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Local Columnists
Once To Every Man And Nation Comes The Moment To Decide
- By W.H. Lamb
Note: A version of this article, under a different title, was published in The Times Examiner on April 13, 2020. Our “national situation” is even more precarious now than it was then. Those who deny that are either grossly uninformed, deliberately blind, or are in the camp of the collectivists.
I’d venture a guess that most readers of this beacon of truth called The Times Examinerknow at least some of the words to James Lowell’s (1819-1891) great 1844 poem—a 90-line masterpiece titled, “The Present Crisis”. It was first published in 1845 by The Boston Currier, written as a protest against the impending war with Mexico and as a condemnation of the then existing evil institution of slavery, which had been incorporated into the new Republic of Texas in 1836. In 1896, Garrett Horder (1841-1922), an English hymn writer, took Lowell’s epic poem and condensed it into the shorter but more familiar hymn—“Once To Every Man and Nation”-- that most Christians have always known. Both versions contain inspiring, beautiful, yet quite troubling ideas which have “pin pricked” my thoughts for decades. To a certain extent, Lowell’s words still stand as a “two edged sword” ready to condemn those of us alive today with their thrust into our complacency, as lines #26 through #30 eloquently proclaim:
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An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin and the Russian People
- By Winston McCuen - South Carolina
As a private American citizen, I write on behalf of patriotic Americans who desire - not war and death - but lasting peace and open trade and friendship with the Russian people and their government.
I write to you over the heads of the current American regime, which is unelected and illegitimate and lawless and warmongering and ideologically mad.
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The Last Days of Camp Douglas
- By Mike Scruggs
Confederate POWs Marched Out Singing “Dixie”
Official records of POW deaths during the Civil War on both sides indicated that about 49,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in 150 Prisoner of War camps. The major statistics are broken down in last week’s article, Union and Confederate POW camps in the Civil War.
Author Lonnie R Speer, however, in his 1997 book, Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War; covering statistics from 96 Union and 117 Confederate facilities which housed POWs during the war, found 30,218 Confederate deaths and 25,796 Union deaths, bringing the total to just over 56,000. According to Speer, 15.5 percent of the Confederates prisoners died, a ratio 29 percent higher than the slightly more than 12 percent of Union prisoners that died. Speer’s statistics may even be conservative. Speer has only the 4,454 official deaths for Camp Douglas, but historical on-site estimates from Confederate prisoners in the last days of Camp Douglas and modern counts indicate there are at least 5,600 Confederate graves at or near Camp Douglas. In addition, about 400 bodies of Confederate soldiers were recorded as shipped to their families at home. George Levy in his 1999 book, To Die in Chicago; Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-1865, has a whole chapter, “Lost in Chicago,” on the missing Confederate dead.
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Men Of “Harlech” – Will You Heed Me?
- By W.H. Lamb
“Men of Harlech in the hollow, Do ye hear the rushing billow,
Wave on wave that surging follow battle’s distant sound?
‘Tis the tramp of Saxon foemen, Saxon spearmen, Saxon bowmen,
Be they knights or hinds or yeomen, they shall bite the ground!
Loose the folds asunder, flag we conquer under!
The placid sky now bright on high, shall launch its bolts in thunder!
Onward! ‘Tis the country needs us, he is bravest, he who leads us,
Honor’s self now proudly heads us, freedom, God, and right!”
(Words by Mark Rutherford, from the film, Devil’s Brigade).
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Why Liberals Hate Christian Russia
- By Winston McCuen - South Carolina
A recent interview by Mike Krupa of Ambassador Chas Freeman and Colonel Douglas MacGregor showed these two masters in their respective fields — diplomacy and military science — touching on and striving to answer a deep question that only true philosophy can answer in full: In the Ukraine War, why are America's current political leaders fundamentally averse and opposed to negotiating with Russia to end the murderous conflict?
The answer to this question is not simple stupidity or simple ignorance of history or even simple failure by American leadership to recognize and foresee the inherent danger of escalatory warfare — by proxy or directly -- between nuclear powers.
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There Is No 'Moving On' From Corruption
- By Laura Hollis
A common sentiment expressed by some voters on social media these days is the need to "move on." This viewpoint seems to be particularly popular with those deeply desirous of a Republican candidate for president of the United States who is not Donald Trump.
They readily admit that Trump's policies were far better for the economy and view Biden's administration as disastrous. Some even acknowledge that social media censorship and changes to election procedures -- many unlawful -- cost Trump the 2020 presidential election.
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Railroads Are Overwhelmingly Safe, but Congress Wants More
- By Veronique de Rugy
After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10% about making the world better and safer. The rest is at least 45% theater and 45% catering to special interest groups. Further evidence for my assessment comes from the recent grandstanding in the U.S. Senate on rail safety.
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- Union and Confederate POW Camps in the Civil War
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