Tea at Trianon: It's Worse Than We Thought

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, March 12, 2018

It's Worse Than We Thought

From Allen B. West:

I just wanted to get this out and known as widely as I possibly can. This is how the left is going about getting illegal immigrants registered to vote in America. Through the motor voter law, they’re allowing illegals to acquire drivers licenses, and then automatically registering them to vote. We see this happening in California. And in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has come up with an “identification card” for “residents.” This card can be used as picture ID allowing illegal immigrants to vote in our elections. Here we thought that voting in our elections was restricted to citizens.

Leave it to the progressive socialist left to redefine that to “resident” or “driver.” We can no longer sit back and allow such egregious and lawless behavior and actions to go without consequences. The left in America has fully exposed themselves and we must recognize them for who they are and thwart their actions. Consider the recent billboards being displayed in Pensacola, Florida that refer to the National Rifle Association as a terrorist organization. Yes, if you’re an American that supports the Second Amendment, to the left you’re a terrorist. And why should we be surprised? A constitutional conservative grassroots movement, the Tea Party, was denigrated as an extremist group. There’s never a mention by the progressive socialist left about Black Lives Matter or Antifa, both violent domestic terrorist organizations guilty of assault and conveying threats against law enforcement — and funded by George Soros.

We’re devolving into banana republic status, and it’s time these leftist elected officials are held accountable, and spend some time in orange…and I’m not talking about Tennessee Volunteers colors. What happened in Pennsylvania is certainly the tip of a widespread iceberg, and I know a thing about leftist electoral corruption and cheating. This is tyranny at its grandest, and it has to be squashed. This is why the left promotes sanctuary cities and states, especially. This is why the left doesn’t embrace the American ideal of national sovereignty. They thirst for power, and will attain it by any means necessary. (Read more.)