The penultimate chapter of my recent biography, M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom, summarizes the enduring literary, philosophical, and historical contributions of his last two books, The Theme Is Freedom, and Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Digging into the audio archives of the Philadelphia Society, I found two talks Stan gave—one in 1994 that displays his theological insight, and a second around 2004 that reviews some of the untold history about Soviet penetration of American government during World War II, and its legacy for today (including how and why we no longer take internal security seriously).

In addition to some history you’ve never heard, you’ll get yet another sampler of Stan’s great dry wit, including his explanation of “why it’s bad to have Communists in your government.”

More of these to come. Stay tuned.

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  1. LibertyDefender Member
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    I don’t know what Stan would think today, but I think he might well join a lot of people right now who think the FBI has become corrupt, needs to be at least shaken up if not abolished and started all over again.

    The FBI needs to be abolished.  The entire organization, top to bottom, is fully corrupt.  The cancer has completely consumed the organism.  Anything short of complete abolishment, the cancer will inevitably and necessarily grow back to its current state.

    We need a disruptor in the White House, one who will actually abolish agencies.  By definition, no politician can be a disruptor.  We need the only non-politician President in US history to disrupt the entire executive branch of the federal government and abolish

    • the FBI;
    • the Federal Reserve Bank;
    • the Internal Revenue Service;
    • the Food and Drug Administration;
    • the Centers for Disease Control;
    • the Environmental Protection Agency;
    • the Department of Education;
    • the Department of Energy;
    • the Department of Commerce;
    • the Foreign Service; 
    • et al.

    And we need to stop listening to such simps as Andrew McCarthy who assure us that the rank and file in those agencies are all upstanding, honorable, patriotic stand-up, straight shooting, law abiding professionals.  Which rank and file FBI agent objected to

    • being detailed to local school board meetings where “domestic terrorists” were objecting to their daughters being raped in high school bathrooms;
    • the FOUR (4)  FISA warrants based on fraudulent information;
    • the bogus ALFA Bank data that Sussman sold to the FBI;
    • the pre-dawn, no-knock raid of Roger Stone’s house;
      • the leak to CNN so that CNN could bring a camera crew along;
    • the pre-dawn, no-knock raid of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home;
    • the arrest, handcuffing, shackling, and public humiliation of Peter Navarro for his refusal to respond to a subpoena issued by a Congressional Committee that does not even comply with Congress’ rules for proper formation of a Committee; or
    • any other baldly tyrannical actions taken, always against the right, never the left?

    Abolish the entire executive branch, and start all over again – with a cap on employment equal to 10% of 2019 levels.

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  2. RufusRJones Member
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    LibertyDefender (View Comment):
    being detailed to local school board meetings where “domestic terrorists” were objecting to their daughters being raped in high school bathrooms;

    The government has come up with some supposed “parents council” to mitigate the PR disaster. Like they are in the camp of these parents. Karol here says all of the groups cited are left wing crazies. You can see on the government website the list of the groups included. One of them was national action network which is Al Sharpton’s deal. lol 

    I assume she will have a column out about it pretty soon. I couldn’t find any other opinion pieces about it. 

    #vomit 

    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6307741535112#sp=show-clips

     

     

     

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  3. LibertyDefender Member
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    LibertyDefender (View Comment):
    being detailed to local school board meetings where “domestic terrorists” were objecting to their daughters being raped in high school bathrooms;

    The government has come up with some supposed “parents council” to mitigate the PR disaster.
    Like they are in the camp of these parents. Karol here says all of the groups cited are left wing crazies.
    You can see on the government website the list of the groups included.
    One of them was national action network which is

    Al Sharpton’s deal. lol

    That is so totally not funny. lol

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  4. RufusRJones Member
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    “Parents provide critical perspective, and they should always have a seat at the table whenever decisions are made that impact their children. And this is more important than ever in the effort to help students recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Anna King, president of National Parent Teacher Association (PTA). “National PTA applauds the Department of Education for launching the National Parents and Families Engagement Council and providing a channel for parents’ voices to be heard and considered. This is essential to help make sure the needs of students are met coming out of the pandemic and ensure every child has everything they need to make their potential a reality.”

    https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-creates-national-parents-and-families-engagement-council-help-ensure-recovery-efforts-meet-students’-needs

     

     

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  5. LibertyDefender Member
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    “Parents provide critical perspective, and they should always have a seat at the table whenever decisions are made that impact their children. And this is more important than ever in the effort to help students

    escape from a whacked-out mass murderer in Uvalde, TX.  Or in Newtown, CT (where your friendly neighborhood LibertyDefender was raised).

     [never] said Anna King, president of National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).

    National PTA may as well be the volunteer arm of the AFT and NEA.

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  6. RufusRJones Member
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    LibertyDefender (View Comment):

    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    “Parents provide critical perspective, and they should always have a seat at the table whenever decisions are made that impact their children. And this is more important than ever in the effort to help students

    escape from a whacked-out mass murderer in Uvalde, TX. Or in Newtown, CT (where your friendly neighborhood LibertyDefender was raised).

    [never] said Anna King, president of National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).

    National PTA may as well be the volunteer arm of the AFT and NEA.

    What on earth are they going to do to get anybody on the right to not think it’s a complete joke?

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