Films about Totalitarianism: A Series

 

Back by Popular Demand: "The Death of the Public Library"

Dowd’s essential belief is that not only do the homeless have every right to spend their days in libraries but that librarians should view their needs as a critical part of the job. He believes librarians should be trained to dispense Narcan. One of his seminars is called “Jerks with Homes: How to Deal with Members of the Public Who Are Being Jerks About Homeless Folks.” His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like, “Hey, I don’t care if you urinate on the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a no-urinating policy. Therefore, I have to ask you to stop."

Read the rest of The Free Press article by Zac Bissonnette.

Rick Atkinson on the Revolution

As the 4th Approaches

 

Here's the question every American should consider.

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True

We would be a better nation if more people visited The Hammock Papers.

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Professionalism

 

Our Creative Founders

 

"The Founders of the American Nation were one of the most creative groups in modern history. Some among them, especially in recent years, have been condemned for their failures and weaknesses - for their racism, sexism, compromises, and violations of principle. And indeed moral judgments are as necessary in assessing the lives of these people as of any others. But we are privileged to know and to benefit from the outcome of their efforts, which they could only hopefully imagine, and ignore their main concern: which was the possibility, indeed the probability, that their creative enterprise - not to recast the social order but to transform the political system - would fail; would collapse into chaos or autocracy. Again and again they were warned of the folly of defying the received traditions, the sheer unlikelihood that they, obscure people on the outer borderlands of European civilization, knew better than the established authorities that ruled them; that they could successfully create something freer; ultimately more enduring than what was then known in the centers of metropolitan life."

Sales Pitch from H.M.S. Pinafore

 

Big Decision

SCOTUSblog on the birthright citizenship decision of the Supreme Court.

Track It Down!

 

The official Execupundit Novel of the Year - Pilate's Magician - is at:

• BookShop.org
• Thrift Books

And, of course, Amazon.

We're eagerly awaiting news regarding Barnes & Noble.

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