tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71216112024-03-07T22:11:30.573-05:00Dum Spiro SperoThoughts, ponderings, opinions and occasional rants and screeds on a myriad of topics that pertain to the South and South Carolina - our liberty and the dream for the Republic our forefathers envisioned.El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-56079407368000138842019-03-15T13:36:00.001-05:002019-03-15T13:36:21.652-05:00Another Illogical Attack on Calhoun
This time it seems the statistically insignificant gaggle of hurt-feeling types want to change the name of the Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University.
200 students and alumni out of hundreds of thousands sign this petition and it makes the news. We have simply lost the ability to think about things critically!
I suppose this only ends when America has no historical figures ofAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-46982964554679925472018-07-26T17:23:00.002-05:002018-07-26T17:23:51.842-05:00The Failing Liberal Agenda
The Twentieth Century was marked by the rise, fall and struggle of three ideologies, Fascism, Communism and its cousin Liberalism. In the wake of WWI, the old order of princes and kings was thrust asunder, fundamentally changing the system in place since the Peace of Westphalia. Woodrow Wilson, that great meddler, used the newfound power of the United States to not only usher in theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-70294347846021101182018-07-16T21:30:00.001-05:002018-07-18T00:44:42.638-05:00What If I am Wrong?
by Barry Lee Clark
I began blogging in 2002, occasionally I look back at some of the topics and subjects and realize I have been absolutely wrong on some matters. These generally relate to specific policy matters or predictions where some policy may or may not have gone. This is to be expected. If I were correct on every geopolitical issue I have ever blogged about, there Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-1086868507660602672018-07-16T21:07:00.000-05:002018-07-16T21:07:24.920-05:00Why They Hate Us-Part II
Many Muslims term the United States as the Great Satan. Americans puff up at this claim. Our Friends in South Korea view us disdainfully, Americans look at them as ungrateful. Mexicans consider the US to be a belligerent bully that has invaded and robbed Mexico of her lands. A dozen other countries can make similar claims to US militaristic aggression.
My topic here is US cultural aggression El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-1155467700038649892018-07-16T17:47:00.000-05:002018-07-17T10:23:44.802-05:00chez Nadezhda :: Reasserting US Hegemony: Russian rollback, Chinese containment and Iranian regime change
Back in 2005 I wrote three pieces that met with a lot of read resistance concerning one of the real neoconservative goals for invading Iraq. (Why Iraq, One More Piece on China, Email Responses)
My original theory held that the invasion of Iraq was part of a greater strategy, one of containment of an up and coming peer competitor, China. The excerpt below discusses the multi-faceted necon foreignEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-53453354905300022472018-07-09T13:00:00.002-05:002018-07-09T13:05:43.447-05:00How to Protect Your Children from Liberal Public-School Indoctrination
How do you protect your children from the toxic influence of the liberal and amoral worldview predominate in the education system? Conservatives wrestle with this sticky problem as a policy and personal matter. School, choice, homeschool, private school, getting involved with the PTA are all methods we advocate for and utilize in this noble cause. The problem, for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-27157153069178245682018-07-02T19:17:00.001-05:002018-07-02T19:17:09.822-05:00America Divided
America’s Great Cultural and Political Divide
POSTED BY: BARRY JULY 2, 2018
America is more divided culturally and politically than at any time since the 1850’s. Real and authentic dialogue does not occur and violence and the threat of violence increase daily. We are on a precarious path with potentially dangerous outcomes. (read more)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-27979114401708944542016-03-07T17:23:00.002-05:002016-03-07T17:23:20.154-05:00It’s a sad day for South Carolina independence
Oh, the shame.
South Carolina has become a welfare state, adding to the federal deficit and the tax burden our children will inherit. Our children. Good thing we have all this sand so we have somewhere to stick our heads.
read more by Brian Hicks at The Post and Courier
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-47267631357841655272016-03-06T13:56:00.004-05:002016-03-06T13:56:38.084-05:00State of Surprise: Pat Conroy’s love letter to South Carolina
"There it is again – what you get over and over if you surrender yourself to South Carolina – that great surprising thing. This grand book is simply one more example of it. State of the Heart reminds us of what is best about South Carolina and her many gifted writers, the monumental power of this place to shape our memories into stories and then our stories into art." (via The State)
Rest in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-92080310525900938892016-03-01T20:09:00.000-05:002018-07-09T13:03:57.560-05:00The Calhoun Institute Homepage
The Calhoun Institute website is up and running and the first edition of The Calhoun Review is published.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-57059569602370881122016-02-22T00:32:00.003-05:002016-02-22T00:32:40.896-05:00Secessionist Papers
Secessionist Papers - Book 109 pages
Abstract
Why is it important to talk about secession? Few people that believe secession is a legitimate political theory, right and recourse also believe that in a practical sense it is achievable, reasonable or even preferable. Devolution is a complicated matter and requires a more or less united political will among a people within a region Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-39585401454949142742014-04-21T19:01:00.001-05:002014-04-21T19:01:40.107-05:00Natural Law and Secularism
“Man is known to exist in no part of the world, without certain rules for the regulation of his intercourse with those around him. It is a first necessity of his weakness, that laws, founded upon the immutable principles of natural justice, should be framed, in order to protect the feeble against the violence of the strong; the honest from the schemes of the dishonest; the temperate and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-67804163451295644522014-04-20T22:00:00.000-05:002014-04-20T22:00:00.099-05:00South Carolina farm launches rent-a-chick program for Easter
This is ingenious
A farm near Charleston, S.C., has set up a rent-a-chick program that lets kids — or empty nesters — look after their very own baby chicks.
Legare Farms on Johns Island charges $25 for the chance to raise the adorable birds for two weeks.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/south-carolina-farm-launches-rent-a-chick-program-easter-article-1.1761331#Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-71753378357488613332014-04-11T00:28:00.001-05:002014-04-11T00:28:56.041-05:00September 6, 1984: Ron Paul Warns of Surveillance State - Don't Ever Say...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-51858909517336068432011-11-11T16:36:00.000-05:002011-11-11T16:36:10.497-05:00Another Sheriff that Understands His DutyUnder common law this is exactly what a county sheriff is supposed to do:
Otero County decided to put the State law to thin out the forests to the test and notified the feds. The US Forest Service threatened to ARREST Congressman Steve Pearce and Otero County Commissioners! Otero County Sheriff Benny House reportedly advised the feds that if they made any Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-90723336283825741802011-11-08T20:55:00.002-05:002011-11-08T23:51:45.908-05:0016 Nations Want to Challenge SC Immigration LawI will not discuss the pros and cons of this law. I do have thoughts on the notion of a foreign nation suing a state. How could they have standing, how is such constitutional?
Well under article III Section 2 such a circumstance is authorized by the Federal Constitution -
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-83586156359979278352011-11-08T03:48:00.001-05:002011-11-08T03:49:42.546-05:00Dr. Clyde N. Wilson on RebellionA Little Rebellion
Scandalously, Thomas Jefferson once wrote to James Madison, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and is as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” writes Dr. Clyde N. Wilson -retired professor of History at USC and one of my favorite authors.
He continues:
Persistent misrepresentation of Jefferson’s words here and elsewhere by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-11809205422309086562011-11-06T14:13:00.001-05:002011-11-06T14:27:15.102-05:00Burglars Target Shop While Owners at HospitalANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. -- While John Olihan was at his wife's side during a chemotherapy treatment, burglars targeted his boat repair shop on Highway 187.
The burglary at J's Marine was the second time thieves had broken into the shop. Twelve hours earlier, Kristopher Paul Liebe was arrested after Anderson County deputies said Liebe was spotted with burglary tools on the property....
Read more: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0Anderson, SC, USA34.5034394 -82.65013320000002834.4654064 -82.693847200000022 34.541472399999996 -82.606419200000033tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-4655844526519269082011-11-05T19:16:00.001-05:002011-11-05T19:17:42.491-05:00Upstate Power GrabFrom South Carolina Campaign for Liberty
Friends of South Carolina,
How does an obscure study by an out of state think tank become the law of the land?
In South Carolina, Hugh Leatherman teams up with his Democratic buddies to create a new government agency tasked with implementing it, that’s how!
You read that right! Republican (in name at least) Hugh Leatherman teamed up with seven Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-28517404536203615772011-11-03T23:43:00.000-05:002011-11-03T23:43:29.578-05:00On Display at The University of South CarolinaMary Boykin Chesnut’s diary offers a first-person view of the Civil War from the upper reaches of Southern society. She details what it was like to sit atop a house in Charleston, S.C., and watch the shelling of Fort Sumter, and, later, what it was like in Chester, S.C., to receive news of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, with “the Elite of the Confederacy — going and coming — and when Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-5208022826074011672011-11-02T21:14:00.000-05:002011-11-02T21:14:35.797-05:00Jay Sekulow on Fox News Discussing DOJ's Lawsuit Against South CarolinaLet us hope our government stands firm against the Feds.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-17830285716429015292011-10-31T20:01:00.001-05:002011-11-12T21:51:05.391-05:00SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. -- The Spartanburg County Sheriff is known for speaking his mind, and at a news conference on Monday, he didn't hold back his anger and frustration after a woman was attacked in a park over the weekend.[…]He said Lance should not have had the right or opportunity to "violate a good, upstanding woman."
[…]Wright said, "It's too bad someone with a concealed weapons permit Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0Spartanburg, United States34.948990928135409 -81.93603553125001334.641183928135412 -82.193402031250017 35.256797928135406 -81.67866903125001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-42027338892896107972011-10-30T22:49:00.004-05:002011-10-30T22:57:00.917-05:00Three and Twenty Fire Department receives $190,000 grant
Powdersville Post
— The Three and Twenty Fire Department is soon going to have a brand new tanker.Sen. Jim DeMint’s office recently announced that the fire department would be receiving a $190,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters program. The fire department will also chip in another $10,000, according to Three and Twenty Fire Department volunteer fire Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0The Upstate, United States34.746972783732936 -82.58972205468751334.441664783732939 -82.928762554687509 35.052280783732932 -82.250681554687517tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-200605647841136822011-10-30T17:34:00.002-05:002011-10-30T17:34:43.668-05:00Puppy Spotted On Boxcar Rescued, Finds New Home in South CarolinaLIBERTY, S.C.-- A black Labrador puppy has a new home in South Carolina after being rescued from the top of a freight train.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/puppy-spotted-on-boxcar-rescued-finds-new-home-in-south-carolina/#ixzz1cJ7KfBTp Not all news is bad news!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742473024741515447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7121611.post-57419975085287088752007-12-22T03:38:00.000-05:002007-12-22T03:41:22.855-05:00Lakota NationOn 20 December 2007 the Lakota Nation took the first steps toward reclaiming their independence - we should all be inspired and provide support and prayers.Read MoreEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0