Dixie Rebel

  The book,  Lieutenant Dangerous , by Jeff Danziger  sounds familiar to many of us other Vietnam veterans. It’s interesting to me that he ended up as an ordinance officer in Vietnam replacing artillery tubes. Since I was in a heavy artillery battery, we had many tubes (gun barrels) replaced because heavy artillery tubes could not fire very many rounds. Heavy artillery tubes were large and weighed tons. The worst place for this was called Firebase Barbara. One tube exploded there, killing two men. Another replacement tube was being hauled up the mountain we were on by a huge truck, when almost at the top, the tube began to slip off the back of the truck. It did, and rolled down to the valley floor. I suppose it is still there.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans want to change American voting laws. The Democrats want to make it easier to vote and make it more difficult to confirm that voters are legally eligible to vote. The Republicans want to make it easier to confirm that voters are eligible to vote without denying any eligible voter the right to vote.   I favor the old-fashioned method of having every voter to personally to a voting booth in his precinct. He should have picture ID which would be inspected by poll workers to make sure that he is someone on their list of registered voters. The precincts should be small enough that they do not have to handle thousands of voters trying to vote at once, creating unwieldy lines and long waits. Americans voted like this for hundreds of years and can keep doing so. Black voters were discriminated against and prevented from voting, but not because they had to vote in person; it was because of other requirements imposed specifically to keep blacks from vo

I was stuck that very little of the media coverage of the recent 4th of July mentioned that the day celebrates the American colonies’ independence from Britain. All the criticism of present-day America and its racism seemed to hypothesize that America emerged fully formed from some dark womb of non-history, when in fact it was many years old and had already formed much of its nature from its years of colonization before 1776. The hatred of the 1619 project should be directed at Britain, which ruled the colonies in 1619. The 4th of July marks the independence of the American colonies from the oppression of the British king and his rule. To ignore America’s colonial past is not just revisionist history, it is made-up history to justify hatred of the white race. Despite what blacks claim, the first slaves in North America probably did not come directly from Africa, but from trade with the existing Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and South America, which began in 1

A recent blog by the Abbeville Institute was about the book I’ll Take My Stand, The South and the Agrarian Tradition. Google has a preview of the book which is missing a number of pages but still provides an oppotunity to see what it contains. Published in 1930, there are essays by twelve well-known Southern authors. Here is a link to the Google preview. A lot has changed since 1930, but these essays give some inkling of what the Old South was like after the Civil War and before wide-spread industrialization, a useful counterpoint to the seemingly ever-present condemnation of the South by liberal politicians and the liberal media. In Gone with the Wind, I see Rhett Butler as the representative of the New South, and Ashley Wilkes as the representative of the Old South. I’ll Take My Stand was the voice of the Old South, a call for gentility and grace, peacefulness in the face of industrialization It was made up of the voices of twelve Southern writers, including the poets from The Fugi

Facebook has kicked the Abbeville Institute off its platform.  This is an offence against free speech.  The Abbeville Institute is not a crazy, rabble-rousing place from what I can tell by the articles it publishs.  They are supporters of the old South, but this is not a criminal offense.  There are probably a few crazies who attach themselves to it, but this is true of any organization, including Black Lives Matter, the American Legion, the Brookings Institution, and the Democratic and Republican Parties.  Facebook appears to have a political agenda that it is forcing on the United States, as Pravda and other Communist media did in the old Soviet Union.   The book 1984 is relevant today; it has just taken us a few more years to reach its description of the political situation than George Orwell expected.   Mark Zuckerberg has become “Big Brother” whether he wants to be or not.   The First Amendment of the Constitution Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of re

 The furor over the Confederate flag being carried by one of the invaders of the US Capitol is overblown.  Many more invaders were carrying American flags and using them as weapons, compared with one individual apparently walking quietly through the halls with a Confederate flag.  The man with the Confederate flag should not have been there, but it looks like his offense was considerably less than many of those with American flags.  Nevertheless, the Confederate flag photo has been highlighted because commentators believe it represents some kind of evil, like a Nazi swastika.  This is unjustified.  The men who fought under the Confederate flag did not kill blacks; they killed white men fighting for the Union army.    Some black men fought for the Union and were killed along with their white colleagues, but that had nothing to do with their race.    To imply by comparisons with Nazi paraphernalia that the Confederate flag is a symbol of genocide is simply wrong.    It was a battle flag

It is sad that Black Lives Matter has made such a point of honoring George Floyd.  He is a human being and should not have been killed by the police.  However, he was a convicted felon for a violent crime, in addition of being a drug user, a poor father, and generally a failure in life.  He was being arrested for committing a crime while being high on drugs.  He was a drag on the US economy and a bad example of the human race.  The fact that he is being held up to such esteem by the black race indicates what a terrible state the black race is in.   There are many wonderful black individuals, but the black race looks pretty awful.   Africa is a failed continent, populated by the black race.   Why haven’t blacks made something of Africa.   Latin America is dark or brown because of the black intermarriage, and it too is a failed continent compared to the Northern Hemisphere.   Is the Southern Hemisphere failing because if is Southern, or because it is mainly populated by black and brown