Daily Archives: Monday, July 20, 2015 @ 17:25

The David Barton legend rolls on …

David Barton, bona fide pseudo-historian, now is a victorious constitutional lawyer, too. Warren Throckmorton, who unearthed this gem, says this: My point isn’t that Barton is responsible for the false things people say about him (although in Beck’s case, he … Continue reading

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Theology-related quote for the day

Sooner or later, truth will come out and pulpiteers who are uninformed buffoons will be exposed. Why not just presume that someone intelligent will hear your stuff and might even google it? William Thornton Thornton eventually blows it by adding … Continue reading

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When Dwight Eisenhower was a liberal commie

Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, loathed Dwight Eisenhower with a passion. He was, in Welch’s view, a “conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy.” Even William F. Buckley, who hated Eisenhower’s socially liberal and fiscally conservative … Continue reading

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When Barry Goldwater was an extreme right-winger

One way of illustrating how insane the Republican Party has become over the past decade is to compare it to the right-wing ‘extremists’ of a generation ago — to Barry Goldwater, say, whose 1964 defeat is regarded, still, as a … Continue reading

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The Will to Power

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities §367   My kind of “pity” — This is a feeling for which I can find no adequate term: I … Continue reading

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