Saturday, December 25, 2004  King of America?
jinnderella said...  Baron, that is beautiful and true. I like
it very much. We were talking about Webb's book and Albion's
Seed at gnxp on the open thread, but i went to look and it's
scrolled off. The consensus is we are indebted to our
scots/irish ancestry for a lot of our genes.  Baron Bodissey
said...  If Webb is right, you don't have to have the genetic
material -- the Scots-Irish tendency spreads culturally.
Fortunately for me, I have Scots on my mother's side.  El Jefe
Maximo said...  This is an excellent post. I have always
contended that America is, however unconsciously, a profoundly
monarchist country. Public opinion ascribes quasi-monarchial
powers to the Presidents, despite the very real constitutional
limitations inherent in the office, and the circumscription of
Presidential powers by both court decision and the statute book.
Recall that so much of the American Revolution, at least among
elites, was about securing to Americans the "right