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So the answer is "No, JohnHurt did not claim that there were Confederate units filled with black soldiers." And I did not claim HE used those specific words. I claimed it was an an old historic southern myth that has long since been debunked by many historians. The mythmaking and historic...

Practically every other single bridge in the history of the US was made by the government. With very few exceptions such as the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. Why do you assume this one specifically will be a disaster or fiasco? I think the most recent big bridge reconstruction was the I-35 bridge i...

OK, sounds good. The quote below in its context seems to imply that JohnHurt had made some kind of a claim that there were Confederate units full of Black soldiers. I don't think that JohnHurt said anything of the kind. Second, the idea that there were Confederate units full of Black solders is one...

Reading comprehension is hard, isn't it? But for some reason you find it particularly difficult. Why is that? Quite rich coming from you... I am always happy to correct myself if I incorrectly mischaracterize what someone else here writes. Normally I quote what they write when responding to make su...

The Civil War is actually a good example of the sorts of lies that are told in support of war. Yes, you’ve expounded at length on why the acts of gross violence perpetrated by the north are OK as long as they were for a good cause. Reading comprehension is hard, isn't it? But for some reason you fi...

The fact ya’ll know about KN’s doggie, but somehow not about Commander, in the White House, tells the tale (of media influence): BBC / Joe Biden dog Commander bit Secret Service agents at least 24 times https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68366306 It can be fairly presumed, Commander didn’t bi...

I think I would sell anything I would buy. I'm feeling too lazy right now to think of examples but I suspect there are items I might purchase that are good and right in their proper place but that are misused often enough that I wouldn't want to sell them (not that I would say it's sinful to sell t...

I also agree with this point — https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/30/in-defense-of-dog-killer-kristi-noem/ A fascinating aspect of this “scandal” is to see how people apply a subconscious animal hierarchy to Noem’s story and against which they judge her actions. I have said nothing outrages American...

Including the dog incident in her book was a rookie political mistake. The animal rights lobbies are powerful. Gloating about shooting a dog while angry is only a "rookie political mistake" in the sense that it fails to conceal the flawed character of the author. I certainly wouldn't want...

Second, the idea that there were Confederate units full of Black solders is one of the oldest and shoddiest of historical myths. Actual southern historians have long dispensed with such nonsense. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/black-confederates-truth-and-legend or https://uncpress.org...