In a book due out Thursday, eminent scholars say it’s unlikely that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings‘ children, disputing a decade’s worth of conventional wisdom that the author of the Declaration of Independence sired offspring with one of his slaves.The Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings story was a smear job perpetrated by one of Mr. Jefferson's enemies,that modern, liberal, "tabloid", historians have picked up on to diminish Thomas Jefferson's stature in history,plain and simple.
The debate has ensnared historians for years, and many thought the issue was settled when DNA testing in the late 1990s confirmed that a Jefferson male fathered Hemings‘ youngest son, Eston. But, with one lone dissenter, the panel of 13 scholars doubted the claim and said the evidence points instead to Jefferson’s brother Randolph as the father.
The scholars also disputed accounts that said Hemings‘ children received special treatment from Jefferson, which some saw as evidence of a special bond between the third president and Hemings.
Musings on history,most especially on the War Between The States,southern culture and anything else that may tickle my fancy or riles my blood.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
"New Book Disputes Claim Jefferson Fathered Children Of Slave Hemings"
From the Washington Times:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
I Was Afraid This Might Happen
Over at Hot Air they are showing a poll done by Zogby which shows Rick Perry leading the GOP field by 41% to his nearest competitor Mitt Romney 12%.While I don't believe the exact numbers in this Zogby poll,the fact is undeniable,Rick Perry has taken over this campaign and the interest and excitement of his campaign dwarfs the others by far.
This is bad news if your a Sarah Palin supporter.Sarah needs to jump in the race now,before Perry has time to consolidate his support behind him,or I'm afraid it will be to late,if its not already to late.
This is bad news if your a Sarah Palin supporter.Sarah needs to jump in the race now,before Perry has time to consolidate his support behind him,or I'm afraid it will be to late,if its not already to late.
The Sun -Not Man- Determines The Temperature On The Earth,Who Would Have Known
We knew this through common sense,we were taught it in school.now science has proven it,the Sun -not man- is the leading cause in determining the temperature of the Earth.Lawrence Solomon explains:
The research, published with little fanfare this week in the prestigious journal Nature, comes from über-prestigious CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest centres for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories. CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, and that has now built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the Earth’s atmosphere.Global warming is a hoax!It is a plot by socialist to seize and take over Western economies and do away with free-market capitalism and institute socialism into our economies and they have virtually succeeded.Everyone who promotes this hoax -whether it be Al Gore,Barack Hussein Obama,or others- only have one solution for this myth,more government.In this new Green Economy they seek to create,only those who are well connected and are favoured by the government will be able to participate and prosper in the economy,those who are not must obey,if we want our government rations.Green has replaced red as the color of socialism and communism in the world.
In this chamber, 63 CERN scientists from 17 European and American institutes have done what global warming doomsayers said could never be done — demonstrate that cosmic rays promote the formation of molecules that in Earth’s atmosphere can grow and seed clouds, the cloudier and thus cooler it will be. Because the sun’s magnetic field controls how many cosmic rays reach Earth’s atmosphere (the stronger the sun’s magnetic field, the more it shields Earth from incoming cosmic rays from space), the sun determines the temperature on Earth.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
How Far The Mighty Have Fallen
From Yahoo News:
Obama on Saturday chaired a meeting at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, which is marshaling federal and local hurricane-relief efforts.It hasn't been that long ago-2 years in fact- that Barack Obama was king of the world,nothing was impossible for him,many in the media extolled him as god-like,hovering above the fray,looking down upon us like a god.Now-2 years later- his star has fallen,crashing and burning to earth,now just a mortal,not even average,but rather below average,a failure.Once he could generate a huge applause simply by blowing his nose.Now this former Titan chairs a meeting at the NRCC over seeing the response to- just like himself- an over hyped hurricane,just to remain relevant.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
American Spectator Dead Wrong On Ron Paul
While I disagree with Mr. Wood's opinion that Sarah Palin is a "light weight",it is a very good defence of Ron Paul against the smear piece in the the American Spectator.
Friday, August 26, 2011
The Smearing Of Ron Paul
I'm not a supporter of Ron Paul for POTUS,he and I agree on the massive size of our government and its need to be severely reduced and a return to constitutional government,but when it comes to the waters edge I disagree with his reduced U.S. presence in the world view- it wont lead to peace but more war.Having said this,I in no way believe Ron Paul's foreign policy is motivated by anti-semitism in the least bit,unlike Jeffery Lords at the American Spectator:
If you read this full article you will be hard press to find a quote from Ron Paul,much less a quote proving he is a anti-Semite.Most of the evidence is either from a author of a book that Ron Paul recommends,or quotes attributed to staffers,ex-staffers,or "Paulville."If you are going to charge that someone is a racist you should at least have direct quotes from them,not the quotes of some campaign staffer.
Also,let me deal with the term Neo-Confederate.The word Neo-Confederate has been a code word that progressive throw around to convey the image of Neo-Nazi's on the Confederacy,and this article proves it by trying to tie in anti-Semitism with Neo- Confederates.The absolute thing the Southern Confederacy was not were a bunch of National Socialists.I think they should reexamine their idol Lincoln if they want to see a National Socialist.
There's more -- much more than we have room for here. The Ron Paul campaign's "official blogger" Jack Hunter hates Lincoln but can't find his tongue with Confederate president Jefferson Davis suspending habeas corpus or 100% of the civil liberties of blacks -- aka slavery. Then there's Thomas J. DiLorenzo, whose arguments are recommended reading by Ron Paul. Here's Mr. DiLorenzo on Amazon.I would have expected this kind of smear campaign to have come from the Obama campaign and his protectors in the MSM,not from a respected conservative magazine.Who would have thought a conservative would play the race card before Obama?
The Ron Paul campaign is really about re-educating America to what can only be called Neoliberalism. Which, based on the evidence and writings of its supporters, appears to be a thin gruel of free markets and non-interventionism seasoned heavily with anti-Semitism, morally obtuse Neo-Confederates, and an outspoken contempt for both conservatism and conservative leaders past and present.
If you read this full article you will be hard press to find a quote from Ron Paul,much less a quote proving he is a anti-Semite.Most of the evidence is either from a author of a book that Ron Paul recommends,or quotes attributed to staffers,ex-staffers,or "Paulville."If you are going to charge that someone is a racist you should at least have direct quotes from them,not the quotes of some campaign staffer.
Also,let me deal with the term Neo-Confederate.The word Neo-Confederate has been a code word that progressive throw around to convey the image of Neo-Nazi's on the Confederacy,and this article proves it by trying to tie in anti-Semitism with Neo- Confederates.The absolute thing the Southern Confederacy was not were a bunch of National Socialists.I think they should reexamine their idol Lincoln if they want to see a National Socialist.
Monday, August 22, 2011
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