Posted on 02/12/2008 9:58:27 PM PST by icwhatudo
Just as business goes in cycles, as do seasons, so does politics. Someway, somehow, we’ve managed to muddle thru(an english attribute)for 234 years now as a free people. Yes, now we have our southern BROWN WAVE, the mexicans looking for a free ride and to steal, as do the europeans with their invading muslims. There are vast historical currents going on here, it leads to a HUGE crisis in the not too distant future because you have lunatic left obama or liberal back stabber mcvain as the only ballot choices. And yet, can they repeal the laws of Mother Nature? As in the no-something-for-nothing First Law of Thermodynamics....
Good news for a change!
Gingrich also worked in 1996 against Ron Paul — unsuccessfully.
Those troops were called the Maryland Line, and the state got its nickname “the Old Line State” from their bravery. A lot of people think the nick refers to the Mason-Dixon Line on the MD/PA border
I campaigned for Steele and thought he was a principled conservative. Now I know he is just a pol. He actually had a bit of a meltdown on local radio after taking heat for going to a Gilchrest fundraiser.
Shallow man!
Steele has fallen victim to the NY Times cocktail party crowd.
Didn’t know that, the Maryland Line, thanks. Where oh where could one find the bravery, the raw courage to die for liberty, the ultimate love to die for one’s friends, in Maryland today? As old as it is, this story of the Old Stone House in Brooklyn should be told and re-told in Maryland, esp school children who take their free lives for granted : freedom ain’t free...
From The Sacrifice of Delaware
Meanwhile, the Delaware Regiment and the Second Maryland Brigade had pressed forward in good order, capturing 50 of the British troops. When the North Carolina militia began to crumble, Gen. de Kalb called for the reserves. However, although the First Maryland Brigade had reformed their ranks under the direction of Adjutant General Otho Williams, the British poured into the gaps presented by the retreating Americans and swept away the reserves.
About 2,000 British troops then surrounded 600 Continentals in several groups. The brave deKalb rallied the men for several bayonet charges before they were overwhelmed. DeKalb fought vigorously and suffered 11 wounds before he fell to the ground, mortally wounded. He died three days later in the British camp at Camden. The town at the site of the battle is named DeKalb SC in his honor.
One group of about 60 (including Captain Kirkwood) fought their way out, and a few others escaped individually by fleeing through the swamp; the remainder died or were captured. The battle lasted about 45 minutes. It was the worst defeat suffered by the American Army during the Revolutionary War.
Even though it was a guerilla war on our side, just another rebellion in british eyes, it was tenacity and perseverence that finally won the day. We lost many, many people and battles in the Rev war for now well-known military reasons and yet it was the final battle at Jamestown VA that counted. That movie THE PATRIOT starring Mel Gibson says a lot about the Rev war, and brave men from Maryland and Delaware joined with other american patriots : Give me liberty or give me death. And Nathan Hale : my only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country. Where or where could we find such raw courage there today?
That is interesting, but didn’t James Madison at the Constitutional Convention deliver an outburst in which he called DE disloyal to the Patriot cause during the Revolution? DE had more Tories per capita than any other state, as I understand it. Still is full of Democrats.
I have never heard of that. It would be ironic if he did, given that Delaware was the First State to ratify the Constitution. I know Caesar Rodney, the famous "rider" on the Delaware quarter, had to be recalled to Delaware during the Continental Congress because his Patriot militia needed to fight Torie resistance in the southern part of the state. But I can't see how DE was any different than, let's say, New York, especially New York City, was.
Interesting. I had always tagged Steele as more conservative than the man he served under, "moderate" Bob Ehrlich, but now I discover Steele had actually endorsed Gilchrist, while you can go on Harris' website and see a primary campaign ad where Ehrlich openly opposed Gilchrist for re-election "because he's too liberal"
I'll have to remember this incident and rethink my views of Ehrlich and Steele in future elections...
Again, odd that Ehrlich gets it and Steele doesn't.
Steele was the former MD GOP chairman, so perhaps he had a closer relationship with Gilchrest and that accounted for the endorsement. In this instance, Ehrlich obviously had better judgment.
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