Unca Darrell

MAY 27 / Back atcha

UNCA D is getting hits galore today from this righteous, but ancient, blog post by . . .

MAY 22 / If you want to offend friends in the cultural left . . .

. . . start a conversation about Western Civilization that is neither ironic ("nice idea; we should try it") nor critical ("source of the world's misery") nor nonjudgmental ("China: just as good as us").

Such conversations rarely occur, of course, because those who disdain the civilization that forms the basis of their prosperity and security are obnoxiously loud, while those who recognize the superiority -- not the perfection; the superiority -- of Western Civilization have been taught to keep quiet about their eccentric, politically incorrect belief. 

Well. This very conversation starts in earnest at 7:00 p.m. tonight . . .

 

APRIL 21 / "Look to it, you Texans of today . . . ."

A bare account from The Handbook of Texas (reparagraphed) of San Jacinto, the battle that won Texas independence this day 176 years ago:

JANUARY 12 / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in . . .

. . . Bentonville, Arkansas, is well worth the trip. 

 More images . . .  

SEPTEMBER 13 / George F. Will on "Lochner"

ONE OF THE most important Supreme Court cases you've never heard of is . . . 

SEPTEMBER 11 / On a day when the mayor of . . .

. . . New York City has purported to read God out of the 9/11 commemoration ceremony, along with firemen (343 dead) and police officers (23 dead), let's take comfort, instruction, and pride in these godly words from . . .  

SEPTEMBER 2 / Nice quotation from Krauthammer

IT IS ONE of the enduring mysteries of American history -- so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause . . . 

NOVEMBER 28 / It is a vice so mean and low

THAT THE TROOPS may have an opportunity of attending . . . 

 

NOVEMBER 22 / Lilla / The Boomer revolution

WHAT THESE '68ers originally demanded was that America fulfill its own democratic promise, not that it take up a new revolutionary mission. The temple of the American democratic ideal had to be cleansed. A ritual cleansing began with the civil rights movement and resistance to the war, and was finished . . . 

OCTOBER 20 / Museum of the Great Plains

  

 

IF YOU EVER find yourself near Lawton in southwest Oklahoma, stop by the Museum of the Great Plains. The main exhibits are worth your while -- artifacts from Indian times and the arrival in the 1800s of white soldiers, traders, and settlers. But the best exhibit is . . .