Thursday, December 04, 2008
A good prophet is one who is wrong.
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- Name: hoosiertoo
- Location: Clinton County, Indiana, United States
I'm a fat, furry Catholic who likes motorcycles and beer and wastes inordinate amounts of time reading and discussing theology, philosophy, history and politics. And motorcycles.
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- "I've always considered the predilection of islamicists for offing leftard pseudo-artistes to be their most endearing quality."
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- "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- ~ Samuel Adams
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- "Che is dead. Mao is dead. Lenin is dead. All the good socialists are dead. Be a good socialist and go jump off a bridge."
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- "What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?"
- - Kevin Haggerty
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- "There is a Law over the law, and neither duty nor expedience is an excuse for complicity with evil."
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- "In America, they have a feast to celebrate the arrival of the Puritans. In England, we should have a feast to celebrate their departure."
- - G.K. Chesterton
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- The Bible, of course.
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- The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
- The ties that bind - Revolutions and their consequences in America, France and Russia. Very nicely done.
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- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- Don't let the title throw you. Much to like here.
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- The Civil War and Reconstruction by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald (2nd ed, 1961)
- Simply superb. I couldn't recommend it more highly
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- Crucible of War: by Fred Anderson
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
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- Washington's Crossing David Hackett Fischer
- A breath of fresh air after Bicheno's Rebels and Redcoats, which pretty much sucked. How's that for a review? The appendices were every bit as fascinating as the main subject. Bravo!
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- America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
- Painful reading given the current economic climate, but enlightening.
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- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1915-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
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