.

Harold Witkov Thinks About Mark Twain on His Birthday

"An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."  How many Warm Fuzzy Liberals would be at home with that sentiment?  They spend hours and hours and hours suprressing innovation and individuality and liberty, a trend that can be seen with the NEA's Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky.  Alinsky wasn't an American.  He was one of those wormy little leftists that sprouted up all through the Sixties who couldn't keep his hand off his cock.  The only manly thing about Alinsky was the day he died.  As Christopher Chantrill said:

No wonder the liberals hate [Sarah Palin]. The whole point of public education, of business regulation, or rampant credentialism is to smother people like her before they have a chance to get anywhere.  Palin and the Future

The modern "liberal" is an undeveloped little creature who has not really done anything, but considers himself superior; who regards meddling in the lives of others as his prerogative, one that is forbidden conservatives; who will whine for a decade about anthropogenic global warming without ever questioning whether he's been lied to.  "Liberals" are Sinister Little Shits, far more capable of SS tactics than any Republican I ever met.  "Liberals" are America's teenage children, pissing all over the carpet while the parents work.  They are a problem.  The problem won't go away on its own.  They have to grow up.

At a terrible price.

Bernie Reeves outlines the liberal chimera in The Hidden Truth -- how we live in a "free" country where journalists and educators are cowards, allergic to truth.  Political Correctness is the most destructive weapon in the Leftist Arsenal.  It rules the workplace, litigation, and law enforcement.   Slowly, but surely, it destroys the American Psyche.  The fruit of our moral and intellectual flaccidity is a world where real dangers stalk, while politicians play with themselves.

And the voters fall to their knees.

I want my America back.

We'll get it back.

But at such a cost.

7 Stories Obama Doesn't Want Told

Eric Holder, ACORN, and Cloward-Piven Justice

Obama's Revolution

ReasonTV: Hollywood's Love Affair with Che

Joe Stalin: Pure Evil

Remembering the Victims of Communism

Obama's Two-Front Offensive

With the election of Barack Obama as president, the liberals have launched a massive, two-front offensive they believe will end in victory. They have judged that our public education system is so degraded that only a few Americans are left who even understand what a democracy is, and how the free market actually works. They are convinced that the majority of Americans are too frightened by the current recession to care about preserving the principles that made us the most powerful, productive and innovative country the world has ever known. In short, the liberals are reaching for victory because they believe that history now is on their side.

The speed of their offensive is breathtaking.

Herbert Meyer, Revolution

Bring up the Soviet Gulags, so meticulously detailed by Solzhenitsyn.  What is the response you invariably get from "liberals"?

Hitler.

Did you know Hitler -- a rightwing Christian, just like Glenn Beck and George Bush -- killed people?  Lots of people.  Never heard that before, huh?  Well, just say 'Stalin' and you'll get the Readers Digest Sex and the City version of World War II!  Almost as entertaining as a Michael Moore movie.  And just as flaccid.

An ACORN Moment

Via Wheat & Weeds, Climate Alarmists are Having Their ACORN Moment.  Only time will tell how all this plays out.  Oh, how I'd love to see the MSM get to the bottom of this.  Among us rightwing paranoiacs, it's standard stuff that global elitist reptilian alien atheist child molesters are using climate scare tactics to own and control.  It would be nice to see some vindication: Environmentalism is Just a Cover for Collectivism.

She also passes on this great video:

Over the Top?

Wheat & Weeds worries about the tone in time of war, et cetera.  We don't.  We think it's great!  Go, SNL!  ('Bout time, too)  From DougRoss:

The Milli Vanilli of Science: CRU E-Mails Unpeel the Warming Scam.

Al Gore AWOL as China Trashes the Planet

Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.…  What the CRU Scandal Tells us About Academia

I don't think I've ever seen Alan Caruba do cartwheels: CLIMATEGATE!!!  Take it easy, Bobbalooey!

Watering the Tree of Liberty, from our cousins at the Real Revo.  Also, make sure and see Conservative Tolerance, Liberal Hate.

From Gator, Another Woman Who Doesn't Know Her Place Gets a Taste of Liberal Tolerance

I Love You, Yes, But Will You Respect Me in the Morning? On 3 October 2008, she was nominated to replace Peter Mandelson as the UK's European Commissioner in Brussels.

The Totalitarians

 
Mind if I Kill Your Mother?

Bookworm makes a point we've been gnawing at for awhile.  Obama just isn't American.  He throws a baseball like a girl and seems ill-at-ease with a job I don't think he should have.

Read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution and you will see that the American system is structured so that government is subordinate to the people, not vice-versa. The government's sole purpose is to provide a functioning framework within which American citizens can act freely to exercise their "unalienable Rights ... among these ... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Liberty also extends to the nation as a whole. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are replete with examples of the Founders' absolute obsession with a free-standing national sovereignty. Indeed, the entire point of the Declaration of Independence is to establish America as a nation second to none.  Is Obama Anti-American?

That's what I was trying to get at in the Anti-Lincoln.  This man is not leading America toward Freedom, but away from it.  How deep runs the totalitarian virus in America?

How deeply entrenched is this totalitarian virus in our national culture? A column appearing yesterday in the Temple University press indicates that it is already an integral element of the curriculum of our schools. The column by a student named Josh Fernandez is a condemnation of the recent appearance at Temple of the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders who is under indictment in the Netherlands for defaming Islam, specifically for a fifteen minute film he made about Islam called “Fitna” which explains why so many atrocities have been committed (and are currently being committed) in its name. Under pressure from Islamic totalitarians, Europeans are already well on their way to outlawing free speech.  The Totalitarians Among Us

Ten Years of Fire

At Washington Rebel, we believe the Destruction of America is an Inside Job.

Community Organizing

Saul Alinsky and His Legacy

The NEA Recommends Alinsky Scripture

What is the NEA?

Classroom Bullies

The Democratic Party’s two evil co-conspirators in this systematic destruction of black childrens’ minds, dreams and futures are a labor union, the National Education Association (NEA), and what used to be regarded as a civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  Lowell Ponte, Unholy Trinity

Lawrence Sand: Outing the NEA

Uri Bezmenov: KGB Trained Ayers and Alinsky?

Say Goodbye To America Monday Newswhip!

Courtesy the Control Voice Institute

"The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it. What we also should stop to think about is the mindset behind this legislation, which is very consistent with the mindset behind other policies of this administration, whether the particular issue is bailing out General Motors, telling banks who to lend to or appointing 'czars' to tell all sorts of people in many walks of life what they can and cannot do. The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity. What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries -- the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for. ... The thing most associated with America -- freedom -- is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama's vision of the country and of himself. But do not expect a savvy politician like Barack Obama to express what he is doing in terms of limiting our freedom. He may not even think of it in those terms. He may think of it in terms of promoting 'social justice' or making better decisions than ordinary people are capable of making for themselves, whether about medical care or housing or many other things. Throughout history, egalitarians have been among the most arrogant people."  Thomas Sowell

So, you're born in America, a citizen of the best and bravest and coolest Republic in the history of the world.  It's fall, 2008.  What do you do?  Why, of course, you vote for a "candidate who refused to release his academic records, college transcripts, and a detailed original birth record."  You're not the least bit fazed that his "mentors and associates included a racist anti-American pastor and a former domestic terrorist who takes pleasure in literally stompingon the American flag."  Nah!  You're hip!  You're cool!  You're post-racist, whatever the hell that is.

And you're a dumbshit.  Either that, or you really aren't very faithful.

Say . . . I'd like to babysit your 16-year-old daughter.  You down with that?

Hell, she'd be safer than your country is.

Whip?

America's NEW Foreign Policy! Mopery, with Intent to Creep

 

I Kin Swat Flies! Ya Skeered?

Each day President Obama's blasé business-as-usual attitude toward Iran seems more out of touch with reality. Today's New York Times reports that the president "is coming under increased pressure from Republicans and other conservatives who say he should take a more visible stance in support of the protesters." But if you read on, it turns out "Republicans and other conservatives" are far from the only ones bothered by Obama's what-me-worry policy.  James Taranto, We're All Neo-Cons Now

Obamaworld: No "Change" For Iran!  What An Asshole!

Team Asshole Grapples with 'Tactics'  Even Reuters noticed!

Brutal Beatings, Bleeding Heads, and Other Moral Equivalence on the Streets of Tehran  This is a perfect moment for Jimmy Carter to say something really stupid.  In that department, he is our "best" ex-president!

The Ever-Vigilant, Always Perspicacious American Voter is Beginning to Nurse Doubts!  Must be measurable.  Reuters had to report it.  Hail, You Little Brown People!

The Echoes of Emptiness

Narcissus, Being Himself

The MSM has echoed the same submissive sentiment to Obama, abandoning all claims to even a modicum of journalistic integrity. Cursed for its deceit, the MSM says to Obama, "I give you power oe'r me!" Narcissus is from the Greek, Narkissos, meaning narcotic or benumbing. That is the effect Narcissus had upon Echo, and that is precisely the effect Obama has on the MSM. Like Echo, the MSM no longer has a voice of its own.

Robert Bowie Johnson has performed a public service in his Narcissus and Echo: Obama and the Mainstream Media.  His article contains a certain amount of optimism, in that he thinks, like my friend DAS, that this will play itself out -- to the detriment of its drugged participants.  I tend to be a little more pessimistic: call me a true conservative if you wish.  I believe that human nature is shrouded in darkness and must earn its light.  Unlike "liberals" and fundamentalists, I do not believe that the recitation of magic words gets you over the goal line.  I do not think, like Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer, that bitter rationalism is the answer.  Nor do I believe Biblical literalism is healthy.  Like Shelby Foote and D.H. Lawrence, I believe the novelist has more to say about life and wisdom than the scientist or the entertainment executive.

Johnson, like so many other pereceptive observers, observes Obama's emptiness:

Obama may be clever, as all Narcissists are, but he is not an enlightened man. The enlightened man seeks truth. Obama craves adulation, his essential narcissistic supply. His cleverness and charm operate in the service of his pathology's foremost commandment: See me in the same grandiose way I see myself. The intertwined artificial thicket of atheists Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Saul Alinsky blocks the essential light that comes down from above, "from the Father of lights, in Whom there is no mutation or shadow from revolving motion" (James 1:17).

Nuts! (The Academic Variety)

 

Knuckin' Futz!

In his essay/book review, A Huge Serving of Academia Nuts, David Solway observes that we have the opposite of the national chauvinism Robert Graves wrote about, and further observes that our universities have forsaken their primary mission: wisdom.

As a former professor and guest speaker on the education circuit, I have seen its ravages at first hand. If this mental infection is not checked, we may well find ourselves in an analogous position to that described by Robert Graves in Goodbye to All That. Graves records the carnage unleashed upon a nation by the misguided conduct and sentiments of Britain’s elite schools. In Graves’ day, the dilemma was a collective outbreak of national chauvinism; in our day, it is just the opposite, the betrayal of our own nation and culture.

Education, to put it bluntly, is neither jingoism nor treason. Scholarship must be disinterested, differing points of view should be presented and debated, strict research methods must be inculcated, and the mind needs to be trained to learn, judge, and think independently. Pedagogical influence is meant to be cognitive, not political. Bias, obviously, is humanly inevitable, but the work of the moral conscience in the act of teaching, which monitors our prejudices and proclivities and keeps them under relative control, is by no means to be scanted.