The Mother Country
A conservative blog for peace looks at the pros and cons of "the idea of America joining the (British) Commonwealth" — Anglosphere.
Labels: Albion, America the Beautiful
"A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today" — Christopher Lasch.
Labels: Albion, America the Beautiful
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I am always pained to have to cite the violently anti-Catholic Jacobin, Thomas Paine, in any decent way: but lest we forget: "Common Sense"
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/
The British, to their credit, at their best did give us Common Law, Monty Python, Burke and C. S. Lewis, and a sense of dignity under fire (captured in an artistically wonderfully way in the book and movie: "Remains of the Day").
But let us all be careful for what is being asked. Joining again with Airstrip One may not be as benign as kidded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtepuyvsGbg
[In a cheesy Austin Powers voice]: Ingsoc all the way, baby!
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