FAMOUS QUOTES

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Sir Winston Churchill

OP-ED: No, the toppling of King George’s statue was nothing like today’s statue toppling

In July 1776, New Yorkers celebrated the first Independence Day by destroying a symbol that honored a leader once respected but lately denounced as an oppressor – namely, a two-ton lead statue of King George III.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (July 2, 2020)

OP-ED: Democrats’ anti-police bill will cripple local police and empower criminals

It may not be a plank in the official Democratic Party platform, but it’s clear that Democrats and their supporters want to eliminate state and local police.

THE FEDERALIST: America is in a cultural Civil War

This is the week America woke up to a moment of clarity: we are in the midst of a great cultural civil war.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (July 2, 2020)

Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2020. U.S. Park Police intervened and the statue was not pulled down.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: “We are proud of The Ellis County Press”

June 23, 2020   Dear Mr. Hatfield: This is to ‘follow-up’ on a previous memo/letter of comment I sent you a few months ago.

Everywhere statues are torn down by the mob, history promises people are next

WASHINGTON, DC – For millennia, King Mob has targeted societies’ icons with varied goals and to varied ends, and few things are more foreboding than his desecration of civic art.

OP-ED: CHAZ OR CHOP, ANARCHY IS ANARCHY BY ANY NAME

At its extreme, the defund the police movement is a welcome embrace of anarchy. Don’t take my word for it. Just look at the six blocks in downtown Seattle that the police and local government have ceded to protesters, where two shootings over the weekend left one person dead and two others injured.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (June 25, 2020)