Articles by Herschel Smith

This comes from Kenny’s place, although I can’t locate the post now.  I think it’s good to know history, and military history seems particularly salient in these times.

General Cornwallis didn’t start the campaign in the South.  He began in the North, and when troop movement stalled, the British pivoted to Charleston where they intended to interdict imports coming to port.

They got bogged down in the South due to a number of things, including weather (hot and humid, leading to diseases for which they were unprepared), insurgents, and inability to rely upon loyalists.

The battle of King’s Mountain ended their hopes of turning loyalist troops into a strategy for victory.  We’ve discussed King’s Mountain at length before.

The “Supreme Court” did what I predicted they would do.  I was correct, though I take no joy in that fact.  At Instapundit, Glenn has this post up.  Most interesting to me isn’t the fact that the court rejected the argument, nor what the experts think about that.  It is the comments on the article, which are currently well over 1100.  A sample of them follows.

I’ve been pondering a reaction to this news. Fairly simple. It’s time to get serious.

How so? Whatcha gonna doo?

Insurgency.

It’s time to finally accept the fact that we have a corrupt Federal government that prosecutes not based upon the rule of law, but based upon politics. We cannot rely on what is right or what is legal to save us.

It’s a complete and total game changer.

Depends on how froggy Texas and the States that joined her get. If the noise about secession or Art I, Sec 10 — and war between the States — gets heavy: Expect it.

IF THE SUPREME COURT

will not uphold the Constitution, and the next administration is in office only through the open in-you-face rigging of a national election in a handful of counties in a handful of swing states, what moral responsibility do we have to follow SCT decisions and listen to the next administration?

None, I would argue.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
– William Tecumseh Sherman

SO be it. The Constitution is dead, no Constitution, no Republic. No Republic, no federal government.

Good bye all of my Instapundit/DISQUS comrades, time for war and I bid you adieu.

Civil War is the only solution now. The republic is as corrupt as 1936 Spain.

We’re in a new era. Rules are for chumps.

Welcome to dystopia.

For ideas on resisting tyranny, read Matt Bracken’s Enemies Foreign and Domestic book 1 and read up on history, such as Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower.

The GOP is DEAD to me. At all levels of government.

This country is something I despise now.

This is only a smattering.  It’s all very serious.  The American public has been placed in an awful position.

A few urban areas controlled by democrats pulled their pants down to their ankles, mooned the rest of America, and America is going to have to decide whether to take it, and if not, exactly what to do about it.

Circle the wagons.  This may get froggy.

Len Savage learned of this before I did, and sends the WSJ article, but I don’t subscribe, nor do I send readers to text behind paywalls.

UPDATE: I see that reader Ned sent me this as well.

I knew most of this already.  The main points are that you never get something for nothing.  A long barrel causes the .357 magnum to shine.  That round beats the .38 Spl by a non-trivial margin.  It does so in both the short barrel wheelgun and the long barrel (although more so with the longer barrel).

However, splits to followup shots, ability to control recoil, gun weight, concealability, etc., are all factors in making a decision on what to carry, and when.

News from St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS — A judge on Thursday cited improper fundraising emails by Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner’s campaign in disqualifying Gardner and her office from a gun case against Mark McCloskey, who with his wife pointed firearms at protesters outside their Central West End home in June.

Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II’s order said two fundraising emails that Gardner’s reelection campaign sent in response to political attacks before and after she charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey with felony gun crimes in July raised the appearance that she “initiated a criminal prosecution for political purposes.”

By now you’ve seen that the case of Texas versus the four states has been docketed and a response has been obtained from Pennsylvania.  In it, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro pulled his pants to his ankles and mooned Texas, the Supreme Court, and indeed every honest citizen in America.

Using strong language rarely seen in Supreme Court filings, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told the justices that they should “not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”

Seditious, he says.  Pennsylvania’s corruption and theft isn’t seditious, one must conclude.  Because reasons, so shut up.

Via WRSA, here is a list of pointers about the lawsuit that makes it unique.  As I’ve said before, anyone who believes that Biden legitimately won the vote is as dumb as a bag of rocks.

Here is a prediction: None of this will matter.  The Supreme Court is more likely to recognize that there are important issues, but point out that the state legislatures are tasked to supervise the electoral process, and they will be loath to step in because they’re cowards.  Of course, the state legislatures are all filled with cowards too, hence the necessity of the lawsuit to begin with.  America is a nation of cowards.

Thus ends the last attempt at an honest and fair election in America in your lifetime.  The electoral college meets soon, and after that, prepare at first for president Biden, and then soon after that, president Harris.

And after that, massive trouble.

This seems accurate.

Perspective.

As Christians move toward the annual celebration of Christ’s birth, it is vital we all reclaim Isaiah’s prayer of faith. We are Christians first, period. If we are Americans, first, Democrats first, or Republicans first, there will be no hope. If we place items like flags and guns, ideologies such as rights and perspectives on abortion, or trust in economics or defense of rights first, there will be no hope. Our hope comes in surrendering to God and being Christians in the service of our Creator. Ours is to serve Christ, and Christ alone.

I see.  So let me make this as clear as you tried to make your screed.

If you support the murder of unborn infants, you are not a Christian.  Period.  And if you won’t let a man defend his home and hearth against rapists, murderers and thieves, you’re no better than a child molester or a rapist yourself.

I hope that’s clear enough for you.