And here is The News from Yesterday to keep you up to date
Also, check out The Layfield Report, Breitbart, InstaPundit, and Drudge for more news
h/t to the Wombat Socho for some silliness on YouTube
Robert Stacy McCain shows us just how crazy Kate Hunt’s mom and those who are #FreeKate supporters are
And speaking of kooks, here is an update on another kook, Barrett Brown
It seems that Robert Stacy McCain is on a kook rampage as he posted about Glenn Greenwald
Pamela Gellar of the Atlas Shrugs blog is banned from England, and we have the face of the poltroon behind her banning
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Apparently the Westboro Baptists do not like Country Music. They are bashing Taylor Swift now
In addition to The Other McCain, there is news reported elsewhere
h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day
Also, I thank Mr. Hoge for mentioning me in his weekly link roundup
Here is the latest on the walrus/cabin boy as well
h/t to I’m a Man! I’m 41! for his article entitled Committee Rules Snooty IRS Witch Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right…
And here are some random musings from The Lonely Conservative Blog
Aaron Walker of Allergic to Bull has a new article on his latest dealings with the walrus/cabin boy
h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed on the case surrounding the murder of Trayvon Martin entitled A dream sidetracked by a case fueled by hate
The Bluegrass Pundit also has an article on the case against George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon Martin
And even Liz Harrison of Goldwater Gal is writing about the witness in the George Zimmerman trial
h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his Friday Fume
Tune in to Own the Narrative for some wonderful radio today. At 1:30 PM Eastern Billie Cotter and I will be interviewing Diane Sori and Joe Newby on the problems Conservatives are having with Facebook and an event that Diane and Joe are hosting on July 4. Then at 11 PM Eastern will be a wonderful episode of MatchCon. Come check us out and have a lot of fun.
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The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.
While de Tocqueville TALKED about American exceptionalism, the specific term was first used in 1929, when the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, disagreeing with Jay Lovestone of the Communist Party of America that America was so resistant to revolution because of the increasing strength of American capitalism, and the country's "tremendous reserve power" (a strength and power which he said prevented Communist revolution), called Lovestone's ideas "the heresy of American exceptionalism." In the 1930s, academics in the U.S. redefined American exceptionalism as befitting a nation that was to lead the world, with the newer United States ready to serve the older European societies as an example of a liberated future free from Marxism and socialism. More recently, socialists and other writers have tried to discover or describe this exceptionalism of the U.S. within and outside its borders.