Passing Thoughts on Today's News

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Recently there was an article comparing the similarities of Alexander Hamilton's life and J.D. Vance's life, and generally when I see piece praising Hamilton I chuckle, more of a snort actually, roll my eyes and shake my head.   They invariably leave something really important out.  

 

Hamilton was a believer in a strong central government with more control over the states. He was the first promoter of crony capitalism, in favor of big business over society, and supported the Whiskey act, which taxed the sale of whiskey. The distillers in the major cities liked that as it would cut competition from the farmers, which was the goal of the Whiskey act.

Farmers turned their corn into liquor, which was easier to transport from the back woods than corn, and it was more profitable. That triggered the Whiskey Rebellion and Washington sent troops. All of which clearly violated the spirit of the Constitution, if not the letter. 

Why did he take that stand?  The Whiskey Act was passed in 1791, and the Constitution was completed in 1787, ratified in 1788, and became operational in 1789.  Just two years earlier, and their concern was to garner support for the Constitution from the business community.  In short, he sacrificed the struggling common man for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful.    Let’s hope Hamilton and Vance don’t have that much in common.

Here's an interesting piece comparing the Democrat's backstabbing of Biden and the literal stabbing of Julius Caesar.

Both power mongers, both corrupt, but Caesar's murderers were trying to save the Roman Republic, which wasn't going to happen since the Empire was getting too big for their system, and they weren't inclined to create a Constitution as that would have restricted the power structure of Rome. 

I always hate it when I see Caesar glorified, but considering the culture of Rome, he played their corrupt game better than his rivals, by being "far more" corrupt than all of them.  But here's the point.  If you compare the violence, selected rioting, protesting, public intimidation, and corruption being orchestrated by the left, it would seem they got their lessons from Julius Caesar and how he took power in Rome

The author left out a lot about Caesar, especially his rendition of the Gallic Wars, which seems to be as much self promoting propaganda as it is history, but his point was well made.  

The Democrat party is made up of Girondins versus the Jacobin in France's revolution, and Mensheviks versus Bolsheviks in Russia's revolution, both resolved by murdering the opposition.  In America, that's not so easy.  So, the solution for the conflict between the moderately radical and the extremely radical creates a potential for a third “Democrat” party with the disaffected Girondins/Mensheviks/RFK Jr. Independents/disaffected RINO’s, who have all now been relegated to bleating, whining, and groveling before leftist media hacks. 

But, like all leftist collaborations, it won’t last and America won’t care. The benefit is it won’t be long before we will start to hear blessed silence from them as no one will care what they have to say, including what’s left of the MSM, which is losing readers/viewers. 

A  couple of years ago I read Amity Schlaes book “Coolidge” which I highly recommend if for no other reason it highlights there were RINO's before they were defined as RINOs', and there were John McCain's before there was a John McCain, practicing all the slimy tactics we've seen in recent years.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest president of the 20th century, and has largely been forgotten…unfortunately.  As it turns out, 1928 was a seminal election in America.   Coolidge hated being President and refused to run for his own second term. was then elected and set a chain of events into motion that brought in  FDR's New Deal, the  massive spending, borrowing, the deep state, and the nation to where it is now.

For decades the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans was the Democrats wanted to take all our money, take total control of our lives, and do it “now”! The Republicans were willing to wait a week. Their goals were always the same, the only difference was in tactics, and who were going to be the beneficiaries.

Is it any wonder they hate anyone who’s trying to disrupt that gravy train. 

Here's a good article about the corruption of the media.   The truth is the media, which in days gone by was just newspapers, then radio, then television, were never neutral. The difference is in the many years before WWII the newspapers were openly partisan. Newspapers even had the name of the party they supported in their name. Everyone knew where they stood. After WWII they deliberately hid their bias and lied to America, and learned how to do from journalism schools.  They did it well, and Walter Cronkite was among the foremost leaders in hiding their bias.   But eventually they’re corrupt obfuscation of the truth became obvious with the introduction of the internet and the alternative media. Then the Cronkite acolytes started to fall.   was among those first big named “journalist” who was finally brought down with his lies, which he and he MSM still justify.

Truth and time are on the same side, and history isn’t kind or unkind, it’s just history. However, history can be forgiving or unforgiving, and history will not be forgiving of the mass corruption of the media, or Dan Rather.   

Here's an incontestable truth.  After 1920 communists/socialist infiltrated the newspapers, radio, Hollywood, the federal government, unions, academia, many of whom were Stalinist agents, and public education starting in the 1890's.  And we know that because of the release of the intercepts in 1996.   

That's history!  That's incontestable! And Joe McCarthy was right!