In May, 1863, one of the most significant battles in American history, was fought; the Battle of Chancellorsville, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E Lee, defeated the Union Army of the Potomac under General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker. It was significant for a number of reasons: 1-It is significant on a military level for it was an astonishingly stunning victory by Robert E. Lee, against all odds, an American Agincourt, a victory of the  few over the many. If you consider Robert E. Lee an American General, (and how can you not since his father was one of the great military heroes of the Revolutionary War) it was the greatest tactical victory ever achieved by an American General, even above MacArthur’s landing at Inchon. Lee’s victory was an American Cannae, Hannibal’s pitch perfect annihilation of the Roman Army. Lee matched Hannibal in audacity, tactical brilliance, skill and steeliness. Chancellorsville was  Lee’s masterpiece of Generalsh

    Shiloh was the first great battle of America's Homeric Civil War. The broad outlines of the Battle are simple; the Union Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses Grant  was bedded down near a Baptist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church. The Federals were attacked by Confederate forces under General Albert Sidney Johnston and Pierre G.T. Beauregard. During the first day, the  Confederates  made great headway but their General Johnston was killed; the next day, Grant aided by General Sherman counter attacked and won the field. Simple.....yet this is the Civil War, so it is all so Homeric. And being Homeric, the heroes and their fates are more important than the battles themselves. It is often said that Grant is the first modern General. This Blogger agrees; that being the case, the closest modern  General in comparison to Grant is the German World War I General,  Erich von Ludendorff; who was really good kicking the hell out of befuddled and backward Russian Generals but lousy when

 Below is a picture of a runaway black hole, consuming everyone in its path. That Black Hole is irrational , nay unscientific, to the extreme, yet there it is, existing. This Blog is irrational to the extreme, yet here it is.   This Blogger received an email a few weeks ago; in which, the writer  wanted to know if he could catalog his nutty beliefs in one Blog, before his demise. (who knows what she knows?).   Anything for a lady; but not in one Blog.   So we begin a series of Blogs on odd conclusions by Gerry Maxey.   AMERICA   and the ALMIGHTY The hand of God weighs heavy on the land; seen but not believed. Blame that on slavery and genocide -   America seems to be    a Divine experiment by a strange, and demanding God. On one hand, He goes Zeus on the Republic, by divinely intervening to insure the survival of the Republic; as in the cases of the DIVINE FOG; which saved Washington’s Continental Army, by masking its retreat across the East River from infamous  annihilat ion; by placi

On September 1, 2022, Joe Biden gave a speech at Constitutional Hall in Philadelphia; where the Founding Fathers gave the Republic, the Declaration of Independence  and    the U.S. Constitution.   In that speech,    Biden said the following:   “Ladies and Gentlemen, we cannot be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American; they are incompatible.”   Abe Lincoln disagreed.     In 1858, during the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Abe Lincoln said the following:   “I    am not preaching rebellion. I don’t have to. This country with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or  THE REVOLUTIONARY RIGHT TO DISMEMBER OR OVERTHROW IT.  IF THE FOUNDING FATHERS GAVE US ANYTHING, THEY GAVE US THAT.   …A. LINCOLN, 1858.”   Biden or Lincoln? Readers, who do you stand with? Biden on 9/1/2022 Lincoln, at the time of Lincoln- Douglas Debates

American Liberals and Globalists are having the vapors as they cogitate over why Trump supporters stand by their president, even after his defeat.   To answer that riddle, wrapped in a mystery sprinkled with enigma, Liberals bring in those experts on American Blood Memory: Ali    Velshi, Samantha Bee, Fareed Zakaria,  Anand Giridharadas, Mehdi Hasan, John Oliver, Maria Hinojosa, Andrew Sullivan, Jorge Ramos, and Rep. Ilhan Omar.     They collectively grasp the obvious; America is in decline; or as Mr. Hasan, in his best upper crust British accent proclaimed: Is America a failed state?   Those carpet bagging pundits believe that Trump’s enduring support is a reflection of that decline; when in reality, those supporters reflect a visceral, blood memory reaction to the decline.   They are not the decline; they are a reaction to the decline. Is America in decline?   Certainly. Because of malfeasance in Liberal Governance, America is about to join Argentina in that very exclusive community