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Letting Our Lives Speak: Some Ways to Fight the Culture Wars Traditionalists of whatever political stripe seem to have given up on winning the culture wars waged over the last five decades or so. The past year in particular has brought setbacks and defeats: the removal or desecration of statues of American heroes, schools erasing the names of some of these same heroes, classics removed from English literature reading lists, and professors and writers attacked for defending the heritage of history and literature. Pessimists say the war is lost, that we should run up the white flag and acknowle...

The day the music died  Don Mclean   We live in troubling times. The American election is over but the popular belief that it was fraudulently engineered shows no sign of abating. The evidence that a vast conspiracy has occurred, particularly in several swing states, is convincing for a significant portion of the electorate, and the complicity of a censoring media apparatus is undoubted. Even reputable conservative thinkers and writers, while deploring the current state of political events, seem to take cover by speaking ill of Trump, or repeating Democratic Party talking points, or doing t...

Mikel Hehe…”Monkey see, monkey do…” is an old -schoolphrase that describes this type of human behavior. I just thought it would be fun to imagine the first home with the pets did it just to see how long it would take for the “Jones’ ” to come along. If there was anyone in the neighborhood who was that snarky…. The Rev Kev “Fake US leg band gets pigeon a reprieve in Australia” The government’s position of destroying this bird if it was from Alabama had people in disbelief here. We have millions of migratory birds that come from Siberia, India, Japan, China, Korea and god ...

>> we were tussling about the calamity of haiti, the upheaval in the government, and we wanted to speak to then president bush, and a number of people came in the room to -- if you will, congressman, to humor us, to comfort us, to suggest that they were the ones that would make the ultimate decision, and in essence, we were polite. we listened. we smiled. we indicated we wanted to see the president of the united states of america. we did not move. it was finally recognized that we had to meet with the president of the united states on this vital issue. stories not run up, stories tha...

so the alternative voice historically can't get a voice and they can't get one now. and anybody, look, the classic case is noam chomsky who for something like dirty years was publishing his luck with south end press in boston which can -- consisted of two guys and a pipe breaker. he never got reviewed. i mean it was like a total blackout. the united states is not interested in criticism and frankly, de tocqueville said this very well in 1831. he said that americans live and an of self congratulation and if you bring up any problems they immediately get various. that has only gotten w...