POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning all things political ...

• I have not been a fervent supporter of Bush 43 since the end of his second year in office, his unbridled spending and repeated failure to veto disturbed me .... however, we're about to draw the drapes on the Bush mausoleum and forget this somewhat unpleasant component of our history.
  
  But along comes Philip Klein with a well-written and well-justified tribute to one of the lamest ducks in that history. [American Spectator]

• This may put the quietus on Hillary's confirmation as SOS ... one that even Slick Willie may not be able to circumvent. [FOX News]

• More effort to lay war crimes at the feet of Bush 43 and those in or formerly in his administration. [Classical Values]

• Now this is disturbing ...

  Government investigators digging into the grim hidden history of mass political executions in South Korea have confirmed that dozens of children were among many thousands shot by their own government early in the Korean War.

  And there's apparently evidence our military was complicit in some of the horror! Damn! [Yahoo! News]

• BREAKING: The United States of America started the Pacific part of WWII. [Maggies Farm via Dan Ford]
  

• Ezra Levant offers a timely reminder of John Milton's relationship to freedom from censorship ... "give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience." [Financial Post; Ezra Levant]
  


• "I thot I saw a Twitter Bird? I did! I did! I saw a Twitter Bird." Conservatives Unit! [TCOT; h/t Urban Conservative]

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OBITUARY: Honor due a hero from two nations!

We tend to fall short when it comes to honoring our war veterans ... during all wars; and I'm as guilty as the next. But Medal of Honor winners have always held a special attention for me. Since I currently pastor in Mexico, I was caught by the following report from The Arizona Republic.

Silvestre Herrera, 91, a Mexico-born recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, died Monday at his Glendale home, authorities said.

Herrera, who rose in courage and earned a place in history, also wore Mexico's highest honor for valor on the field of battle, making him the only person to earn both.

In 1945, Herrera, an Army private from Arizona, was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving his platoon from machine-gun fire near Mertzwiller, France, not far from the German border.

The private first class with the 36th Infantry Division took out one emplacement, then charged through a minefield toward a second, losing both feet to explosions. The entire eight man German crew threw down its weapons and surrendered.

Visit the Army's "full list" of WWII (g-l) here to see Herrera's official citation.

What people dont see in the photo at the top-left of this post is President Truman congratulating Herrera for his heroism; what is also not seen is the wheelchair this Mexican-American hero had been confined to as a result of his heroism.

Medal of Honor, Silvestre Herrera

ANTISEMITISM: What's in your closet?

You just never know until the Fat Fraulein sings!

Adolf Hitler, the most notorious champion of Richard Wagner and “racially pure” German music, banished Jewish and Russian musicians from the concert halls of the Third Reich — but apparently listened secretly to their work.

New light has been shed on the Nazi leader’s musical tastes by the discovery of what are said to be a hundred of his gramophone records found in the attic of a former Soviet intelligence officer, Lev Besymenski.

“There were classical recordings, performed by the best orchestras of Europe and Germany with the best soloists of the age,” Mr Besymenski said in a document explaining how the records came into his possession.

The 86-year-old, who helped to interrogate captured Nazi generals, died this summer.

Heilige Kuh! Die ist eine feine Geige! I guess we could say, "Roll over Bethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news!"

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Matt Castille

Classical Music, Hitler, Hypocrisy,
Judaism, Music, WWII