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FreedomFest Review

Day 1 Sioux Falls is bigger than I expected. Almost 200,000 people. Very nice downtown. Aside from a generally weird, smelly and unhelpful Walgreens clerk, the people are extremely friendly and welcoming. Economy is clearly booming here. Labor shortage is acute, post-Covid hysteria. Restaurants and shops have reduced hours and seating. A lot of very…
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Dishonest Abe

The American History iconoclasts are very busy these days, not unlike the Jacobins during the French Revolution, they switch seamlessly from guillotining statues to cancelling people. This is what the modern, Western left has become. While the sane and healthy rightfully lament that statues of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and yes even Frederick Douglass…
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Honestly Not Abe’s Stuff

This is incredible even for Illinois. The curators at the Lincoln Museum spent over $22 million for a collection of Lincoln artifacts to lure more drones obeisant to the Lincoln Myth to Springfield. Not only did these dunces not authenticate the pieces before the purchase, but the most prized artifact (second-class relic for most Americans,…
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Metanoia Debate: On the Removal of the Lincoln Memorial

Forget all of the hubbub about the decommissioning of Confederate memorials, the Ole Miss basketball team, etc. What about the Lincoln Memorial? Shouldn’t it be decommissioned, and unceremoniously at that? Hear an incredibly insightful debate on the topic here.