Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism. P. J. O'Rourke. There is only one basic humanright, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born 14 November 1947) is an American political satirist, most often known as P. J.
Quotes[edit] Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. Modern Manners (1983)[edit] Modern Manners : An Etiquette Book for Rude People. Extracting Audio from Pictures. Three years ago, a survey team identified a staggering 569,148 time-based media objects on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University—that’s over half a million sound recordings, video recordings, and reels of film.
The earliest items documented in the survey report date back to 1893. However, that report doesn’t mention what might be considered IU Bloomington’s oldest time-based media of all. That’s not because we didn’t do a thorough job. Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing! Hidden in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures).
This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.
February 13, 2013 - WHITE LIBERALS TELL BLACK LIES ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS. Liberals ignored my book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama throughout the fall.
Now that I'm safely home from my book tour, they feel free to jabber on about their make-believe history of the civil rights movement with abandon. In the hackiest of all hacky articles, Sam Tanenhaus, the man responsible for ruining The New York Times Book Review, has written a cover story in The New Republic, titled: "Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people.
" MSNBC has been howling this cliche for a decade -- or, as MSNBC's Chris Matthews said of Tanenhaus' article, "a bold headline"! Being interviewed by a giddy Matthews -- who has no black friends, employees or neighbors -- Tanenhaus announced the startling fact that once, long ago, some Republicans supported civil rights! "In the 1950s, as I say in the piece you read, Republicans looked pretty good on civil rights under Eisenhower.
The rest remained not only Democrats, but quite liberal Democrats. Doubting Thomas. The controversy over David Barton's The Jefferson Lies (see "The David Barton Controversy," Aug. 25 issue) led Thomas Nelson to stop publishing the book (see "Lost confidence," Aug. 9)-but Glenn Beck's Mercury Ink plans to publish a new edition.
Beck wrote the foreword to The Jefferson Lies, and Mercury Ink's announced goal is to "publish and promote books and authors that Glenn is passionate about. " Mercury Ink partners with Simon & Schuster. A message to WORLD readers on the David Barton controversy. We report in our current issue—and plan to report again in our next—about a controversy between two groups of Christian conservatives (also see "Lost confidence," by Thomas Kidd, Aug. 9, and "Doubting Thomas," by Thomas Kidd, WORLD Magazine, Sept. 8 issue).
On one side are David Barton and his many readers. 'Lost confidence' The David Barton controversy. David Barton, president of the WallBuilders organization and a frequent guest on Glenn Beck's broadcasts, is one of America's most popular Christian history writers.
Liberal critics have long accused Barton of misinterpretations and errors, and readers of the History News Network recently voted a new Barton book, The Jefferson Lies, as the "Least Credible History Book in Print. " But now some conservative Christian scholars are publicly questioning Barton's work, too. Jay W. Richards, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and author with James Robison of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late, spoke alongside Barton at Christian conferences as recently as last month. Richards says in recent months he has grown increasingly troubled about Barton's writings, so he asked 10 conservative Christian professors to assess Barton's work. Their response was negative. War of 1812 naval relic still stored in New York shed. ALBANY, N.Y. – The upstate New York village that bills itself as the birthplace of the U.S.
Navy hasn't done much to preserve one of the service's oldest warship relics: the hull of a schooner that was the first in a long line of American vessels to carry the name Ticonderoga. The wooden remains of the War of 1812 ship are displayed in a long, open-sided shed on the grounds of the Skenesborough Museum in Whitehall. They've been stored there since being raised from the southern end of Lake Champlain by a local historical group more than 50 years ago.
You Might Be A Constitutionalist If... By Pastor Chuck Baldwin January 28, 2005 NewsWithViews.com More than thirty years as a student of American history, constitutional government, and the Holy Bible leads me to the conviction that the two major political parties in this country are equally culpable in stripping America of its founding principles.
In my opinion, both the Democrat and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., have zero fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and zero respect for America's foundational precepts. Goldwater campaign. Lincoln.