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Puckett, then a first lieutenant, was wounded multiple times during the battle fought at Hill 205 during the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, which occurred during the Korean War. He had told soldiers to leave him behind once he was incapacitated, but two privates first class, Billy Walls and David Pollock, got him to safety. “I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,” Puckett would later say for an oral history project. �...

Share This: Today, President Trump’s term ended. He boarded Air Force One for the trip to his home on the island of Palm Beach. During his farewell speech to supporters at Joint Base Andrews, the former president revisited his accomplishments in office and predicted the economy will surge if taxes and regulations are not reimposed. He wished the incoming Biden administration good luck. But Trump also hinted that he may remain in politics saying, “We will be back in some form.” This desire...

The Print Collector / Getty Images It is often all too easy to forget that significant historical figures - those at the forefront of new ways of thinking, whether that be Marxism or feminism - were individuals with likes, loves and lives of their own. Such is the case for the so-called mother of feminism, Mary Wollstoncraft (1759-1797), who history often mischaracterises as an overly serious moralist. It is this misconception that the Countess of St Andrews, Sylvana Tomasellis new book brillia...

Said if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. we live in a monarchy or live under a dictatorship. the votes we are about to take concern the rule of law and our democracy itself. let us not forget the words of john lock, so influential to the founders of our republic. john lock a millennia ago said this: wherever law ends tier rei tyranny begins. this impeachment asked whether we are still a republic of laws. as our founders...

Bankrupt america. big government leads to less freedom. reality is ilhan omar is calling it a human right. a basic human right. we have to listen to the language. the reality is that human rights are natural rights as described by john lock are not dependent on government. and they are guaranteed by god. what she is really talking about a legal right, which is dependent on government and can be revoked. if you just look at our friends in hong kong and iran, they are under government given rights...

Style liberalism is obsolete. >> if you look at whats happening in los angeles where its so sad to look and whats happening in san francisco and a couple of other cities which are run by an extraordinary group of liberal people. i dont know what theyre thinking. >> the question, i guess -- >> i dont mind that he doesnt know who john lock is or john stewart mill who are great beacons of liberalism. whats sad is he doesnt understand is we are the product of western liberalism, that the post cold w...

Those amendments had to be adopted by, what, the states. and its often said while, quote, unquote states rights, i call it federalism, is a problem because you look at it pre-civil war, its the states that fought the states and i know its the union but in the end it was states fighting states and it was states that passed the post civil war amendments, abolishing slavery, conferring equal rights formally and due process on former slaves. when you look at the declaration of independence, theres n...

Law, but it only gives the laws to the jews, see? theyre the ones who have to bear to burden, right? whereas, in christianity, there are no courts, judges, no legislatures appointed, so you still have government, you have to have government, people are made in their nature to live under law, but now there has to be a limit on the law. the law cant mess with your religion or your conscience more generally. you have a right to exercise your religion as you wish, and john lock more than anybody els...

That john lock that is so important that goes along with the birth of universal monotheism. mark: that is universal monotheism? >> well, it starts with the jews and the christians. so if you just think of abrahams gods covenant with abraham, i will be your god, and you will be my people, and this will be a blessing to all the peoples of the earth. you know, the jews have a hard deal. as you know, right? because theyre the chosen people. turns out thats hard duty, you know? lot goes wrong when yo...

On their backs, nor others booted and spurred them to ride them by the grace of god. men cannot be ruled the way horses can be ruled, because theyre not the same thing, and the laws of nature, nature is a very rich word, and it means that each kind of thing has an essence of its own, i is entitled to protection and the essence.hat go with that mark: this is crucially important, isnt it? were really the only country that was founded on these ideas, on these principles, on these truisms. as a matt...