A conservative blogger’s perspective on the Declaration of Independence.
Most blog readers, like talk radio listeners, gravitate to those sites where the host’s views mirror their own. This actually encourages over-the-top language, villification of the other side, and shoddy reasoning. Echo chambers tend not to reward nuance.
The title of Ralph Peters’ New York Post column today says it all: HEROES DON’T SHOUT.
Apparently, I missed the memo that everyone is supposed to apologize for semi-random events for which they have no control. My bad.
Yes, the Jack Nicholson character (Colonel Jessep) had some great lines and it was easy to cheer for some of them. But Jessup was a villain in the flick.