The planned courthouse in Chattanooga is in the new “Greco-Deco” style Really the perfect one for a new American century The striking boldness of Art Deco, but with the connection to tradition and the Classical spirit our Founders molded America with, the combination of which creates a striking impression of grandeur that refuses to any longer be hidden under a bushel If this century is to be ours, this is the style for it, much as Georgian and Palladian architecture were the perfect forms for their day. This is not just a return to beauty, but a symbol that the damning chains of equality and humility enforced at bayonet point that have so long held us are being broken and will not be reforged anew And if such breaking of them doesn’t happen, we have the world of the Obama library to look to

It's national suicide that off-shoring hasn't been addressed yet. Our biggest tech companies are being hollowed out by Indian CEOs moving American jobs to India. It's an order of magnitude worse than the hollowing out of our manufacturing base which destroyed small town America and it's happening right before our eyes.

Clifford Dowdey describes all of this well in his book in The Great Plantation: “Washington’s Mount Vernon suffered similarly, and Jefferson at Monticello became so poor in his old age that public subscriptions provided for his subsistence. To repeat, running a plantation was a full-time job, and in the struggle for the democracy which Americans accept so casually as heritage many aristocrats impoverished themselves. “In the traditional revolution, the aristocrat was destroyed by the people; in the American Revolution the Virginia aristocrat destroyed himself, and the people, with little of the liberty-love attributed to them later, profited by it. Yet, in the current timidity about admitting any flaws in the leveling of democracy, the “people” have to be made the heroes of everything. This has resulted in confusions regarding the case history of the composite American--especially in regard to America’s original colony, and the Southern states that derived from or were influenced by it.” Overall, In it, he notes that the founding father generation of Virginians that grew out of the Virginia Golden age focused less upon planting than they probably should have, but also that they did so largely because of a concern with public service

This isn’t quite right. Debt was a problem for planters who didn’t adapt, but not really the cause of the Revolution in Virginia. Sovereignty was For one, the Stamp Act was a big deal in Virginia because it had to be paid in specie, which there was practically none of in the colony. They used tobacco as currency instead, and so the specie requirement was an immense hardship and imposition on everyone in the state Second, it’s true that tobacco prices had crashed, which was an issue. But the planters had survived that before, namely during the last quarter of the 17th century, during which they actually became wealthier The bigger issue was that the state was settled by thus point, so they couldn’t just engross more land as their farms went too infertile to grow tobacco. They had to either 1) produce a lower quality leaf, or 2) switch to grain production. Most chose 1 because it was easier and entailed no real change in the pace of life. The more provident ones, like Washington, chose 2 and made a great deal from selling it locally or exporting it to the West Indies Adding to the infertility problem was that this generation of planters both wasn’t great at farming and, as a result of the times, e def up being more focused on public service than planting. American estates required more direct supervision than English estates(while also being roughly twice as profitable to own if managed correctly), so this was a problem for them, particularly as tenants only returned about a tenth as much income in America as Britain So the planters found themselves making less from farming, particularly if they stuck with tobacco, while not adjusting their lifestyles In the past, they had been able to do this because they also were their own merchants. One son would be a trader in London, and handle the family imports, another would manage a trading operation back home selling imports to small farmers in exchange for tobacco, which was sent to the brother in London. Others ran the plantations. The family owned the ships. This worked well and kept them profitable in hard times. Gradually this ended in most cases (though not all, as shown by the Stratford operation) because of British trade policy. Thus the planters ended up in debt to British merchants, though generally, they did not think they would be able to get out of debt with the revolution, except for a scheme by which they tried paying back their debts using continentals. And those trade regulations bring us to the final point. Sovereignty. During the French and Indian war, they had learned that the British did not see them as equals, and instead despise them as colonials who are not fit to lead themselves or set their own policies. This infuriated them. It even infuriated the planters like George Washington and Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, who were not deeply in debt because they had diversified their operations. Four more than the stamp tax, the existential question of sovereignty was British attempts to cut them off from the western lands. They needed those western lands because their farms were growing infertile for anything other than grain to be grown upon. That meant that overtime they were way of life would fade and they would not be able to revision other sons or buy land which they could rent to tenants. That fight over sovereignty, infuriated them, and, compared with the wig principles they had gradually develop developed, helped to lead the revolution Debt and related financial woes were a problem. But the much bigger problem was that a class of men who had spent generations developing their habit of command, were being told that they could no longer rule themselves. This they could not abide by. Those who ended up broke, ended up so largely because of the time they spent in public service rather than focusing on planting. Debt was related to that but more outgrowth of it than its cause The below book has a great deal of information on this

Savages aren’t noble The Indians were, as Jefferson described them, merciless savages and it’s good that their evil and godless culture was wiped from the continent by the inexorable march of the Anglo on his path to Manifest Destiny That anyone thinks otherwise is a testament to the subversion we’ve experienced

By “cultural annihilation” he means pagans were forced to stop eating each other and sacrificing captives to demons When the Spanish arrived, the Aztecs were sacrificing so many prisoners they were running out of place to put the skulls

The fact that an "unhoused person" can vote at all is an indictment of our system With the exception of Franklin, all the Founders supported some variation of property restrictions on voting, as the idea of some "unhoused" schizo determining the course of the republic is ridiculous Voting is a somewhat abstracted form of stewardship of the national prosperity through determining its course and direction. Obviously, only those who can steward their own lives, as shown by the stewardship of wealth, particularly property, should be able to have a hand in stewarding the fate of the nation The property rules that generally existed with the beginning of the republic effectively screened out the bottom half from voting...which today would be the ~47% reliant on some form of welfare or another That we have gotten away from such a concept is the reason why our nation is increasingly a disaster-plagued economic zone jammed full of human detritus that washed up upon our shores

It's actually not unfixable If you are willing to enforce order, to use the cane and gibbet to enforce and maintain standards in a public way immediately after the commission of these crimes, the problem goes away "Jail" is not a punishment for these types and doesn't fix it, nor does a stern talking to or whatever But force does, and fixes it quite quickly

The career of Light Horse Harry Lee, from the book "Lee Chronicle": "In 1781, worn out with the fatigue of six years of active service, he obtained a furlough and, happily, was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He then paid a visit to the Northern Neck and a few months later we find him married to the heiress of Stratford. Harry Lee was at this time but twenty-six years old; a classical scholar and gifted orator, a veteran of the Revolution, an officer of renown, and now master of one of the largest estates in Virginia. He had been fiery and impetuous soldier; he was soon to become a hot and partisan in politics, and to make warm friends and bitter enemies. "The people of Westmoreland hastened to honor him, and he embarked on a political career as spectacular as his life as a soldier had been. "He was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress of 1786, and two years later to the Virginia Constitutional Convention where he brought all his eloquence to bear in urging the ratification of the constitution. Beveridge has drawn a colorful picture of him as he appeared at this period of his life: “'A young man, thirty-two years of age rose, and standing within a few feet of the chair, was recognized. Six feet tall, beautiful of face, with the resounding and fearless voice of a warrior, Henry Lee looked the part which reputation had assigned him. Descended from one of the oldest and most honourable families in the colony, a graduate of Princeton College, one of the most daring, picturesque, and attractive officers of the Revolution, in which by sheer gallantry and military genius he had become commander of a famous cavalry command, the gallant Lee was a perfect contrast to the venerable Pendleton.' "From 1789 to 1791 he sat in the Virginia Legislature. At this time, when he was nearing the high tide of his career, he suffered great loss, for in 1790 his young wife died at the untimely age of twentysix.26 In the effort to assuage his grief he plunged deeper into politics and the following year was elected Governor of Virginia, at a time when that office was second only to that of President of the United States."

They also revelled in the idea of murdering civilians, including women and children, in the name of unleashing freed slaves upon the South The delight of William Lloyd Garrison after Turner's Rebellion, and love of types like Thoreau for John Brown--after Brown tried to murder white families all over Virginia by turning the Old Dominion into a Haitian-style hellhole--did much to harden Southern opinion against the North By and large, the bloodthirsty abolitionists were far more savage than the slave owners they wanted to murder, particularly those in Virginia Most of them were descendants of the radical Puritans, and were members of the Unitarian Church, which grew out of the Puritan Church, by the time of the War of Northern Aggression. Or they were socialist 48ers imported from Germany

“To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was obligated to do better. Lee believed that the more one surmounted the baser passions of human nature, the more one approached the divine, the more one successfully imitated Christ, the more one fulfilled one's duty as a Christian gentleman. It was a hierarchical understanding that fit his background and upbringing and that he saw expressed and experienced in the reality of nature, social classes, the army, and the church.” -Robert E Lee on Leadership by Crocker III

“I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.” -Ian Douglas Smith

I am absolutely aghast. The Bible museum in DC has the Dead Sea scrolls on loan from the state of Israel. As part of this loan agreement, Israel required that the museum remove the term “BC,” as in “Before Christ,” to refer to the years in the exhibit. They are mandated to use CE because they find the name of Christ so offensive. “Judeo-Christian” values are a myth. There is no such thing. Israel only uses the term to manipulate Christian America into doing what they want.

Well of course. McConnell’s fortune (her family’s shipping empire) is deeply tied in with the People’s Liberation Army Navy and CCP generally Surely this economic reliance on Red China hasn’t colored Mitch’s stances on such matters as the Trump tariffs or opposing Red China generally…