Lizzie Scalia Heaps Well-Deserved Shame

Lizzie Scalia Heaps Well-Deserved Shame January 13, 2014

on the impenitent Klansmen who edit what used to be US News and World Report for their amazingly scummy anti-Catholic bigotry.

Jamie Stiehm: You got Jefferson totally wrong. Now hear Lincoln:

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it, “all men are created equal except negroes.” When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, “all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty–to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.


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