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The National Park Service recently decided to remove a statue of William Penn, founder of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, from a park in Philadelphia. But apparently owing to the outcry, this plan was canceled. Now for some fallout from the cancellation of the cancellation. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published January […]
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William Penn founded Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. But the Biden administration was going to cancel Penn by removing his statue from a park. See my blog entry explaining that here. But then, suddenly, the cancellation has, thankfully, been cancelled. See the National Park Service announcement about that here. So Penn’s statue stays in the park. Allan […]
The Ozarks, a 47,000 square-mile region in southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, part of eastern Oklahoma and the southeast corner of Kansas, is a unique, distinctive and picturesque region. Like the rest of the country, it’s undergoing ideological and demographic change. NOTE: The painting at the top of the article, Union Refugees, by George W. Pettit,1865, […]
For years it’s been said that high levels of immigration are nothing to worry about. After all, we’re reminded, the proportion of the foreign-born population is still lower than it was during the Great Wave Era. That was true, but we are now reaching the 15% milestone, thus surpassing the level of the much-romanticized Ellis […]
Confederate statues should be taken down, we’ve been told, because the Confederates were ”traitors” and ”losers.” Confederate statues were canaries in the coal mine. Now all American history, and with it the legitimacy of the American nation, is under attack. A recent target: General “Mad Anthony” Wayne of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. For the […]
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They want to delegitimize the historic American nation, and across the pond they’re doing the same to the Mother Country. In Cambridge University, no less. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published June 6th, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
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Historically, Spain has a massive influence on Mexico: the language, the culture, the religion, and the demographics. It’s obvious. But did you know it’s not all a one-way street? Contemporary Spain has also been influenced by Mexico. My two sons and I, who lived many years in Mexico, recently visited Spain, and we saw these […]
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Last month I visited Spain with my two sons. The plan was simple. We flew to Madrid, picked up a rental car, drove around the country, returned to Madrid, and flew back. Spain is bigger than California so of course we didn’t see it all. But we covered a lot of territory, from Andalusia in […]
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Some who support the removal of Confederate statues say the Confederates were traitors and/or losers. But now in San Jose, California, they took down the statue of a man who fought for the United States, on the winning side. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published April 20th, 2023, […]
A Vatican statement has repudiated the ”Doctrine of Discovery.” Does that mean that all Western Hemisphere nation-states are illegitimate? For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published March 30th, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
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