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 [Image]Interesting take on our country's founders and immigration by Ilya Somin at Reason.And David French on Christians and patriotism.What we get wrong about the Founders - Albert Hunt[Image]Brigitte sent this nice photo down from Washington.
True patriots are rebels, not bootlickers - Daily KosSamuel Johnson famously wrote in 1775 that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” In The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce made the appropriate correction: “With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.”[Image]Don't tread on me.Saw this beautiful red diamond rattler, crotalus ruber, crossing the road near my house the other day.