It had been awhile since he had hosted his show, and I just knew his cancer treatments were taking a toll but that he would be back soon. I believe I was in denial, as I tried to reassure my wife that Kathryn was on to let Rush’s listeners know about his health status. Instinctively, she knew the news Kathryn was about to impart. 17, 2021, I remember turning on the radio to listen to “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” My wife was with me, and when she heard Rush’s wife, Kathryn’s, voice, she grabbed my hand and started to cry. Americans, as Barack Obama suggested, are not the world’s only exceptional nation, even if he utterly and embarrassingly failed to grasp what made America truly exceptional. The left-wing media tags him as “far-right.” Funny, they never tag anyone as “far-left.” His Christmas message indicates suggests that he subscribes to French Exceptionalism, but it should inspire the citizens of any country that embraces our divine rights of life and liberty (see: Declaration of Independence). Zammour is a proud French nationalist and ardent defender of Western Civilization. The proportion of America’s population (328 million) that is foreign-born (about 45 million, or 13.7 percent) is larger than France’s (a population of about 60 million with about 5.9 percent that is foreign-born). He’s often compared to Donald Trump (not kindly and not very accurately) since they seem to share the same general views on immigration – arguably an even bigger issue in France than in the United States. Head of the new “Reconquest” party, he’s polling around 14% currently in France’s 2022 presidential election. Today parents who allowed such independence would be arrested for “child endangerment.”Įric Zammour/ Getty ImagesYou’re forgiven if you’ve not heard of Eric Zammour. It is why I, as a 5-year-old, could walk a mile safely to school and return home safely. That is why in Atlanta during the 1940s and 1950s we did not have to lock our door at night, and boys and girls could be gone all day without parental supervision and be completely safe. It was part of most people’s lives, whether they were believers or not, and it regulated their behavior. In the days of my youth Christianity was still a potent force in America. Of course, we both attended Georgia Tech and we both worked at the Treasury Department under President Ronald Reagan. I guess childhood development can have similar effects when the experiences are similar. The remainder is descriptive of what has happened to America mostly since that earlier time and matches my views accurately. He and I are close in age and we both grew up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s so what he says in the first paragraph here is factual from the experience of both our childhoods.
The passage below I extracted from Paul Craig Roberts’ Christmas Column. At least, it doesn’t matter nearly as much as some other things. I am sure, however, that it doesn’t matter. Biden have some form of dementia? Probably, although I don’t know for sure. All the outrage about whether he has the mental capacity for the job is fun and easy, but I think it’s unhelpful at best, and probably even damaging to the American cause. They correctly view Joe Biden as a serious threat to America, but for the wrong reasons.
I fear that Republicans are now making a similar mistake.
But it was easy and fun, so this has been the focus of the Democratic Party for the past several years. I questioned this Democrat strategy from the start, because Trump won’t always be on the political stage, but Republicans will, and diverting the focus of Democrat voters from the policies of the Republican party to some jerk from Queens struck me as short-sighted at best. Even attacking their family makes sense – they’re evil, right? They call us “Trump supporters.” Once someone is labeled as a Trump supporter, they are considered to be so far outside the realm of polite society that no attack could be viewed as out of bounds. Democrats rarely criticize Republicans these days.