Some interesting, idle, and ultimately useless statistics about Presidents of the United States and their military service:
–Most common service branch: Army. Fifteen former Presidents served in the U.S. Army, almost three times as many as served in the second most common branch. Six former Presidents served in the Navy. Nine served in various state militias. [...]
This is a picture of the Normandy American Cemetery.
The cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach, and it’s the final resting place for 9,387 American soldiers, including Medal of Honor winners 1LT Jimmie W. Monteith, BG Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and TSGT Frank D. Peregory.
I don’t care what the French say–that patch of land in Colleville-Sur-Mer is American [...]
“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the [...]
Via Squeaky, we learn of the latest push to turn Britain’s public school pupils into pliable drones: advocating the elimination of subject-based learning, and replacing the three Rs with lessons on civic duty and energy-saving. Apparently, subjects like reading, language, and math are “middle class lessons”, and outdated.
You can’t learn advanced concepts without first acquiring [...]
So it looks like the Man From Hope & Change is going to be the Democratic frontrunner.
I don’t care much for Obama, for reasons that have nothing at all to do with his skin color. I don’t like his politics, which are just Marxism Lite repackaged in airy rhetoric. He’s the Rorschach Candidate, ready [...]
A Soldier
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust.If we who sight along it round the world,See nothing worthy to have been its mark,It is because like men we look too near,Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere,Our [...]
“Ain’t nobody going that fast through my state, son.”
“What about General Sherman?”
“[It] is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately [it] will bring this nation to a fatal conflict.”
That’s Georgia State Representative Seaborn Roddenberry in 1911, arguing for a Constitutional Amendment against…miscegenation. The [...]
“Where they burn books, they will in the end burn humans as well.”
-Heinrich Heine, Almansor:A Tragedy (1821)
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