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Paul Yarbrough

Some Thoughts From An Old Man

2/11/2024

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It has long (in my thinking) been the case that pitiful little men like Victor Davis Hanson, Gary Bauer, Clay and BucKO, Jesse Waters, Kilmeade, Hannity et al and the army of pseudo-conservatives posing as “men” over at the Fox “News” Channel, and such other timid shelters, are the sweet little tulips of manhood that are great authors of nonsense simply because honor and honesty are less profitable and often require great strength.

Like the tulips that they are, they feed off of manure. So, they produce pretty colors and they smell good. But that’s about it.

Oak trees get nature’s treatment. They are fed from the soil which is in turn fed with rain and lightning.

But from strong oak comes men like Jackson, Lee and Davis, even courageous Yankees like MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower; all beautiful and emboldened with honor, and structured with strength---colors and smells be damned.

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Clyde N Wilson
2/12/2024 04:56:15 am

Though Patton was born in California, we can surely claim him as Southern.

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William E. Shofner
2/13/2024 07:54:52 am

As many of us know, Patton's namesake, Col. George Patton, Sr., was Patton's grandfather; who fought and died for the C.S.A., along with, I believe, five of his six brothers. Few have stronger claims to the South than Gen. Patton.

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    Paul Yarbrough has written several pieces over the last few years for_ The Blue State Conservative, NOQ, The Daily Caller, Communities Digital News, American Thinker, The Abbeville Institute, Lew Rockwell _and perhaps two or three others. He is also the author of 4 published novels (all Southern stories , one a Kindle Bestseller), a few short stories and a handful of poems. 

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