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• DownsizeDC.org
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• Lots of essays and other stuff I find endlessly fascinating. Don't tell me you Kant!
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Blogs I like!

• VoxPopoli
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Quotes

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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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• "(Jimmy)Carterism is a new postmodern pathology in which smug piety, dressed up in evangelical new-age Christianity, pronounces from afar moral censure on the more righteous party — on the theory that acting well but not perfect is worse than acting badly."
• - Victor Davis Hanson
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• "There is a virus sweeping the world. It infects opponents of the Bush government, sucks their brains out through their eyes and turns them into gibbering idiots."
• - George Monbiot
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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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Books I'm Reading

• The Bible, of course.
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Recommended Reading

• 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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• Lew Wallace, Militant Romantic by Robert Morsberger
• More than you probably ever wanted to know about my favorite ACW figure.
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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 Irrational Atheist by Vox Day
• LOL funny in spots, but a deadly serious takedown of Dawkins, Harris, et al. I've always said Vox is the thinking man's Anne Coulter - a rapier wit with a taste for blood and a talent for wordplay. Only not quite as attractive.
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• Desperate Engagement by Marc Leepson
• Lew Wallace and Jubal Early at Monocacy. Good read, nicely done.
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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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• Choosing To Be Catholic by Wm. J. O'Malley, S.J.
• For the first time or once again. As concise and accessible an introduction - or reintroduction - to the Faith and the Church I've seen yet. Highly recommended - and not just for Catholics!
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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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• General James Longstreet by Jeffrey D. Wert
• The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier
• Better than Stonewall? You betcha.
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• America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
• Painful reading given the current economic climate, but enlightening.
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• Lincoln and the 2nd American Revolution by James McPherson
• Several essays in one short volume by my favorite War of the Rebellion historian.
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• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1915-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
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