My latest at PJ Media:
Instead of dealing with the issues, Harrison, who as a Major General in 1811 won the Battle of Tippecanoe against a force of Shawnee Indians, was portrayed as the humble war hero, “Old Tippecanoe.” His handlers trumpeted him as an ordinary man with simple tastes, content with a log cabin and a jug of hard cider. To this the Whigs contrasted a deeply unfair caricature of incumbent President Martin Van Buren as an out-of-touch, champagne-drinking, cosseted aristocrat who had spent public funds on lavish furnishings for the White House. The Whigs held rallies, passed out hard cider, staged marches, and generally made the 1840 election into a party celebrating “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” (John Tyler was Harrison’s running mate).
There is much more. Read the rest here.
owensgate says
Mr. Spencer: Very informative article; history is so necessary to know, and so predictive when it is. It’s a shame our youth are so astonishingly ignorant of it.
b.a. freeman says
that astonishing ignorance is deliberate, OG; in the 19th century, horace mann started the movement for public education, but from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, john dewey drove the development of public education. mr. mann wanted everybody to have the same ideology (*his* ideology), but mr. dewey thought that “socialization” was more important than any data or techniques that could be taught:
i believe that we violate the child’s nature and
render difficult the best ethical results, by
introducing the child too abruptly to a number of
special studies, of reading, writing, geography,
etc., out of relation to this social life.
i believe, therefore, that the true center of
correlation on the school subjects is not science,
nor literature, nor history, nor geography, but
the child’s own social activities.
– john dewey, in “My Pedagogic Creed”, published in 1897.
“social promotions,” anybody? see http://www.scragged.com/articles/sticking-it-to-the-mann for more information (the entire series of articles from which this one is taken is eye-opening). john dewey had – by *far* – the greatest effect on public education in the u.s. than any other person, including horace mann. silly things like math, science, history, and literature are less important than making sure than making sure that the next generation made good little workers for the elites who would employ them and The State, whose citizens they would be.
if we don’t get education vouchers, the coming of the USSA is inevitable.
owensgate says
I think step 1 is to get the Feds out of the “Ed Biz”. I’ve really, REALLY tried to find the Federal “Department of Education” in our Constitution, and I cannot find it. Maybe there shouldn’t be one? D’ya think?
DazzleMe says
+1 owensgate
Walter Sieruk says
It’s sad to see what an old feeble, weak minded man Joe Biden actually is.
Whats; more than sad but literally traglic is if that weak and feeble minded old man would, by hook or by crook become President of the United States .
For that would be tragic for the American people as well as tragic for America , all of Western civilization but Biden ,as,President ,would be viewed with joy by the Islamic world.
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk says,
“It’s sad to see what an old feeble, weak minded man Joe Biden actually is.”
Yes, and what the DNC is putting him through could be considered to be elder abuse…
vcragain says
Compared with trump – who is “young, vibrant, full of decency, truth & a principled human being” ??? Hahaha ! those who have been fooled by the slickest con-man out of NYC in decades are simply too stupid to recognize they are falling into his trap – he is a total cheat, liar & all-round disgusting POS, nothing quite like him has EVER managed to become president ..he didn’t even really want the job, just the fame & fortune he imagined he was getting by being in the race at all ! …Bush Jnr with crony Cheney managed a lot of suspect stuff, but there is nothing quite so revolting as the current occupant of the WH. Every decent human knows what he is, you can see him from a mile off….how can you debase your own character by allowing him to pull you into his chicanery ? A LOT of people are going to be wondering that in future years when they finally admit they were VERY, VERY wrong !!!
john smith says
True what you say about Trump, “every decent human knows what he is.”
It is also true that every decent human would denounce antifa, but not Joe Biden,
A vote for Biden is a vote for evil.
James Lincoln says
Vcragain,
You have laid out your personal case *against* Pres. Trump.
Please lay out a similar case *for* former VP Biden…
curious george says
john smith says
True what you say about Trump, “every decent human knows what he is.”
It is also true that every decent human would denounce antifa, but not Joe Biden,
A vote for Biden is a vote for evil.
………………………………….
+1
Homeland Security Creates National Center for Countering Human Trafficking – Media Run Away (Literally)…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/20/homeland-security-creates-national-center-for-countering-human-trafficking-media-run-away-literally/
What Biden/Harris support or close down this Center?
gravenimage says
Is vcragain looking forward to Biden overturning the “Muslim ban” on day one, imposing the teaching of Islam in the schools, and installing Muslims at every level of government? These are far more salient issues here than is his estimation of Mr. Trump’s personal character.
curious george says
When President Donald Trump returned from Walter Reed Hospital, where he was being treated for COVID-19, he landed on the White House lawn in Marine One, walked up to the White House, scaled the steps, and waved from the balcony. It was a beautiful scene for tens of millions of Americans who had spent days in prayer for their president.
The media reaction was beyond hysterical. Some said that Walter Reed had destroyed its reputation by taking in a sick patient and returning him healthier. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin sought to defund the hospital because it had done its job. Angered by his triumphant and quick return to the White House, they said the scene was reminiscent of dictators.
Trump’s Greatest Accomplishments Are What He Hasn’t Done
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/21/trumps-greatest-accomplishments-are-what-he-hasnt-done/
Bezelel says
we’re supposed to elect him to see what he plans to do to us, reminds me of the pelosi deal. I can’t even imagine the mentality of those who would vote for him. He is a man of substance, an unmentionable substance and he is full of it.
One man says
Amen
b.a. freeman says
“… can’t … imagine the mentality of those who would vote for him.”
—
i can. i know a young woman who was raised as a conservative, but turned leftist after she attended university. she is an engineer, but her critical thinking skills are confined to her field; they are *never* applied in any other part of her life. sad to say, she is like the majority of people in the u.s. today, and the only way such people will ever learn the truth is in the re-education camp to which they are sent for not being supportive enough of The State once the left takes control of the nation.
Brian Hoff says
Fake evidence by than far rightwing. Nut job.l There is no evidence that laptop belong to Hunter they illegally release it before election day.
Reziac says
Biden already acknowledged that it’s his laptop. But because he didn’t pay the bill, it became owned by the repair shop (as abandoned property). The FBI has said they now have possession of the laptop. And of course, there’s this:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/18/hunter-biden-allegedly-demanded-laptop-back-a-day-before-story-broke-via-an-attorney-repair-shop-owner-shows-email-985957
Also, one theory goes that the FBI sat on it because they thought it would give them leverage over the presumed next president. Ooops.
Westman says
Nice try, Brian. Stay tuned, the FBI does have the laptop and it does contain emails from Hunter. It doesn’t actually matter who owned the laptop, the data can be verified by data scooped up by DHS. You do realize that every email that you, Brian, have sent anywhere was parsed and stored? Or have you forgotten Edward Snowden’s reveal?
The media is doing everything it can to keep this matter hidden until after the elections – Hunter is not the problem, it’s Joe’s allowing his Vice Presidential influence to be hawked by Hunter and his quid pro quo(with taxpayer money) to get a foreign prosecutor, who was going after Hunter, fired.
curious george says
“Last week, the New York Post began running a series of exposés expanding the public scope of Biden family corruption based on material from a laptop retrieved from a Delaware repair shop. The computer, suspected of belonging to Hunter Biden, was first found by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who then turned its contents over to the authorities and the Post.
Days later, the diligent reporters at the Post began publishing its contents. They broke the internet with earth shattering revelations and not only blew back the curtain on the Biden family’s corruption but also exposed Big Tech and mass media pushing everything in their power to prevent the “October surprise” from undermining their preferred presidential candidate’s campaign.”
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Joe Biden’s Latest Scandals
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/22/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-joe-bidens-latest-scandals/
wpm says
Hunter Biden,s ,lawyer asked for the lap top back when the news broke on it a week ago. Hunter Biden,s lawyer asking for the return of Hunter,s forfeited laptop is proof that it was his. There is nothing “illegal” about releasing the information on it. The shop owner gave the laptop to the FBI on or around Dec.of 2019 ,and a copy to the Presidents personal lawyer around August 2020.Why the FBI did not share the information with the President during the impeachment hearings ,with the the information on the computer about Russian deals Hunter was in ,or who is “Mr .Big” mention who take was 50 percent of Hunters salary (could that be daddies take on his help in getting it done for his junkie son overseas deals)?
mccode says
Please, everyone, read the article linked here.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/21/bombshell-statement-biden-insider-claims-he-was-recipient-of-the-email-says-he-witnessed-joe-hunter-discussing-deals/
curious george says
Thank you for the link.
It seems that Mr. Bobulinski’s life may be in danger, as he is implicating the Chinese Communist Party:
“What I am outlining is fact. I know it is fact because I lived it. I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family. I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter Biden. The reference to ‘the Big Guy’ in the much publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden. The other ‘JB’ referenced in that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother.”
Now the left will do everything in its power to isolate, discredit and destroy Mr. Bobulinski.
DazzleMe says
First thing I thought—this man is in a world of danger!! So right that left will do everything possible to destroy this mans credibility!
gravenimage says
“Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has said many times that he and his coreligionists plan on destroying the Constitution and replacing it with the horrors of Shari’ah law.
He hopes that Joe Biden can help him with that.
DazzleMe says
Absolutely, gravenimage! And Biden will at that!
vcragain says
There is no such animal as ‘Antifa’ – it’s a made-up label, nobody ‘belongs’ to it since it doesn’t exist & is just a convenient label for anything ‘not trump’ ! So does that mean that trumpies are ADMITTING they are FASCIST ? It might be useful as an ‘anti-fascist’ label since most of us in the world ARE anti-fascist, but what does that have to do with people who follow this site – are you all admitting to being Fascist also ? I’m not sure that anybody actually WANTS to be labeled as a Hitler-type or Mussolini-type do they ? If you do, why on earth is that, please explain ! When I think about this subject & WHO it is that actually run around screaming about their white rights, all I see are a bunch of pot-bellied, bald, bearded, red-faced hysterical morons with the mistaken idea that THEY are the choicest humans on the planet. As a white woman I can tell you I get a strong puke reflex on watching them parade with their flags & guns…yuck, yuck, yuck, please go away !!!
James Lincoln says
vcragain says,
“There is no such animal as ‘Antifa’”
Apparently House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not get the memo.
Back in August 2017, she condemned antifa violence in Berkeley.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170829224007/http://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/82917/
gravenimage says
+1
DazzleMe says
I do beg your pardon mam’ I’m a white female as well and since ANTIFA doesn’t exist—who pray tell is burning these American cities down????
gravenimage says
This is ludicrous–Antifa did not even start in the US, but in Europe. The idea that President Trump invented it is ridiculous.
Then, from Antifa’s actions it is clear that despite its name it uses fascist tactics itself.
Then, note that vcragain gets a “puke reflex” upon seeing the American flag–quite telling. By the way, I’m a white woman, and my reaction on seeing the flag is not my wanting to vomit. This says more about vcragain than it does about white women in general.
DazzleMe says
Thank you—gravenimage!
b.a. freeman says
hello, troll!
as a child in the 1950s and 1960s, i was taught that nazism and fascism came from the far right. if we look at western countries in the late 19th century, however, we find that socialism was *extremely* popular, and that the most popular socialists wanted the “smart” people to runs things. it made sense, because of course the “smart” people knew the most, so they would be the best ones to run things. and in order to make *certain* that the “smart” people would run things, socialists wanted The State to take control of everything, so that what the “smart” people said would have the force of law.
in the u.s., these folks were the progressives; in germany, they were the nazis (hello – national SOCIALIST party!), and in italy, they were benito mussolini’s fascists. unlike communism, the other branch of socialism, which killed all the leaders in *every* field and replaced them with Party members regardless of their ability in the field, the fascists (here i include nazis) nationalized some industries and left others alone. apparently, they figured that it was more convenient to leave people alone until the Party wanted something from them, at which time the secret police were quite effective. if U want to see a classic fascist nation today, U need look no further than china.
so, vcragain, do U have any proof that *anybody* posting here is a fascist? if so, why not post the evidence? if U have evidence that antifa is “made-up,” why not present evidence that arguments *for* its existence are false? name-calling is the argument of a 5-year-old, and were it not for leftist “education” (indoctrination) and propaganda (legacy and social media platforms) organizations, it would have as much effect.
DazzleMe says
Well said BA Freedan! Name calling is beneath us as well!
andrew mckendrick says
I(s there a warning here for Old Joe? . Harrison died within a month of taking office.
wpm says
So every person in your opinion who is not voting for Trump is really” pro-Antifa” an organization that is “anti-Fascist ” but does not really exist ??Trump is a Fascist because of what? Give us examples of Trump being a fascist besides calling people in the press and MSM “bad names” ,letting state governors enforce their own rules on law enforcement yes he is a big fat orange man ? Who are those people looting, burning stores, rioting in the streets dressed in black marching with “Antifa” flags and anarchist symbols ? Who are these people traveling from state to state spreading anarchy under the “Antifa” flags posters ,symbols? Who are the baseball bat swinging ,brick throwing, gasoline lighting, happy arsonist ,mobsters dress in black, who are these morons carrying ” Antifa” flags as they spread mayhem threw blue cities on both coasts? Biden is in the basement he will not come out and condemn rioting “Antifa” people who are causing billions of dollars of damage in “Blue Cities”.
wpm says
Not all Biden voters are violent “Antifa” supports it is obvious ,they are not bad people, they should not be condemned .They are being mislead by the MSM that turns a blind eye and deaf ear to the fact Biden is a “place holder” candidate who cannot answer simple questions on what is his policy is, or how he will change this country in any constructive matter. His “handlers” will replace him after he is elected that is why the Democrats in the Senate are dusting off and looking over the rules of the 25 Amendment .
gravenimage says
Agreed, wpm–not all Biden voters are bad people. They will wind up doing harm to the US and the West regardless, though.
DazzleMe says
+1 wpm
Rarely says
I’m still amazed that these two Yahoos are the best candidates a country of 330,000,000 people could find to run for President. I guess nobody else wanted it.
Walter Sieruk says
During that first debated between President Trump and Joe Biden it became very obvious that Biden is politician who talks out of both sides of his month. The side he speak with depends on the audience.
As debate serves as an example on national television, during the debate, Biden said that he “supports” the police.” In contradiction, before when he spoke to the people of the left wing and even more so when he spoke to those of the radical, violent Marxist left wing, as Antifa and BLM, Biden told them that if he becomes President he will work to defund the police.
Of course, the real Biden will defund the police force.
Joe Biden with his intention, if elected President, of defunding the police force proves that he a very stupid man who would be dangerous to the people of the USA.
One of the most senseless ideas of total folly is that of defunding the police force. This is because if the police are defunded that will suddenly be drastic increase in many crimes. As rapes and murders as well as rapes and murders combined. As well as arson there will also be a sharp rise in kidnapping and even torture of the murder of the victims of those who had been kidnapped. There will a rise in malicious vicious assaults and battery on many law- abiding peaceful innocent people.
This tragic truth is that there will also be a sharp and terrible rise in as violent break-in’s and looting of many homes and business many other and more heinously evil crimes will be committed by many hooligans if the fool and insane idea of defunding the police is actually carried through.
For safely, security and the protection of the public a well-funded and supported police force is both important and necessary
Rarely says
Relax Walter. No one is going to defund the police — I preomise you.
Feel better?
gravenimage says
“At Least 13 Cities Are Defunding Their Police Departments”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/08/13/at-least-13-cities-are-defunding-their-police-departments/#4dcf1c8f29e3
“At least 13 U.S. cities have cut funding from police department budgets or decreased officer numbers with several more in the process…”
This is happening in LA, NYC, Seattle, Baltimore, Austin, and Washington, DC. The City Council in Minneapolis has pledged to disband the police entirely.
This is also happening right where I live:
“San Francisco approved a $120 million cut to the police and sheriff’s department, promising investments in Black residents, and Oakland passed its own $14.6 million budget reduction…”
Oakland and Berkeley are both moving to farm out dangerous traffic stops to unarmed civilians.
Rarely’s claim that none of this is happening is mistaken at best.
b.a. freeman says
walter, the idea behind “defunding” the police is to promote a *national* police force. if cities and states cannot be 100% successful in not hiriing racists, misogynists, islamophobes, and knuckle-dragging, beer-swilling bible-thumpers, then all such armed groups should be disbanded and replaced by a *national* police force controlled by the *national* government. and as we all know, the national government in the u.s. has the best interests of u.s. citizens in mind.
but wouldn’t a national police force be unconstitutional? well … we *already* have the FBI, whose agents are armed and can arrest anybody anywhere within the borders (such as they are) of the u.s. the FBI was founded in 1908, and apparently, there were some congresscritters who didn’t like it from the start, but nobody ever seems to have challenged its constitutionality. thus, president comma laharris wouldn’t even have to pack the SCotUS to create a national police force. and once we *did* have a national police force, the State would have little difficulty putting people into re-education camps. the u.s. constitution would have the same effectiveness as any of the multiple soviet constitutions, or of any of the party platform documents of u.s. political parties (i.e., zero influence, let alone legal control), and the USSA would be born.
DazzleMe says
Yes indeed!! B.A.
Walter Sieruk says
The message is so very important the is should be reiterated . The message is that this coming national election this November is a very clear and obvious choice between God and Evil.
It’s President Trump with God and the US Constitution or either Joe Biden with his violent Marxist organizations, Antifa and BLM, with their Red/ Green alliance. Likewise Biden is also backed by Iran, that fact alone revealing.
That this awful, Joe Biden, is actually running for the Office of the President of the United States of America is both absurd and unbelievable.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden “vowed” to install Muslims at every level of his administration actually means that , as President of the USA, he will make every effort to hasten the stealth jihadist infiltration into “every level ” of the American government as far as he is able to.
Of course the agenda of the stealth jihadists in this nation is the advancement of Islam with its Sharia law by the Islamic subversion of the US Constitutional law.
Therefore Biden is ,in essence, as true subversive the Constitutional government of the United States of America.
Joe Biden as President of the USA would be a disaster for this nation.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden, had promised to appoint Muslims to “every level” of his administration shows that he is even, now being influenced and manipulated by the stealth jihadists already in some power, be it by Islamic lobbies or bribes or other methods.
This Islamic power of the stealth jihad the US government will become worse if Biden does become President. This is because the weak and feeble minded Joe Biden will by controlled and influenced even more than now since more Muslims who are devotedly dedicated to the stealth jihad will in power positions in the US government.
Joe Biden is President would be nothing but a catastrophe for America.
Walter Sieruk says
Since Joe Biden has every intention of putting Muslims into every level of position in his administration if ,by hook or by crook , he become President of the USA ,this further explains why that on the domestic level the leaders of that villainous and dangerous terror organization Antifa with their Red /Green alliance strongly back Biden for President
This also further reveals why those stealth jihadists Muslims politicians Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, attempt to encourage all Muslims who are able to vote to go out their local voting center and vote for Biden.
Furthermore, on the international level it’s obvious why the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia funds support for Joe Biden. Likewise this is on reason that the Shiite Islamic “republic” of Iran has it in it’s interest “to defeat Trump” , as the movie/documentary by Dinesh D’ Souza entitled THUMP CARD exposes. For that feeble and weak-minded Biden will easily be manipulated by those in power in the ”mullah tyranny”, if Biden actually becomes President.
In conclusion , if Joe Biden becomes the President of the United States of America it would be a calamity for Americans ,a calamity for the American citizens ,a calamity for all other Western countries , calamity for Western civilization and a calamity for the world.
curious george says
“No rational person can any longer have any question about the corruption of Hunter Biden and his father Joe. Even the most skeptical must admit in light of the recent revelations produced by the New York Post and Breitbart that President Trump’s use of the term “Biden Crime Family” is completely appropriate.”
Joe Biden Cannot Be President – Time For The Democrats To Put “Country Before Party”
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/10/18/joe-biden-cannot-be-president-time-for-the-democrats-to-put-country-before-party/
Ole Pederson says
Just a suggestion, see what comes up when you click
http://www.antifa.com/
This one surprised even me!
(For the link to work it must be http: not https: )
I wonder why there are no posts or newscasts about this, even in alternative media.
(and who might be responsible about this)
gravenimage says
This has been commented on here before. The Biden campaign has claimed–probably correctly–that they had nothing to do with this. On the other hand, they have not condemned it, either.
b.a. freeman says
omg, that’s *HILARIOUS!!! thank U for the belly laugh, Ole!
seriously, however, i have to point out that *anybody* can re-direct requests to his website to another site. usually, companies use this technique to re-direct requests from one of their multiple sites to another, sometimes adding additional information. there is nothing to stop a third party from creating a website that points at a site neither owned or controlled by that third party; thus, this could be a “dirty trick” by a republican, or even by somebody like me.
Ole Pederson says
You are right, I googled it and found a few items about it so it is probably a troll with humour!
DazzleMe says
That is scary Ole Pederson!
curious george says
“The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination on Thursday despite a boycott by Democrats.”
“That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at the beginning of the meeting. “We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate.”
https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/judiciary-committee-hands-judge-barrett-unanimous-endorsement/
Walter Sieruk says
To repost but in a different way explains this political situation of this coming national election this November which is that its sad tragic to see that the best theDenocratric party can do then nominate that old feeble, weak minded man ,Joe Biden, to be their candidate for President
Whats; more than sad but literally traglic is what a total disaster Biden would be if he is sitting in the White House Office as President
For that would be tragic for the American people as well as tragic for America , all of Western civilization but Biden ,as,President ,would be viewed with joy by the Islamic world but a curse for Israel to have Biden as the Head and Chief Executive of the USA
Walter Sieruk says
During the second debate Joe Biden, again, accidentally revealed that is, truly, feeble minded. For Biden mean to speak about President Trump “the racist President in modem times.” , a totally unfounded and bogus claim, Old Joe used the name “Abraham Lincoln” instead the name “Donald Trump” Biden can’t even get the mane right of the man of who he meant to be speaking about. This is far from the first of many times that Biden became confused in his words. This indicates and confused mind. The United States of America does not need a man with a weak and confused mind a President
DazzleMe says
Amen Walter!