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Van Zant deciding who is up the task. Now that’s funny.
MAGA- they will burn it all down

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 5:33 pm By: Big Bob

Hooray for Florida and other places that are protecting consumers from Franken-meat.

The climate alarmists are up to other tricks like the left-liberal German government proposing big new taxes on real meat. Just wait for the Biden globalists to try to copy that.

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 6:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Let the market decide.
MAGA - to stupid to govern

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 5:31 pm By: Big Bob

There Bobbie goes again, reverting to racial comments. His original point was claiming the there were significantly different perspectives on the American Revolution between Brits and Americans. So I pointed out that the perspective in British history museums I had visited in the UK had a very similar perspective on the American Revolution as US sources. Then he said, Oh No, it was only books that counted. So I pointed out that the perspective of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 in a history book written by one of the most prominient British leaders of all time, Sir Winston Churchill was also very similar to that of American sources. So NOW, Bobbie wants an opinion by an AFRICAN SLAVE??????!!!!!! What does that have to do with ANYTHING on the perspectives of American and British sources about the American Revolution?????

I would point out to Bobbie, that when slavery was abolished in the British isles under Prime Minister Earl Grey, the British packed all of their former slaves off to Sierra Leone in Africa, so it would be difficult to find an opinion from a former British slave or their descendants on the subject. I have read books by two former US slaves, Frederick Douglass and another less famous whose name I have forgotten, and I do not recall any comments on the American Revolution by either of them.

Bobbie keeps graphing at straws, but his argument is bogus.

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 5:25 pm By: John Steed

Hum...Who's next? Thomas Sowell or Ibram X. Kendi? Hum

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 3:44 pm By: Van Zant

Since it appears my last comment was not posted I'll try again. JS - try a book not written by a white guy.
"Maybe from an author not on your preferred reading list?"

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 9:18 am By: Big Bob

MAGA - they'll even kill your goat, then tell you they met dear leader form N. Korea. MAGA has its first Howard Dean - Kristi Noem.

Washington - you have evidence of corruption? Please share.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By: Big Bob

How about an African slaves perspective? One key sentence from my last post was: "maybe from an author not on your preferred reading list?"

I can provide a title or 2 if your interested.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 5:38 pm By: Big Bob

What this really does is put most of the DACA illegal aliens on Medicaid by presidential directive from Biden. The reason is that Obamacare is a continum of programs and for those under a certain income limit, that puts them on Medicaid, which is totaly paid for by taxpayers. Few of the DACA illegal aliens will have an income to put them in any Obamacare category other than Medicaid.

In contrast, LEGAL immigrants are statutorially not eligible for Medicaid or any other welfare program for at least five years after arrival.

This is yet another outrage where Biden has by executive directive made illegal changes in laws passed by Congress.

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 10:42 am By: borderhawk

Overheard:
“Don’t show me the law, show me the judge.”
I've also heard it said: Never hire a lawyer from Washington,NC.

But, if you intended to do it anyway... do some research. Find out which lawyers that your Judge wines and dines with. It matters here... probably Everywhere!

And remember the great thing about small towns is this: IF you don't know what you are doing, then just ask someone, because they Know. LOL

Last thought: Why is it that none of the opinionated people here, give a darn about our corrupt local Govt? I think I know why, local govt is so corrupt that we citizens fear it MORE than our State or Federal Govts. Revenge and ignorance is popular among small minds in small govts.

"Give a person an ounce of power and you will quickly learn their true character!"

Whatever became of the public records requested of the Washington Housing Authority? They just thumbed their nose at ALL of us and have NO fear that they will be held accountable... no one is.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 4:03 pm By: Washingtonian

A book? How about "The Great Republic", a history of the United States written by former Britich Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill? If you bothered to read that, as I have, you will find Churchill's viewpoints on the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 very similar to American viewpoints.

As to the War Between the States, both the northern and southern versions leave out things. Both are politicized and always have been. Some on each side even objected to their side's slanting of the war, like Sherman who after the war objected that the war had not been about slavery and if it had been, he would have fought for the south.

The most objective viewpoints on the war are those from people in other countries who observered or studied it, like Sir Winston Churchill, who devoted a chapter in his book on US history, "The Great Republic" to the causes of the war. Churchill concluded that the main cause of the war was a rupture between two competing concepts of government that had existed since the founding of the county, between the concept of a powerful cental government espoused originally by Alexander Hamilton and represented in 1860 by Lincoln and the north, on one hand, and concept of limited government, originally espoused by THomas Jefferson, and represented in 1860 by Jefferson Davis and the south, on the other.

The north's narrative of the war being about slavery was also disputed by two contemporary observers of high stature. Novelist Charles Dickens, a leader in the British anti-slavery movement described the north's attempts to say the war was about slavery as "specious humbug designed to conceal their desire for economic control of the southern states." Similarly, Karl Marx wrote "the war is not about slavery, it is a war of economic subjugation by the north against the south."

Then there is British political philosopher Lord Acton, best known for his quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" who praised the Confederate constitution as being a great example of democracy that corrected the defects in the US Constitution.

As Churchill wrote, the south stood for limited government, something that is badly needed now. Those Jeffersonian concepts would solve a lot of what is wrong in America and in the western world. President Jefferson Davis, in his memoir, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" (another book you should read) pointed out that the principles of limited government were lost when the south lost the war, and he correctly predicted the continued increase in the power of the federal government that has occured since that time.

I can see why a big government advocate such as yourself does not want the limited government perspective of the south and of Thomas Jefferson taught. And it is amusing that someone such as yourself who does little but regurgitate the far left narrative would try to tell others to read different viewpoints.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 11:23 am By: John Steed

I stand by my post. To automatically disqualify is wrong. That's happened for too long in this country.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Big Bob