It's pretty easy to choose between Ian Smith (recently slandered in his New York Times obituary) and Robert Mugabe, whose "Zimbabwe" is part of Jimmy Carter's shining legacy.
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I haven't thought this through, but this sort of Confederate apologetics sounds like a petulant spouse trying to justify divorce:
The Gettysburg Address was brilliant oratory, but it was also political subterfuge. As H.L. Mencken pointed out, it was the Southerners who were fighting for the consent of the governed and it was Lincoln's government that opposed them. They no longer consented to being governed by Washington, DC. Lincoln's admonition that government "of the people, by the people, for the people" would perish from the earth if the right of secession were sustained was equally absurd. The United States remained a democracy, and the Confederate States of America would have been a democratic country as well. Lincoln's notion that secession would "destroy" the government of the United States is also bizarre in light of the fact that after secession took place the US government fielded the largest and best-equipped army and navy in the history of the world up to that point for four long years.
From lewrockwell.com via the wikipedia entry for Paleoconservatism. I once leaned toward the 1980s pre-internet sort of paleoconservatism with its then-excellent magazine Chronicles and Pat Buchanan's autobiography. I left them when I discovered they're shot through with Jew-hatred.
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Greg Popcack has a devastating takedown of Gary Will's recent screed in support of abortion. Hat tip: Amy Welborn.
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What do Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois, the Illinois Disciples Foundation and Champaign County Health Care Consumers have in common? A commitment to continuing the sexual abuse of underage girls:
From 3 to 6 today Planned Parenthood will be giving away free emergency contraception at the Illinois Disciples Foundation at the corner of Springfield and Wright on campus.
EC is a special dose of ordinary birth control that can prevent pregnancy if taken within 5 days of unprotected sex, contraceptive failure, or sexual assault. EC prevents prevents pregnancy and has no effect if a woman is already pregnant. Getting EC ahead of time is a great way to back up your birth control just in case.
No age restrictions on free EC!
No money, No hassle - Just free EC!
Emergency Contraception provided by Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois : (217) 359-8022
For more information:
Champaign County Health Care Consumers
(217) 352-6533 - allison@healthcareconsumers.org
www.healthcareconsumers.org
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey
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