tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8621255747326820766..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: On Coming HomeFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-35977035283837601682017-02-12T10:09:19.646-05:002017-02-12T10:09:19.646-05:00Perhaps my greatest blessing, early in life, is th...Perhaps my greatest blessing, early in life, is the appreciation of words, and the importance of craftsmanship in the using of them. When I watch year after year of the destruction of our language by the leftist thought-changers, I am disheartened beyond description. I struggle against them and the damage they do; thank God He gives me a Promise that we win in the end, victorious over that among other evils.<br /><br />Good wordology might be the main reason I keep coming back to your site, Fran... and the comment writers are almost always worth the read.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795222563523474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-75854861953267522272017-02-11T21:39:41.678-05:002017-02-11T21:39:41.678-05:00Fran:
This is one of your best, which is saying s...Fran:<br /><br />This is one of your best, which is saying something.<br /><br />First- "House of Orange" is one of Rogers' most profound songs. I have enjoyed his work for decades and recently acquired most of his recorded works; I am not surprised that we share a taste for his art. The song that follows is just as appropriate, perhaps more so- "The Mary Ellen Carter."<br /><br />Second- The Left, and those on the Right who also seek a war, had better both be careful what they wish for. They may get it, and long will the survivors rue it. I do not desire to see a civil war, no sane student of history would; the lessons of the former Yugoslavia are written in rivers of blood, clear for any to see who will. No, I do not desire a civil war, nor does any sane man. But we are moving closer to one, largely because the Left mistakes the Right's forbearance as weakness. If we are all very unlucky, we'll all find out how mistaken they were, and once the dogs of civil war are unleashed they'll not be leashed again, not easily.<br /><br />Tim Turner, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. We don't have the Founder's Republic. It's gone, and what is left is nowhere close to what it was. Where we go from here in this war of ideas is largely up to the Left. If the True Believers are foolish enough in their arrogance and willful blindness to initiate force in an effort to smash the remaining shards of that Republic, we'll all regret it. Those on the Right who ignorantly want such a conflict have no idea how utterly vicious and bitter such a war would be.<br /><br />With regard to all who seek the Light-<br />Historian <br /><br />Historiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-22369425833503929602017-02-10T23:59:48.971-05:002017-02-10T23:59:48.971-05:00Very well developed essay, Fran.
Much food for tho...Very well developed essay, Fran.<br />Much food for thought, there.doubletroublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378163493817522427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-12534745586565501052017-02-10T14:37:53.091-05:002017-02-10T14:37:53.091-05:00I think if the government didn't have so much ...I think if the government didn't have so much cash and favors to hand out, elections wouldn't get so acrimonious. In fact, if government was as small and limited as many conservatives and the founders envisioned, federal elections wouldn't matter that much.<br /><br />And if we were the original federalist republic envisioned in the Declaration and Constitution, any state that tried to run the vote-buying identity politics we have now would quickly find its working class had moved to another state.Tim Turnernoreply@blogger.com