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Happy New Year!<\/h1>\n
This has been a momentous year and it leads directly into a presidential election year.\u00a0 So much good stuff, it’s hard to choose but I’ll give you my opinions below.<\/p>\n
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Most Important Political Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n
Failure of Robert Mueller’s Investigation<\/p>\n
Naming of Special Counsel John Durham<\/p>\n
Inability of Impeachment to Lower President’s Poll Numbers<\/p>\n
The Haplessness of the Democrat Presidential Candidates<\/p>\n
Boris Johnson’s Election Triumph<\/p>\n
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Best Books Reviewed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Best Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n
American Nations \u2013 A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America \u2013 by Colin Woodard<\/p>\n
This book puts the social tendencies of the various regions of the United States in an interesting perspective.<\/p>\n
This was the final volume in the series (or at least the first “season” of the series) and did a good job of settling the present war that had been raging.\u00a0 But there are plot ends dangling in all directions and the next season must be imminent.<\/p>\n
Best Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n
Hell or High Water<\/p>\n
Most Important Cinematic Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n
ShatnerKhan I<\/p>\n
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Best Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n
03JAN2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves.<\/p>\n
Steve Sailer<\/p>\n
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15FEB2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
\u201cThe feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret Thatcher<\/p>\n
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18AUG2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.<\/p>\n
Isaac Newton<\/p>\n
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19AUG2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.<\/p>\n
Werner Heisenberg<\/p>\n
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07JAN2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it’s a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. “Atheistic humanism” became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today’s European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Steyn<\/p>\n
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23JAN2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.<\/p>\n
Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n
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24JAN2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
It’s not that liberals aren’t smart, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so<\/p>\n
Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n
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14FEB2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret Thatcher<\/p>\n
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04APR2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.<\/p>\n
Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
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26APR2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.<\/p>\n
Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
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29APR2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day<\/p>\n
The Man in the Arena as it is called,\u00a0 is part of a speech called Citizenship in a Republic made by Theodore Roosevelt in Paris, France on April 23, 1910.\u00a0 It’s well known but well worth requoting.<\/p>\n
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.<\/p>\n
Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n
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Best Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/p>\nButterflies, Sony A7 III, Sony 90mm F\\2.8 Macro Lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nflower, Sony A7 III, Sony 90mm F\\2.8 Macro Lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nButterflies, Sony A7 III, Sony 90mm F\\2.8 Macro Lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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